I've just used my homemade counterflow chiller for the first time. It's a hosepipe and 10m of 8mm copper pipe job. Everything went well apart from. The time it took to cool.
I didn't check the exact time but it must have taken the best part of an hour to drain 30L though it. I thought it would be quicker than an immersion chiller but this was significantly longer.
In the plus side it delivered wort at 18-20ðC straight into the fermentor. I had to slow the water to a trickle, so there is definitely capacity to push more wort through it.
Is the only practical solution a pump? I have a small brown dc solar pump but haven't tried it out yet. With the flow I was getting today I would be worried about it running dry.
I didn't check the exact time but it must have taken the best part of an hour to drain 30L though it. I thought it would be quicker than an immersion chiller but this was significantly longer.
In the plus side it delivered wort at 18-20ðC straight into the fermentor. I had to slow the water to a trickle, so there is definitely capacity to push more wort through it.
Is the only practical solution a pump? I have a small brown dc solar pump but haven't tried it out yet. With the flow I was getting today I would be worried about it running dry.