3 Dec
2003
3 Dec
'03
8:57 a.m.
The pump pushes, it doesn't pull so you would put it before the chiller.
You want the restriction on the output side of the pump (at least the
types we use for brewing).
As Dave Berg and others have said "the pump has one working end and the
other end just sucks".
BTW - I avoid the pump on the finished wort path as that eliminates
another sanitation area. I can gravity feed the kettle through the
chiller to the carboy. It takes a little longer than pumping the wort
but it is one less thing to worry about.
I installed a grant (really just a small stainless pot from Target)
between the mash-tun and the pump to the kettle because the pump could
compact the grain bed too much when recirculating. Or maybe it was
just because it was neat to add the grant :-)
jdcotton(a)mmm.com writes:
Hey Guys,
I know this has been asked many times, but I can't remember (nor did I save
any of the previous emails where this was discussed). So here goes...
My next big purchase for my brewery is going to be a pump. I figured out
how to pipe it so that I can recirculate and pump the sweet wort from the
mash tun to the boil kettle. But what about from the boil kettle to the
fermenter?? Right now I use gravity to move the liquid from the boil
kettle, through the counterflow to the fermenter.
If I install a pump, would I install it before or after the counterflow
chiller?? What are the pluses and minus to each??
Jeff
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