Devin
August 8, 2025
All this device does is increase surface area that wort can contact, so performance is dependent on the temperature of the liquid being used to cool/heat the wort. Fortunately I'm in the Pacific Northwest and groundwater is relatively cool which gets me down to pitching temps in about five minutes.The downside is the extra complexity and cleanup. To recirculate or pump directly into the fermentor requires a pump, and both the pump and the plate chiller need to be cleaned well. Additionally cooling quickly using tap water requires a lot of water, and cleanup requires even more water, although some have bake their chillers the oven to carbonize any organic material.I think the form factor of this chiller is fairly standard and one problem I ran into was in using Tri Clamp to NPT adapters. The adapters worked fine, but using the clamps essentially made it impossible to connect the garden house. I ended up making a short extension for the hose and grinding down a flat on the clamps. I suggest just sticking with the NPT fittings or using a quick disconnect.
J. M. Webb
August 4, 2025
After only a few uses, I'm impressed with this chiller. It cools quickly, takes up much less space than my giant immersion chiller, and allows me to properly whirlpool. I recommend adding quick disconnects and an inline thermometer one the outlet (I used a probe compression fitting for this so I can use any type of "meat" thermometer).
Robert Beauregard
July 18, 2025
Amazing product for less than half of what you'd spend on a Blichmann.Before I had this plate chiller, I was using a 25 ft. coiled stainless steel immersion chiller. On a warm summer day, it took me nearly 2 hours to get the boiling wort down to 80 degrees. What a waste of time and water ($). Though on the positive side, it kept me in the garage listening to music and drinking beer, so not all was lost! :)With this HFs 30 plate chiller, used in conjunction with the immersion chiller, I don't even have time to finish one beer. It took my wort from 210 F down to 71 F in 8 minutes!!!! And it was a sunny 85 F day. My set up had the hose water first go through the immersion chiller that was set in a cooler of ice and water, so the water was pre-chilled before going through the plate chiller. I also added the first few quarts of drawn off wort back into the brew kettle on top of the remaining hot wort so that it would both cool that wort and go through the plate chiller a second time.Another benefit is that because the wort is flowing through the chambers inside the plate chiller, the wort will aerate for your pitching yeast.I figure with the water I'll save and not having to buy an aeration stone and CO2 canisters, this plate chiller will pay for itself in about 4 or 5 five-gallon brews.
Marcos Guogli
July 15, 2025
Incredible product for craftbeer
akellehe
June 23, 2025
This thing makes chilling your wort a BREEZE. it's pretty easy to clean out, you just pump water through both sides. Connects to the sink with a 1/2" male NPT. I wish this shipped with the appropriate bushings, though. 3/4" female NPT to 1/2" barb is kind of hard to find. If you turn the sink connector on full blast it does a better job. Took two passes coming from boiling to room temperature with the sink on low. To sanitize I just submerge the thing then pump water through to rinse it out. I put it on it's side to dry, dump any excess water, then leave it upside down to store. Love this thing.
mjd1
June 22, 2025
I had a home made counterflow chiller using a garden hose and copper tubing. It worked very well until the thin copper tube bent and cracked. Fortunately, I caught that while cleaning it when water came rushing out where it shouldn't have. I got on Amazon and found this. I wasn't sure about it since it was so much cheaper than the ones I found at the brew stores and online brew shops, but I thought I'd give it a try. It works great! I can get it from boiling to 90 degrees in about 15 seconds. It takes about 10-15 minutes to get down to 72 degrees. I recirculate back in to the pot while it's cooling until the whole batch is down to temperature. The only downside, and not worth taking a star off, was the fact there was no mounting hardware. I'm working on rigging something up now. But works great and I haven't had any issue with clogging. It also seems to clean very easily. It also takes up a lot less space the one I had. I've used it on 2 batches so far, with one being a stout. I'm very pleased.
king in the north
June 7, 2025
This thing is a beast as soon as you're done boiling your beer you're pretty much done making your beer with this thing. Gone are the days of wasting all kinds of water and time waiting for an immersion chiller to cool your beer this thing right here took my stuff from boiling to 74° in one pass and it's just the end of summer here it was 90 degrees outside today so I don't know what the temperature of the water is but it's not that cold this is in the California Bay Area that is some quick Cooling right there I cooled 8 gallons of water to 74 degrees as fast as it could flow out of my pot. I can't lie these chillers are kind of daunting when you first get them and you got to have all the right connections which cost a little bit of money but once you get it going you will not be sorry about it I used to hate waiting for the beer to cool with this thing it's done as soon as it's done boiling and that just totally got rid of the worst part of the Brew Day in my personal opinion
Fernando
May 9, 2025
El producto es de muy buena calidad.
Azael
May 7, 2025
funciona perfecto, en 5 minutos o menos se baja la temperatura del mosto (20 litros) a 20°C
Fernando
April 2, 2025
Excelente producto para laElaboración de cerveza
vinnyamy123
March 12, 2025
Super effective, cool 5g beer wort in less than 5min
Francisco Israel Treviño Gonzalez
January 12, 2025
Muy buen producto