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The Wort Chiller/Diverter Panelhas two pumps and all of the plumbing in the brewhouse connects to this panel as well. Using a swing link which is just a U-shaped piece of pipe, we can connect different pieces of plumbing together quickly and easily thereby routing the wort or beer anywhere we would like it to go in the brewery. We use this to connect the mash tun to the boil kettle, to do the re-circulations that are necessary and finally to push the bitter wort through the wort chillers. The wort chillers contain stainless steel plates. On one side of the plate will run the boiling bitter wort and on the other side will run a coolant. In our picture, the chiller to the left chills with water and the chiller to the right uses glycol. This is very efficient. We can cool 550 gallons of bitter wort from boiling to 20 degrees centigrade in 40 minutes. |