the chillzilla has landed

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Monday Oct 03, 2005 4:41 pm

Well after much waiting it's finally here, my Chilzilla wort chiller arrived today from US.

Check them out here, about half way down the page:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/wort-chillers.html

It's a ripper!

NTRabbit · Post by **NTRabbit** » Monday Oct 03, 2005 4:47 pm

Wow, that looks like some funky jazz. Shipping set you back much?

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Monday Oct 03, 2005 4:58 pm

Shipping was about $35US and took 9 weeks to get here by surface mail.

IT's a solid piece of gear and will bolt onto brew bench, when I build it!

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Monday Oct 03, 2005 5:03 pm

Is cleaning just run rinse water through it when finishded, and sanitising run boiling water through it?

Looks more simple than a large pot in a bath tub full of ice water.

Cheers,
Greg

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Monday Oct 03, 2005 6:36 pm

you got it Greg, just run hot rinse water through at end with a bit of bleach of use, then sanitise before using and away you go!

All you need is a water source handy to use while chilling!

Grega · Post by **Grega** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 12:27 am

Looks interesting, Grabman.

I may have missed something obvious, but, how is the water chilled? Or is the "chilled water" simply tap water at normal tap water temperature?

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 12:35 am

Grega,
yes cooling water for hot wort is just tap water that flows in opposite direction to wort through external pipe, hence name counteflow chiller. The idea is as the two liquids flow through their respective tubes heat is exchanged and the wort comes out cool enough to go into fermenter.

Grabman

ps now we wait for gregc to sign up

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 2:59 am

Grab,

Don't use bleach, it will really screw up the copper, I kid you not. Take a little bit of copper and put it in some bleach solution see what happens.

Use TSP or peroxide although I would question peroxide even

Good Luck with it, I will stick with my plate heat exchanger

Dogger

undercover1 · Post by **undercover1** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 8:38 am

God I love that NB catalogue...

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 10:02 am

cheers Dogger, as always I bow to your wisdom

and too right UC1, the NB catalogue is amazing, plenty of things to spend money on in there.

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 10:09 am

Thanks Grab,

seeing is believing thats why I wanted you to see for yourself, but thanks for taking my word.

Dogger

db · Post by db » Tuesday Oct 04, 2005 12:51 pm

grabman wrote:cheers Dogger, as always I bow to your wisdom

and too right UC1, the NB catalogue is amazing, plenty of things to spend money on in there.

damn straight.. check out the therminator - i want one

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 2:12 am

db,

Thats what I have,

I love it, works a treat and its so tiny

Dogger

db · Post by db » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 7:49 am

Dogger Dan wrote:db,

Thats what I have,

I love it, works a treat and its so tiny

Dogger

it looks like the way to go Dogger.. Especially if you dont have the space for a CF chiller.. like myself.
Is that the average price for them DD?

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:07 pm

Yeh,

mine came in a around 190 US, but I have friends in the States so shipping suddenly dropped if you know what I mean

Dogger

Lebowski · Post by **Lebowski** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:33 pm

Why do you need to chill the wort?

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:41 pm

Not to be insulting but because it is hot.

As the T drops, it hangs around a nasty temp profile that is favourable to bacterial growth and a profile not so good to yeast devlopment so bacteria get s a head start.

Cooling the wort rushes it through that profile so the yeast can giddy up before the bacteria.

Simple terms folks.....simple terms.

Dogger

db · Post by db » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:44 pm

Dogger Dan wrote:Yeh,

mine came in a around 190 US, but I have friends in the States so shipping suddenly dropped if you know what I mean

Dogger

Dogger, how long have you had it for? are there any issues with it clogging up with break etc?

Lebowski · Post by **Lebowski** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:46 pm

Dogger Dan wrote:Not to be insulting but because it is hot.

Dogger

But why use a cooler rather than just dumping it straight onto cold water in the fermenter? Do you do something extra with the wort once it is cooled?

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:53 pm

Lebowski,

Dogger (and most other AGers) boil all (or nearly all) their wort (ie all 23L or so), so there is no significant amount of "cold water in the fermenter" to dump it into.

Also you probably shouldn't just "dump" it into the fermember, because you are risking hot-side aeration of the wort, which means your beer is much more prone to oxidation and going stale.

Tony