Home made glycol beer cooling ( cooler ) system

ok I am a geek but I made a beer cooling system to keep the beer cold as it travels from the garage to the kitchen along the beer lines.

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• beer
• glycol
• chiller
• cooler
• line

[wawebster]

Propylene glycol is used as it is food safe. The stuff in your radiator is ethylene glycol which is very toxic. Methanol is not used as it is also toxic. Chillers also usually feed the cold liquor tank jacket. If it should leak to the tank, it wouldn't be toxic. It is also colored blue so you will see it. And the reason you want it is if you have long beer lines. The chilled tube runs with the beer line in insulation to keep it cold on its way to the tap This guy did a great job!

[collegeboyslive]

@wawebster thanks :)

[GuitarMusicEddy]

ever herd of a refrigerator ppl? no?? ok...

[collegeboyslive]

@GuitarMusicEddy ROFL why to show your total ignorance of how stuff works in 6 words or less

[Pelon0708]

they made a big one of those a long time ago!!!!! called a refrigerator!! fucking idiot

[collegeboyslive]

@Pelon0708 ROFL showing your ignorance of how stuff works and why, love it

[spd2224]

You can buy one cheaper than it cost you to make and I would be using a Totton or Samec centrifugal pump rather that that noisy positive displacement pump that has an Emerson motor. The positive displacement pump causes heat especially if your glycol mix is to thick

[xXZdezXx]

to all those guys saying stuff about there being an invention called refrigerator since long time ago. a refrigerator is Ok when cooling booze but this guy made something pretty clever which is made as im guessing to go beyond that of the cooling time that a fridge takes and i guess that its faster and better:D cuz you know theres never a good time to have a drink

[CHEESYhairyGASH]

DEDICATION

[collegeboyslive]

@ciphyre it jjst sits on a board on top of the cooler , the pipes have enough slack in them to move it, i move it onto a table, change the keg and move it back

[collegeboyslive]

@rhorst2000 i just move it off the top, takes 1 min , its not like we change the kegs all the time

[rhorst2000]

How do you put a new keg in the cooler without taking off that contraption?

[ciphyre]

Question about the coils from the ac into the cooler, is this the condenser or evaporator coil and how were you able to get it into the cooler so cleanly? Did you take it apart to do that?