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Your cart is empty. Chill your wort like the professionals do! The Northern Brewer Counterflow Wort Chiller utilizes the same technique as your favorite commercial brewery. The tube-within-a-tube design allows for hot wort to flow through the chiller in one direction, while cooling water flows the opposite direction in a cooling jacket surrounding the wort. This efficient design ensures the hot wort is always in contact with a fresh supply of cool water - so no stirring or agitation is required! With a total of 18 feet of pure chilling power, our Counterflow wort chiller will bring wort down to pitching temperatures quickly. Solidly constructed of 304 grade stainless steel, its durability far surpasses that of similar chillers made of copper or even repurposed automotive hose. Because of its low flow restriction, this chiller can be used with simple gravity or in a pump-driven configuration.
Specs
18’ of contact area
Outer tubing = ⅝” OD
Inner tubing - = ⅜” OD
1/2” Male NPT Wort fittings
Standard Male Garden Hose fittings for cooling water
Integrated Welded Mounting bracket with (2) 5/16” mounting holes 3” on center
304 Stainless Steel Construction
Dimensions
7” Tall
8” Coil OD
Overall Width 11 ½” (including the connections)
Weight 6lbs 14 oz
Alex Williams
August 16, 2025
This chiller is amazing! I couldn't quite believe how fast it dropped temperature. The fact that it is all male fittings proved a minor headache simply because it meant a trip to the hardware store during the COVID shutdown, but normally this wouldn't have been a problem. It's easy to clean, easy to use and has done a great job on several batches so far.
Weston Wright
August 7, 2025
I replaced another CFC that used a copper coil inside a heavy duty hose. I wanted a stainless version. The smaller 3/8 OD tubing is in theory better than 1/2 OD due to contact area but it does restrict flow. So if you're recirculating back into your kettle for whirlpool, it does seem to weaken the flow rate. I do like the small overall size and ease of cleaning.Assuming you're connecting a water hose for the cold water connection, you'll need a female-female adapter to connect the make end of the hose to the male on the CFC.
Emmons Hathaway
June 28, 2025
Took wort from a rolling boil to 70* in 10 minutes. Does exactly what it should. Only issue I had was putting fittings on the top wort port. It bent slightly when I was tightening the fittings, but I was tightening very hard. Would definitely buy this again!!
Thomas Schleis
May 6, 2025
This is a really high quality item at a reasonable price. Not as fast as a plate chiller but acceptable. Looks great with my Brewtolls B40, and is longer than theirs, so a little more efficient.
Jessica
April 22, 2025
Depending on how you're mounting this coil, gravity will take over and the coils will separate slightly. I added zip ties to solve this problem. Another issue is that both garden hose connections are male! Serious design issue here! You need to run to your favorite orange, blue, red, or green home center to get a male to female garden hose connection - don't overlook this detail.
WHolmes
January 25, 2025
This is my third chiller, but the first of this type. It’s the fastest and easiest to clean too. Much easier than my plate chiller. Very happy with this purchase.
Ann Haack
January 8, 2025
I missed it in the picture, but it comes with two male ends. Have to buy an additional adapter to use this.
Charles Tsai
December 29, 2024
I’m not going to mention warmth, packaging or thickness as those are all irrelevant. This thing is well made but creates a lot of restriction that my chugger pump slows to a crawl. This will not work in line to chill during whirlpool. If you just need to chill but don’t need the exit speed to be anything, this will work fine. Not sure if it will work at all in a gravity fed setup though as it barely flows under pressure.
JaySlippy
December 28, 2024
Now I've used this for the first time I'm happy to say it's a great product and a recommended upgrade. It took me about 10 minutes to chill 20 litres of beer to pitching temp. It's a reassuringly solid construction and being stainless steel hopefully it should last a long time.This has improved my brew day in several ways. Firstly the reduction in time, not only because the chilling time is quicker but also because chilling and transfer to the fermenter are done simultaneously. It might only be a matter of minutes, but the removal of one step from the process is very welcome.I also find it more convenient attaching this externally rather than having to dump a chiller into the kettle during the boil. I've read that there are also benefits to having small amounts of wort rapidly chilled, rather than a large amount slowly chilled, but I'm not a scientific enough home brewer to be able to verify this!In terms of negatives, I think it would be difficult to work without a pump, and even with one it can be a bit tricky. I'm looking to add a bleed valve to mine in addition to the throttle valve. You also need to factor in the cost of attachments. I couldn't find many suppliers of US NPT camlock (or adapter) fittings and ended up having to pay a high price for imports from the US. It may be more economical to find a UK supplier of an alternative product, but at the time I was buying there weren't any available.Finally the Amazon US import service worked really well. Compared to ordering directly with a US supplier, having to pay FX fees, customs fees, delivery fees, admin fees for processing customs fees and waiting weeks for all this to be resolved, it was very simple and quick.
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