Homebrew Equipment Tips

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

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

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.

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

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

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.