re: Homebrewing: Official Recipe Thread (All-Grain & Extract)

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Nice! You mention twice about cooling the wort. Look into buying or DIY'ing a wort chiller.

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I started to do this and bought a 20' X 3/8" flexible copper tubing from Home Depot. I would suggest a 1/2" diameter. You do not realize how much heat you have to dispense of. Also, this tubing kinks very easily. The packaged coil diameter was too large for my pot. What I found out through trial and error is that if stepped gently on one end and pulled the coil up vertically to about 3 or 4 feet off the floor, you could slowly tighten the diameter and work the tension down the coil until you reach the desired diameter.

For the 90 degree bend, I used a plumbers tube bender which is just a spring that slips over the tubing. You can slowly get the bend you need. You could possibly heat the tubing with a propane torch and bend it that way.

The connectors, tubing and such are elementary.

Hope this helps.