How To Set Up And Use A Beer Chiller - Pros and Cons and Tips for your Home Bar

[@OysterBoysBrewingCo]

How do you chill your beers?

[@soole23]

Great video. I've got a kegerator in the garge and was looking to do something similar in the garden but this makes much more sense.

[@BiggRuss1000]

Brilliant video. Thanks. I've recently seen similar systems popping up on eBay while searching for brew gear and wondered how they work. I currently have a 1 tap homebuilt kegerator. I'm adding a 2nd tap soon and getting more kegs

[@BrewabitRick]

That is a great bit of kit and a great tutorial. You definitely covered the pros and cons 👍blooming heck what a pain to find out it didn’t record and you’d put everything away and get it out again proper dedication. Cheers 👍🍻

[@derekwilson6834]

Great video and informative as ever Mark, thank you for the time and effort in making these. For me you have just solved a mystery. I've recently bought off ebay a dual Strongbow / Dark fruit tap and wondered what the extra two black tubes coming out of the bottom besides the dispense lines where for? And now I know!! Cheers 😊🍻

[@devilmaycare2809]

Really informative and useful video, thanks :) If I'm taking say lager from a fermenter (all rounder) then I use a temp twister hooked up to a Icemaster G20.1 glycol chiller to lower it to a good pouring temperature. If however I'm going to use a corney keg then I'm going to use a ferminator with my homemade version of there plug and pour. I can fit three kegs in it (plus a co2 cylinder) and cool them down overnight ready for serving the next day.

[@chrisward1666]

I use a 4 line Cornelius chiller. I didn’t want to leave a fridge running all the time, I can turn this on and in less than an hour it’s down to 5 degrees. I found mine on marketplace for £100

[@andyclark6012]

I have a "smegorator" a 2nd hand smeg fridge which works for me, happy to just have a couple of kegs on tap and suits well for the space i have, but i can see the benefit of having a pub chiller if you have the space. Are you not seeing any downside of storing your hoppy beers warm before flash chilling it? Everyone seems to bang on about the need to keep hoppy beers chilled at all times..

[@neilholder6337]

Great Video, but I have a question unrelated to the chiller. Your outdoor "kitchen", I think you've talked about it in another video before but I can't find that video. Did you build that yourself, if so any chance you could share any details? I'm tempted to build one for my Ooni (looks like you have one on yours!), a built in gas BBQ and may a couple of taps similar to yours. How do you maintain yours? Particularly over the wet, wintery months, do you take off the taps or cover them up, etc? Cheers

[@jasonhughes3333]

Hi great video i have a 2 line setup ready to serve stella im going to double chill it through the cooler, the kegs stored at about 15oC what do you think the serving psi should be? Any ideas thanks 🍺

[@stripeyjoe]

One other use for a chiller would be to cool the feed to your wort chiller so you use less water and can chill to lager pitch temps in summer.

[@punkdigerati]

Please tell me more about those inline flow control devices, that's the sleekest solution I've ever seen. Does it have enough to reduction for use with an admittedly unbalanced short draw system?

[@beetooex]

Are there 12v or 24v versions available for off-grid bars at outdoor events etc?

[@haydnmaxwell649]

Hi just been given a chiller by my m8. Just a quick question about carbonatio. Do you still have to carbonate your beer before you connect to the chiller?

[@OysterBoysBrewingCo]

Yes, absolutely!

[@cliffthegardener]

Corny kegs in a modified fridge.