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Northern Brewer Silver Serpent Stainless Immersion Chiller
A pre-assembled stainless immersion coil with angled water connections and flexible leads.
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The equipment in use
How this item fits your brewing setup
The Silver Serpent cools the wort while it remains in the kettle. Water runs through the stainless coil instead of wort being transferred through a hidden internal passage. Choose this arrangement when you want to handle and clean the outside of the coil directly after the brewing session.
Its distinctive connection layout angles the water leads down outside the kettle. Barbed fittings and hose clamps are supplied, and the selected reference arrives assembled with tubing. That layout is intended to keep the water connections outside the vessel; it is not proof that leaks or hose kinks are impossible.
The written fit dimensions are 9 in wide and 16 in tall to the bend. Check the kettle opening, liquid level and space around the connections. If clearance is tight, confirm the complete assembled envelope rather than treating the height to the bend as the height of every attached part.
The source describes placing the clean coil in the kettle before the boil finishes. Follow the supplied preparation instructions without assuming a guaranteed sterilization result or a universal timing rule. Compare the copper Clover for its different material and clover-shaped coil, or the Anvil for a stainless coil supplied with a separate hose length and fittings.
The selected reference
Specifications & supplied details
- Brand
- Northern Brewer
- Product
- Silver Serpent immersion chiller
- Coil material
- Stainless steel
- Selected supplied state
- Assembled with tubing, barbed fittings and hose clamps
- Connection design
- Drop-angle water leads
- Written fit dimensions
- 9 in wide;16 in to bend
- Water-source fitting
- Standard garden-hose connection
Before and during use
Advice for this reference
Before you choose
Check coil access and height to the bend in the actual kettle.
Also check
Confirm the actual water-source fitting; a separate indoor faucet adapter may be needed.
Documented use & care
The supplier describes putting the clean coil into the kettle before the boil ends; use the supplied product-preparation instructions.
Connections & scope
Fit and useful limits
- No exact coil-tube diameter, fixed cooling time, leak-proof system or kink-free guarantee.
- Check this chiller’s own coil dimensions, faucet connection and immersion instructions. The separately sold 50 ft Silver Serpent has different specifications and does not establish the fit or cooling performance of this offer.
Questions about this product
What else should you know?
Are the flexible hoses for the wort?
This immersion arrangement carries cooling water through the coil while wort remains outside it in the kettle.
Is it the 50 ft Silver Serpent version?
Confirm the tubing length for this selected offer. The dimensions of the separately sold 50 ft version do not tell you the length of this coil.
Will the garden-hose connection fit an indoor mixer tap directly?
Not necessarily. Check the actual faucet and adapter requirement before choosing the water hookup.
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