Bear with me probrewers, I'm working something through in my head and need some guidance and your collective years of experience.
So we have a 10bbl brewhouse with 2 10bbl FV and 1 BBT. very small. We are building it out right now and of course cost is an issue.
Problem: I cant seem to find a decent used chiller on the market.
Solution: built a cold water chiller???
I was thinking of getting a 55 gallon ss container, filling with water and placing it inside my walk in cooler. then using a sump pump to pump this cold water to FV jackets to keep temps at proper temps.
We current bottle AND keg condition so we only ever get our kegs down to 50F, which i would think would be possible with walk in cooler temps.
I'm thinking in a few years (or preferable or months), when we are brewing at the new place, that we after we add tanks, it would be easy to drain jackets and get a real chiller in line...
Any thoughts??
Our bbt can get up top 25psi so we may even be able to carb via carb stone at 50F....
Thanks for the years of guidance.
Jason
So we have a 10bbl brewhouse with 2 10bbl FV and 1 BBT. very small. We are building it out right now and of course cost is an issue.
Problem: I cant seem to find a decent used chiller on the market.
Solution: built a cold water chiller???
I was thinking of getting a 55 gallon ss container, filling with water and placing it inside my walk in cooler. then using a sump pump to pump this cold water to FV jackets to keep temps at proper temps.
We current bottle AND keg condition so we only ever get our kegs down to 50F, which i would think would be possible with walk in cooler temps.
I'm thinking in a few years (or preferable or months), when we are brewing at the new place, that we after we add tanks, it would be easy to drain jackets and get a real chiller in line...
Any thoughts??
Our bbt can get up top 25psi so we may even be able to carb via carb stone at 50F....
Thanks for the years of guidance.
Jason
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