The 5 Best small batch Wort chillers (2023 reviews)

It is important to have the well suited small batch wort chiller. In the following post, we will help you to select the best small batch wort chillers.

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NY Brew supply Stainless Steel Buy: READ REVIEW

Home Brew stuff small batch Wort Chiller Buy: READ REVIEW

Coldbreak small batch Wort Chiller Buy: READ REVIEW

NY Brew supply small batch Wort Chiller Buy: READ REVIEW

Exchilerator small batch Wort Chiller Buy: READ REVIEW

NY Brew supply Stainless Steel

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The ny brew supply stainless steel is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily purpose. The copper is a very high quality tubing that cools hot liquids quickly. With the size of this chiller, it should make short work of cooling off any boiling brew kettle 10" or greater in diameter. It will lower a 10 gallon reservoir 10 degrees in under 15 minutes. The discharge tubing gets droopy from the near-boiling water coming out. It comes with hoses ready to go.

This makes wort chilling simple and quick. Fits right in the pot and takes only 10 mins to get from boiling to fermentation temps. The need to come out further to prevent errant drips from getting into wort.

• Easy to adjust to accommodate your kettle size
• Cools 6 gallons of wort in 10 or 15 min with active swirling
• 5 minutes to cool from boiling to room temperature
• Good value, a bit tight (flattened) on the inlet and return bends

Home Brew stuff small batch Wort Chiller

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We would, of course, be remiss if we didn't mention home brew stuff small batch wort chiller for regular usage. A wort chiller will only work as good as the connections it has and the temperature of the water running through it. It will work with a full 5-gallon all-grain brew. It comes with all the rubber washers you need. It has Copper tubing which provides the most efficient and perfect balance of heat transfer and flow rate, allowing you to cool your wort and reduce the amount of wasted water. It's leaky even with all of the extra gaskets so.

The connections are all tight and solid. It performs great with zero issues.

• Works great but only chills as cold as the water going
• Good brand reputation

Coldbreak small batch Wort Chiller

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We would, of course, be remiss if we didn't mention coldbreak small batch wort chiller for regular usage. A wort chiller is a heat exchanger designed to cool your wort to yeast pitch-able temperatures at a rapid rate, forming the cold break. It can feel the heat from the wort is conducted by the copper and expelled through the chiller's outlet tube, which cools the wort in an extremely efficiently manner. Leak free compression barbs keep your immersion chiller from leaking back into your wort during the chilling process. It has a standard heavy duty female garden hose fitting, also made in the usa.

The Vinyl tub comes assembled with (2) 4’ lengths, or 8 feet total. It is great for the kitchen homebrewer that is making extract batches.

• Better than a chiller if you have unlimited ice, no heat, hardly any power
• Good brand reputation

NY Brew supply small batch Wort Chiller

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Not everyone likes to purchase chiller for their daily purpose, but the ny brew supply small batch wort chiller would be an anomoly. This coil is heavier and taller. It is going to chill a hot wort in minutes. The fittings hang well outside the kettle so no risk of contaminating wort with chilling water. A nice feature is that it's possible to slide one vertical leg of the tube with respect to the other by loosening the two clamps holding them together.

It is easy to clean, chilled 6 gallon batches in 15 mins. The top also expands, allowing more "give" for the hoses. This helps with cleaning and provides better wort circulation.

• Cooled from boiling to yeast pitching temp in 15 minutes
• Cooled from boiling to 80 f in just 15 minutes
• Cools very quickly with a little stirring

Exchilerator small batch Wort Chiller

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Compared with other chiller in this category, the exchilerator small batch wort chiller has a convenient design. The Exchilerator counter flow wort chiller is the ultimate chilling tool for home brewers. It uses Pex tubing and a 10 gauge non metallic wire woven in a co-helical manner around inner copper tubing. It is coiled inside the outer on a machine that does not create any kinks or nooks that trub and hop mater can gather unlike the convoluted and plate designs. The stainless temp and valve manifold comes with it and 1/2 n.p.t fittings to adapt your brewery to the exchilerator standard garden hose fittings are also provided on the cold side of the cooler.

Unlike garden hose designs with so called adjustable nut and ferrule fittings, the Exchilerator is skillfully soldered the full length of the fittings this leaves no place for infections to hide. The co-helical wrap accomplishes two things. The exchilerator is made of materials made for potable water, your cooling waste water can be used again with no chemical or garden hose taste.

• Helps swirl cooling water across all surfaces for maximum cooling efficiency
• Low budget hose clamps, all stainless collars and lead free fittings
• One of the new comers and featured product