I see a lot of wort chiller now that are stainless steel. What is the better of the two? Copper or stainless steel?


Tags: wort cooler copper, wort cooler stainless steel, stainless versus copper wort chillers

copper coils in your kettle works for me, easy to use, does the job, and is reasonably cheap, also easy to clean.
gary

Stainless steel wouldn't work well as a wort chiller. Copper will have a much better heat transfer. I built a custom counter-flow wort chiller using 3/8" soft copper tubing stuffed inside a 5/8" rubber hose. I was able to cool the 220F wort down to 65F in less then 10 minutes!

Here is a picture of my setup:
http://www.hoppyhomebrewers.com/forum/v ... p?f=13&t=2

And here is a closeup picture of my custom wort chiller:
http://www.hoppyhomebrewers.com/forum/v ... ?f=13&t=13

The pics in those links are all scrammbled!! Weird!!
Copper for sure!!

Yeah my pictures are all messed up. Hopefully I will figure it out tonight.

I can never remember how to put pics on here.
Heres my counterflow chiller.
I need to get some pics of my immersion too.
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-17254560480715_1989_623798

http://www.flatfenderbrewing.com/beer.html

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It looks like you have an extra [img] in there at the end so your link didn't work. Also, you can check out my pictures now, I fixed the scrambling problem.