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Your cart is empty.This immersion worth chiller is designed for 5 gallon batches and will cool your worth in minutes! It's made from 25 feet of 3/8 inch OD copper tubing. 3/8 inch copper tubing provides the most efficient water-flow through the chiller.
M&G Cornelius
August 12, 2025
I am really happy with this. Novice brewer, have only used it once, that being yesterday. For an assembled apparatus, it cost about what 50' of copper tubing would have cost me. Here are some details: No, it really has no packaging to speak of, but arrived in perfect condition. The stems (inlet and outlet) may be short, but if you are worried about leaking over your wort, gently bend the whole neck so they are nowhere near the edge of the pot. Furthermore, if you are worried about leaks, get a couple more hose clamps - use two per connection (alternate their orientation) and importantly, heat the hose gently before sliding it on the copper, so when you tighten the clamps, they rally crush it down.In use, I found it cooled faster with a more moderate flow of water (which saves water) and also agitating the wort with the cooler helps tremendously. Up and down, side to side ... in fact .. if I let it sit still, the outflow would be cooler, yet if I moved it around, the outflow tube would get hot quickly. That is the heat from the wort going away! I didn't time it, as I was too busy doing it ... but it felt like 5, maybe 10 minutes at most to cool below 80 F with a full 20qt. kettle.One other thing ... I sanitized my cooler with Star-San prior to use, rather than putting it into the boil 10-15 minutes before the end. Reason I did this was that I had my cooler rigged in the basement sink (where I had plumbing that would work) and was doing the boil upstairs in the kitchen. Eliminating dangling hoses and complication during the carrying of a full kettle down stairs seemed like a wise move. Other than the use of some Star-San, I don't see what the big deal is with that, and it actually seemed to make my life easier (and avoid preheating the copper, which is just more mass to cool)I'd buy this again in a heartbeat, and am sure it would cool larger batches quickly too, if I move up in size. I don't think I'll have to though!
Jeffrey Say
August 6, 2025
Makes cooling the wort easy.
Vermont Shopper
June 5, 2025
This chiller is well-made and great value for the price, compared to similar models available at higher prices. I have always used a counterflow chiller, but needed an immersion chiller to be able to the control the wort temperature for hop additions and steeps at specific temperatures. It works perfectly for that as intended. Everyone's equipment is different, but I was surprised to find that chilling with this is faster and significantly more efficient than my counterflow chiller. I wish I'd bought this years ago!The fitting and hose that ships with this are of good quality, and the amount of hose is appropriate for most possible set-ups I can imagine, unless you have a long way to go to connect things.I wash this carefully between uses, and sanitize by submersing in the kettle for the last part of the boil. Please be careful- even though I blow the water out after each use, there is always some residual water in it, and the first shot of water through it will be insanely hot, and can create a jet effect enough to blow the outgoing hose out of whatever sink or bucket you run it into. I learned this the hard way when it rocketed out of my sink and blasted me from head to toe with a shot of boiling water. Secure the hose well, or let the first flow of water through it carefully! This is not a fault of the chiller- just my failure in managing some basic physics, so please learn from my mistake.
Customer
April 14, 2025
Just received, assembled and tested this wort chiller. It works really well... cooling 3.5 gallons of wort to 65 degrees in under 15 minutes. This will be perfect for my 5 gallon and less setup I have... would probably work great for larger batches too, but I never brew anymore than 5 gallons and usually 2-3 gallon batches. As others have mentioned tighten down the clamps with a socket to make sure you don't have any leaks, especially on the inlet side, I had to tighten it quite a bit to get it to stop leaking. Overall great product and def worth the investment for home brewing.Update: I got rid of the hose clamps and small tubing. I upgraded to 3/8 dishwasher fittings on both sides and no use a garden hose on my basement sink. The hose clamps just leaked to much, so I couldn't crank up the water flow, but with the dishwasher fittings I can have it full blast with little to no leaks and cool the wort much faster.
Eric R. Caron
January 11, 2025
When I received this there was only one tube, so I had to go to a hardware store and pick up a second tube and some clamps. But once I was able to finish building it, and modify the spout attachment, it works amazingly well. I was impressed to see that several rows of coils are taller than my brew pot. I had to build my own attachment for the sink because it is narrower than a standard sink, so I used the garden hose attachment as a weight to hold the drain side to the bottom of the sink. Without a weight on the end of the tube it wants to jump when you turn the water on and while moving the brew pot. For anyone else who has an extra small faucet head, I went to the hardware store and picked up the same faucet head, popped the guts out of it, dropped a nipple with a ball socket inside it and siliconed all around it and let it harden. then I clamped that on to the tube. Works great.
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