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Your cart is empty.Garden Hose Chillers This unit has garden hose fittings welded right to the unit for easy adaptation to your cooling water. They can be fit with regular garden hoses or even quick connect fittings to attach to garden hoses. There is one female and one male garden hose fitting on the unit. The female is intended to receive the male fitting from the end of the hose connected to your faucet and the male garden hose fitting for connecting to another hose for the heated water exiting the exchanger. Garden Hose MalexFemale (water) x 1/2"" Hose Barb (wort) Hose barbs welded directly to the heat exchanger unit allow for easy connections to 1/2"" tubing for the beer wort side.
TC
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018
Why did I wait so long?? This plate chiller is awesome!! I ran 5 gallons of 218 degree wort through this in five minutes and it chilled to 60 degrees!! Insane! Easy to set up. I gravity feed it with no problem!
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017
with 50 degree garden hose water this unit was able to chill 200 degree wort to 80 degrees in minutes!
J. EOD
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2015
I bought this chiller from my local brew shop on a whim. I didn't have any pre-conceived notions on how this was going to work, all I knew it was going to be faster than my current immersion chiller (took 30 mins to bring 5-6 gallons of wort to pitch temp). I use a hop spider so the transition from my current set-up to this one was fairly easy. So anyway, I used this for the first time yesterday for a 5 3/4 gallon batch, and I have to say I was blown away by the efficiency of this chiller. I achieved a cold break in about 5 minutes, and it cooled my entire batch to pitch temp in just 7 minutes! I highly recommend this product to anyone who uses an immersion chiller and is looking for a cheap alternative to a blichmann therminator. a couple recommendations though, have a pump (I use a chugger pump), a hop spider (to avoid a stuck wort situation), and PBW for cleaning (for at least 10-15 minutes at high temps). I have read multiple posts on how plate chillers get stuck easily and are hard to clean.
Bob G
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
Works great! I can chill 12 gallons of wort to near pitching temperature in less than 18 minutes.
Matt and Dana
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2013
Chills 10 gallons of beer from 200 to 75 in about 20-30 minutes without a pump. Havn't had any problems with clogging yet, and so far we like it.
Inga/Emily Edwards
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2013
We should have bought tubing with this while we were at it, but being new at this has its learning curve. Can't wait to try it out.
JLP
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013
You have to do a bit of work adjusting both liquid flow rates in the beginning in order to get the right final temperature, but once you get it right you don't have to fuss with it. I use my old copper wort chiller in an ice bath to make the hose water nice and cold. If you also put your fermentor into ice water, you can get the final temperature close to pitching for lagers quickly too. It can clog (or be a challenge to clean), so I installed a mesh tube on the inside of the brew kettle spigot to eliminate most of the trub issue and I let the hot break settle out for a bit before I start the draining. I dreaded cooling down wort until we got these chiller plates.
Federico Perez
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013
I used to cool down home brew beer.It worked just great, the worth cooled down very fast and it is now fermenting satisfactorily
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