Home Brew Copper Immersion Wort Chiller, 50' X 1/2"

Works great

I did not receive a 1/2" coil as listed. Instead, the coil was 3/8 tubing.

The ad is a bit misleading by calling the pipe 1/2" since it is 1/2" OD rather than ID, which means you will want 3/8" fittings to work with this stuff. The seller is adamant that the pipe is 1/2 inch. It works fine, but you are buying 50% more cooling surface area if you find a product with a true 1/2" ID rather than OD.

Not as pictured but useable. In the picture the ends of the tube are bent AWAY from the center of the coil. This is important, as any leaks will be outside the cookpot. Having hose water drip into your pot is gross. On the coil I received, the ends of the tube point toward the center of the coil, ensuring that any drips will end up in the stockpot. I guess they had a brain fart, or perhaps have never actually used an immersion coil. I'll end up buying a tubing bender to fix it. Also, the ends of the tubing are squished out of roundness, ensuring that I cannot use compression or flare fittings unless I cut the ends off.

Great price on this chiller! I was looking for copper tubing when I found this in the results. The fact that I did not have to coil this myself and it cost less than I could find 50 feet of 1/2" copper tubing had me sold instantly. If you want to make this even more efficient at cooling, check out what I did to it here:[...]

Nice 1/2" chiller. It gets me down to 100' in 15 minutes, which is great for Florida. I put the bucket in the fermentation chamber to get down to 70'

Great