Homebrew Equipment Tips

A wort chiller is a heat exchanger designed to cool your wort to yeast pitch-able temperatures at a rapid rate, forming the cold break.

Your brand new shiny copper immersion chiller will have some residual machine oil left on it, especially near the bends.

Your new hard maple mash paddle will last for years if you treat it right.  Here are a few quick tips:

Coldbreak immersion wort chillers come supplied 1/16 inch wall vinyl tubing.  We use this type of vinyl because it creates a tighter, more reliable seal.

Compression fittings are a great way to create a leak free connection to the inlet and outlet of your chiller.

This question comes up often.  Is a copper immersion chiller better than a stainless steel chiller?  The short answer, yes.