Immersion chiller (again - sorry!)

[bitter_dave]

At the moment i'm probably the only person doing AG brews on this forum who doesn't use a chiller after the boil - I do the cooling in the sink thing. This is because (1) I'm a poor student , and, (2) I'm crap at making stuff.

However, I'm thinking of making an immersion chiller if I can get the stuff cheaply enough. Is this on ebay suitable:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BNIB-copper-micro ... dZViewItem

[bod]

I'm crap at making stuff.

evidently not, if you can make a beer worth supping.

[bitter_dave]

evidently not, if you can make a beer worth supping.

Cheers Bod, and cheers Daab, but here is where my real idiocy becomes apparent This is the type of tap I have:





The water comes out through a large nozzle; is there any way to attach a hose to this? If it's not, perhaps I could run water from a fermenting bin, with ice in it to keep the water below room tempertature?

What do people think?

[Jim]

You can definitely get a hoselock fitting to go on that tap (though it's a bit of a dodgy fit) because that's identical to our tap before I did the new kitchen.

I'll post a photo if necessary, but it's a fitting with a slot for the end of the tap to go in, where it rests on a rubber washer and feeds into the 'hoselock' male end. You then clamp it to the tap by turning a clamp knob on the top.

You'll have a problem, though, as the hot and cold water come out of different holes and sometimes you can get cold water through but the hot is blocked by the washer, so you have to fiddle with the position of the fitting. It is possible, though.

My new tap fits the hoselock adapter perfectly - I must have been quite an amusing sight in MFI, trying it on all the kitchen taps.

EDIT: Here's a link to the very fellow!

[Seveneer]

When I lived in a flat with no access to an outside tap I used to syphon the water from the toilet cystern through the immersion chiller and into the bath

/Phil.

[DRB]

Now thats using your inititive seveveer.

[Seveneer]

Yeah, and it was self regulating courtesy of the ball valve

/Phil.

[bitter_dave]

Excellent, lots of options Cheers guys

I must have been quite an amusing sight in MFI, trying it on all the kitchen taps.

This reminds me of walking around B&Q with a boiler tap, sticking long copper tubes in the back when I was thinking about making a hop strainer - everyone must have been thinking 'my god, he has a very basic understanding of plumbing'

[Frothy]

you could use one of these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Multipurpose-Tap- ... otohosting



depends if it would fit over the size of tap that you have.
Matt

[bitter_dave]

Cheers Frothy