Skip to main content

DIY Wort Chiller

Image
By
We here at Curious Souls H.Q. are always looking for ways to save a buck or two. So, when shopping around online for a wort chiller for home brewing, we found the following prices:

So, off to the hardware store...
  • 3/8" (internal diameter) Vinyl Tubing (10 feet) = $4.15
  • Sink to hose adapter (varies based on your type of sink) = $4.79
  • 3/8" X 20' Copper Tubing = $24.13
  • Vinyl Hose Coupler = $2.49
  • Hose clamps (x2)  = $1.70
  • Band-aids (x2 or x3 or x4) = $1.00
For a total of $38.26 (pre-tax, no shipping), we decided to roll our own.

Here's how it went down...




And, of course, there is the joy of having made something all by yourself! Priceless & fun!



Comments

  1. Rich EllisJanuary 22, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    Very cool!

    Could you maybe bend the ends of the copper pipe down a bit further, so if you did get a slow leak at the clamp it would only dribble onto the counter, instead of leaking back into the wort?

    Also a tip for bending copper tube: roll it around something else with the radius you want, like a beer bottle or can of soup. That's what the techs at work do for rigid RF cables, works great.

    ReplyDelete
  2. JonathanJanuary 23, 2012 at 1:06 PM

    Good idea! I bent my input tube down around a Nalgene bottle and now it is below the rim of the brew kettle. I'm afraid to fiddle with the output pipe anymore since it has the kink in it. But, I'm hoping that since it is flowing from a smaller to a larger diameter, it won't be a problem.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Boeke Prospective City Analysis Matrix AND House Walk Through!

By
Several people have asked us how we picked Fort Collins as a place to live so I thought I would share the story with all of you. Or rather, the Matrix. Because that is how we decided. We called it the Prospective City Analysis and this is what it looked like (click to enlarge): Once we were mostly done filling in the Matrix (we had a hard time finding some city data), we sat on it for awhile and "tried out" the front runners in our heads. That would be why we told some of you that we were going to live in Durango...or Prescott...or Seattle...or Manitou Springs (a late entry after the Matrix was completed). But each time, something didn't feel quite right to us so we would move on to the next place on our radar, hoping something would stick.  And Fort Collins did. It didn't wither under the intense scrutiny that I put it under and when we got here to do our final "walk through", it felt right.  And that feeling hasn't gone away. I love that I can ge...
11 comments
Read more

Chickens Are Scarier Than Crows, Didn't You Know?

By
The garden is in!  If our Scarechicken does its job, we will soon have a nice crop of heirloom tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, green beans, basil, parsley and thyme! Huge thanks to my parents for their help getting the area ready. It was a jungle!
1 comment
Read more