Model: Chugger - IN STOCK

The addition of the full line of Chugger Pumps and accessories rounds out our offering of water and wort flow related items so you don't have to piece together your brewery from as many vendors. The Chugger stainless steel headed pumps represents the first affordable pump designed specifically for homebrewers. Get stainless for the competition's polysulfone price. They all come with the mounting base plate and cord/plug. 

Differences (as chosen in the dropdown below):

• The  INLINE head has 1/2" male NPT on the inlet and outlet.
• The stainless center inlet head has a 3/4" NPT male on the center inlet and a 1/2" male NPT on the outlet. NOTE: FREE SS 3/4" to 1/2" female converter included with this pump. This allows you to thread in a hose barb or a Type F camlock, sold separately.

If you're looking for the plastic head version of this pump, be aware that we did NOT restock these.

Choose Type

Stainless Inline$140.00 USD Stainless Center Inlet$145.00 USD

We now have these pumps in 230 volt... Press this add to cart button to request the pump to be 230V. Note: no plug is included on the end of the cord. You must add this yourself to conform to whatever standard you have in your country.

Some notes on using mag drive pumps:

These are not self priming pumps. The pump head must be flooded with liquid prior to turning the pump on. The easiest way to do this is to let liquid fill the inlet hose prior to connecting it to the pump. If the pump squeels or makes loud noises, shut it down and make sure the head is full of liquid.

If you wish to regulate the flow rate, it must be done on the output side of the pump.

Use teflon tape on all threaded connections and be very careful not to cross thread when applying metal fittings to the polysulfone heads. Stripping or cross-threading the polysulfone or galling the threads on the stainless head is not covered under warranty.

Orientation: We get a lot of questions regarding the best way to mount and connect hoses to these pumps. First, we recommend mounting the pumps so the outlet faces horizontally to the right. If this is not possible, the next best orientation is output facing up. The other two options will get air trapped in the pump head and cause priming issues.

Connections: The options are nearly endless given the pipe thread input and output ports. You can hard plumb the system with stainless or copper tubing or use flexible hoses. We use silicone tubing with 100% camlock disconnects on everything for flexibility in connectivity and easy breakdown for cleaning. By far the most important thing is to use high flow, non-restrictive components with the least number of elbows as possible on the input side. Here is how we recommed connecting hoses to the pump (the camlocks, valve, and barbs are available on this website in other sections):

NOTE: If you get the center inlet pump instead, it comes with a reducing coupling so the only thing that would change is the type A camlock would be replaced with a type F on the input side.