Fountain Pump for Wort Chilling

[Chupa LaHomebrew]

My current wort chilling setup is an immersion coil chiller, with a small pre-chiller which I put in a pot of ice water once the wort has hilled below 85 degrees or so.

I find that during the summer months, this still only allows me to get my beer down to 78 degrees, so I still have to throw the carboy in the kegerator for a while to get to pitching temp.

I'd like to be able to get to lager pitching temps straight from the wort cooling phase, if at all possible. So I want to try a normal wort chill using faucet water, then switch to running ice water through the wort chiller using a fountain pump.

My question is, what kind of immersion pump should I try to get? it seems like any pump with a flow rate of about 60 gallons per hour should be fine, right?

Thanks,
Chupa

[Petedadink]

get at least a 150 gph. I have a 60 and it didnt seem like enough.

[Chupa LaHomebrew]

What sort of applications did you use the fountain pump for? Chilling only, or other things too?

[Chupa LaHomebrew]

Does anybody have a specific model to recommend? Thanks.

[Henning1966]

here try this one pete said about 150 well this one looks like it would work and you can vary the speed with the dial on it http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=45305