Just curious, why isn't there a commercially available plate chiller that can be disassembled and cleaned, similar to what professional breweries use? I assume the obvious answer is cost, but is there another reason I'm missing?
I find very few examples of people using their HERMS coil as a chiller, except when it is detached and being used as an immersion chiller.
Here's what I plan to do in my single tier, three vessel Electric HERMS build:
Recirculate the mash between the MLT and the HERMS-equipped HLT like normal...
Hello everyone. New brewer here (well, on my fifth batch of the summer and totally addicted!) This forum has been a huge help to me and so here I am with my first post. Please be gentle!
I've so far been doing 1 gallon batches from extract (light DME) and experimenting with different recipes...
I been watching beer making and I was looking at when they cool down the wort before pitching and I seen these copper tubing chillers and wondered had anyone thought about freezing some one gallon jugs all sanitized and then to cool down the wort drop a frozen gallon milk jug instead of that...