MisguidedCanuck

Are you still using this technique, Roger?

On 12/4/2015 at 1:08 PM, captnKB said:

I would reccomend something other than tube in shell. A friend ruined a 1" tube in shell when he attempted to pump a high rye bourbon through it and the mash turned to a dense sticky mess. It clogged so badly that we had to cut open the tube in shell to clear out the clog and weld it back together.

We use an immersion chiller here at our place. It works great and takes the temp on a 500 gallon mash from 150 degrees to 85 in about 90 minutes

From my understanding, grain-on mashes should not be pushed through tube-in-shell coolers with inside diameters smaller than 1-1/2". Anything smaller is likely to plug. It's a matter of choosing the correct piece of equipment for the job. 

Am interested in tube-in-tube heat exchangers at a great price, hit me up Paul. I've got a 400-gallon (working capacity) mash tun and need a tube-in-shell for on-grain mashing. We've spoken before.

On 1/13/2022 at 8:02 AM, Southernhighlander said:

I actually like immersion coils better than tube in tube, so our mash tuns come with internal cooling coils also our pro series mash tuns have really strong agitators so you can leave some of the water out of the recipe and then add it to the mash as cold water so that the crash cool is done in 2 or 3 minutes.  We do have tube in tube heat exchangers at a great price that will crash cool your mash in 10 to 15 minutes.   Of you would like a qoute email paul@distillery-equipment.com or if you would like to discuss call 417-778-6908 and ask for Paul. 

We just doubled our capacity and now have a 1,000 L stainless steel stripping still for sale. Asking $8,000 paid double that. Need it gone. Located near Parksville, on Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada. We also have a very affordable mashing unit made from a converted 400-gallon dairy chiller that turns out 800L washes like nothing. $1,000 takes it. Works great and no stuck mashes.

Vancouver Island distiller here. Purtrak (dot com) is used by a lot of BC distilleries and many are now asking to be released from their contracts (!) with US suppliers in order to get something more suited to the Canadian CRA regime. I am looking into it myself.