I need to know about the risks of running automotive anti-freeze in a glycol system. Is their a real risk of a cooling jacket leaking internally in a fermenter? What is the likelihood of a contamination of the beer. Are there any other issues with the use of anti-freeze in the cooling of fermentation and serving vessels or in paralell cooling systems for beer lines?
A hypothetical scenario:
Say a brewer takes over as head-brewer at a small mom and pop type brewpub and discovers that anti-freeze is being run to cool beer lines and the fermentation and serving tank jackets. Assuming that the anti-freeze is problematic as a coolant, what would remediation entail? Will the process disrupt the cooling of beer and fermentation? How expensive is the remediation and change-over to food grade-glycol?
Thanks in advance for your help!
A hypothetical scenario:
Say a brewer takes over as head-brewer at a small mom and pop type brewpub and discovers that anti-freeze is being run to cool beer lines and the fermentation and serving tank jackets. Assuming that the anti-freeze is problematic as a coolant, what would remediation entail? Will the process disrupt the cooling of beer and fermentation? How expensive is the remediation and change-over to food grade-glycol?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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