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khillje:
Just curious if anyone else has done this.  To be honest, this piece of equipment originated by my misunderstanding of the immersion chiller.  I run the water hose in the barrel and run the hot wort through the copper.  It's extremely efficient.  During the winter, i just fill the barrel w/ water and keep it cold by shoveling snow into it.  When cleaning my keggles prior to brewing, I always hook them up to this and runoff all the cleaning fluid through the tubing.  Never had an issue w/ infection and I've been using this for years now.  It works great, but curious if anyone else does this.  I'll be upgrading to a plate chiller soon, but only because it takes up a lot less space.

blatz:
yeah - what it sounds like is basically a CFC (Counterflow Chiller) - morebeer sells one called the Chillzilla.

weithman5:
this is similar to a cross flow heat exchanger with no flow on the shell side.  i have something similar i am working on with my coil in a 2 gallon bucket and then i have hose taps in the lid and shell of the bucket to pump ice water through it.

majorvices:
That's funny, when I started brewing going on 17 years now I misunderstood and did the exact same thing. I think you will find the regular Immersion Chiller set up to be just as efficient and way more easy to use. To sanitize an IC you just hose it off and dump it in the boil during the last minute and whirl pool with a spoon or pump while chilling. I have a counter flow chiller as well and both work great but I always preferred the convenience of the IC, personally.

mtnrockhopper:
Me too. I learned from a friend who forgot how it was supposed to work.

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