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Spike Glycol Chiller
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The NEW Spike Glycol Chiller makes stabilizing and cooling your fermenter temperatures a breeze. We included must-have features like an integrated glycol drain port, quick connecting fittings for glycol lines, splash proof lid, locking casters and even a glycol sight glass to check glycol volumes. Oh, did we mention how good it looks? It's a class act.
*Order placed after July 26 will be shipped in early October*
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Propylene Glycol (2.5gal) Benefits
Used with the Glycol Chiller to cool your beer.
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Overview
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*Order placed after July 26 will be shipped in early October*
The NEW Spike Glycol Chiller was designed to be super user friendly. Want to increase your temperature? Press the up button. No more complicated parameters to setup; we've already done that hard work for you. The unit has a small footprint, moves around your brewery easily thanks to the included casters and can chill up to four fermenters!
This beast has a large reservoir which provides plenty of cooling power and with quick connect glycol lines, it's easy to add all those fermenters with just a push of the tube.
Cold Crashing/Lagering Temps Capability:
- Up to 60 gallons of total beer spread across up to 4 fermenters
Fermentation Temperature Control Capability:
- Up to 120 gallons of total beer spread across up to 4 fermenters
We recommend purchasing two Spike Glycol Chillers if your brewery's needs exceed either of these limits at any given time.
Specs:
- 1/2 HP (2,300 BTU/hr) cooling capacity
- 120V 3 prong plug
- 5.5A maximum current
- 7 gallon glycol tank
- 18" L x 18" W x 26" H
- Environmentally friendly R290 refrigerant
- Capacity for up to 4 fermenters
- User friendly controller
- 1.5" locking casters included
- Splash proof lid
- Integrated glycol drain port
- Integrated quick connect fittings for glycol lines
- Glycol level sight glass
- Built in cord routing for pumps
- Internal hose connections to fit with our glycol pump (12"x1/2" OD tubes attached to each port)
- Compatible with Spike Flex, Flex+, Conicals and most competitor fermenters with the correct fittings
- Recommended glycol ratio is 2:1 (2gal of water for every 1gal of glycol)
**TC-100 kit with pumps sold separately
Reviews
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United StatesDisappointed - Struggles to stay under 60 in CA. Lagers, nope... Cold Crash, nope. Hopefully Winter Months will be better...
I really want to like this Glycol Chiller... but honestly 3 stars might be to generous. Looks great, dB while running is low, easy setup, casters makes it easy to move, control panel is super simple to set temps... no issues there. However, it wont stay cold enough. Not even close. Full disclosure, I do live in Northern California - our Summers can be pretty hot. I find myself brewing on 90-95 degree days more often then I'd like. The chiller is in an insulated garage. It runs... and runs.. and runs... and the reservoir struggles to stay under 58. It pretty much runs all day and night and still never gets below 58 degrees. Can't cold crash in mid 30's... can't hit lager temps with traditional lager strains. I'm using Nova Lager yeast for my most recent batch - pretty flexible when it comes to temps... but I can't even get my beer in the mid 50's to pitch. Pretty frustrated/disappointed. I don't have experience with other Glycol systems.. so I don't know how this compares. Not exactly sure how I'm going to handle this.. but so far this hasn't made the cold side any easier for me. For California brewers.. or folks brewing in 85+ degree days... I'd give this 2 stars... hopefully it does better in the winter and i can salvage a $1k purchase...
United StatesWorks good
I took my time prior to writing this because I wanted to give it a good test. When it arrived, it was well packaged with thick foam protection. It did have a couple small parts loose in the cabinet, but I'm pretty sure two of them just bounced loose during shipping from overseas - except for a little foam piece that I can't identify. I followed instructions and let it sit for 24 hours before turning on. I'm not sure what was mismeasured, but I was only able to put the 2.5 gallons of the Spike branded glycol with 4 gallons of distilled water and it was slightly over the max mark. The chiller brought the warm mixture down to 28 within several hours. I first brewed 10 gallons of helles and in an 86F garage, the unit initially seemed to struggle with the cold crash to 52. I found that if you move the unit approximately 4 inches from the wall, it operates much better. It had no problem maintaining the 52 fermentation temp. After doing a diacetyl rest at 70, I cold crashed down to 40 - it wouldn't get below 41 even with changing the glycol temp to 26. My next beer was a dunkel. This one, again in roughly 87F garage, cold crashed much better from 75F to 53F in about 3 hours and is holding 53 just fine. I'm happy with the unit. It is quiet, but it does put off some heat.
United StatesNot as good as the DIY unit it replaced.
I was excited about this unit and bought one in Sept. '23 with delivery in March '24. Life got in the way and I finally got to brewing this past weekend. Admittedly, I was using this unit out of spec (I use my chiller to cool a thermal sink bucket of water while using the Spike Condenser lid; this is done through a 30 plate chiller) and I found that this unit couldn't hold the temperatures that the DIY AC/Cooler chiller unit I had did. The Spike Chiller temp got as high as 68 ºF (and the bucket of water got 118 ºF) while my DIY unit never got above 45 ºF (thermal bucket would reach 50 ºF). The DIY unit is faster at bringing the temperature down and holds the temp at 28 ºF, while the Spike unit has too wide a temperature swing before the unit starts to cool (something like 5 ºF). Positives of the unit are that it is on casters, has a drain port, and four connection points (I have two dedicated to the condenser lid chilling and two lines for fermentors. It seems to be holding the Hazy at temp w/o issue while fermenting. The other Spike items I have are excellent and I'm looking at a Tank HLT soon, but this was a serious let down. Buy and build your own unit (I had a 5000 BTU AC unit and cooler unit) the return will be higher at half the cost or more. I've spent the $1000 so, I'm going to find the best way to use this unit, before building another DIY unit.
United StatesNot for warmer climates
Chiller works if you have it in a room temperature area ONLY. I live in Florida and have this in my garage with ambient temps between 88-95 degrees. Chiller ran 24 hours a day for five (5) days and only got two (2) CF15s down to 68 degrees. The glycol bath would only hover to 60-64 degrees. I had to carry (not fun) both full CF15s and the chiller in my house and 2 days later the conicals are down to 50 degrees. Just fair warning that if you brew in warmer climates, this system will NOT work below fermenting temperatures.
United StatesNot for warmer climates
Chiller works if you have it in a room temperature area ONLY. I live in Florida and have this in my garage with ambient temps between 88-95 degrees. Chiller ran 24 hours a day for five (5) days and only got two (2) CF15s down to 68 degrees. The glycol bath would only hover to 60-64 degrees. I had to carry (not fun) both full CF15s and the chiller in my house and 2 days later the conicals are down to 50 degrees. Just fair warning that if you brew in warmer climates, this system will NOT work below fermenting temperatures.
Quiet
We can confidently say the Spike Glycol Chiller is the quietest on the market. This thing softly purrs like a kitten. At just 47 dB, it hums like a refrigerator. It's quieter than most noise machines to fall asleep to. It's quiet, quick and efficient.
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Capacity
A 7-gallon capacity reservoir gives plenty of cooling power to all (up to four) of your fermenters. And with quick connecting glycol lines, it's easy to add all those fermenters with just the push of a tube.
Easy to Use
You need the temperature to go up? Press up. Need the temp to go down? Press down. Change from Celsius to Fahrenheit with just the push of a button. No complicated compressor delay, calibration or complex settings. We figured out all that for you and programmed it into the backend.
Cooling
Our goal was to create a powerful machine that looks great and is a great value. We really like this chart because it shows the range of actual cooling capacities—not overstated cooling capacities. You'll see a lot of our competitor's chillers come in at roughly the 2,300 BTU/hr mark. We found this to be the sweet spot for cooling four homebrewing size fermenters. Anything more is overkill and anything less is going to struggle. While we're not the highest, that was intentional. Basically, we're right where we want to be...
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