"Money no object" home brew equipment

[Weejock]

I'm interested in what equipment is available for home brewing if my pockets were deep!

What's available out there that would fit in my garage if I won the lottery? What are your wishlists?

[MightyMouth]

If money is no object you could have a commercial brewery. If I won the euro millions I probably wouldn't change much in my set up. It makes good beer, its easy to clean, what more do you need?

[floydmeddler]

So... you've won the lottery? Buy this:

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then invite me round for a brewday!

[Weejock]

Mightymouth, apologies if you have posted this elswhere, what is your set-up?

[MightyMouth]

Basic stainless steel 70L Stock Pot kettle with a tripod style propane burner and a 60l Insulated Bane Marie Mash tun.

[Aleman]

Possibly something like this that a few of us brewed on earlier this year

The Grain bill


450Kg Pale (18 Sacks)
25Kg Amber (1 Sack)
25Kg Munich (1Sack)
12Kg Caramalt
Here is the copper - 18BBL


And here is the mash tun and 20BBL HLT, with its spinny sparger


And the rather fancy control panel


Crushing The Grain


Well not all of it it was only the Munich that was whole. And then here we are doughing in


And 21 Bags Later



Ok so that was a bit too easy . . . get on to breaking up those lumps.



While they were doughing in someone had to clean out the big copper

Before runningoff the wort as this was a partigyle we wanted to pump some of the first runnings to the small copper . . . which was in the 'old' brewery next door . . "Got Any O's?""

From the Mash Tun the wort runs off into this automatic underback

So from the grist we decided to run off about 2.5 BBL of the first runnings into the small copper and boil this down for a barley wine

. . . so using an approximation of double the hopping rate (.7668Kg/BBL)for the Simmonds bitter gives us 400g, 800g, 1200g, 1600g, 2000g And counting of Fuggles

Stir in the hops, and finally 3Kg of hops in for bittering . . . Just wait for it to reduce now.


Back to the big plant . . . We stopped the run off into the underback and reset all the piping . . . the wort at this stage is really sticky (OG 1.096) and very sweet . . . its hot too, so lets start filling the large copper

And at this pit some bright spark decided to ask the obvious question . . . is the hop filter in place? . . . Of course not

After the hop filter was expertly fitted by Phil, we continued to run off a considerable amount of wort, even when we had 14BBL at 1.051 in the copper we still had runnings of 5.2Brix . . . time to boil off some wort before adding the first lot of fuggles (8.8Kg!!) as we want to try and hit the target gravity of 1.062 In the meantime Phil pointed out that someone had to clean out the FV, Blink Bravely volunteed

Oh those 18BBL Fermenters have a ladder Inside! We then Got Carl to Dig out the Mash Tun

Once the FV was clean and we had boiled off the extra wort . . . plus adding the 8.8Kg of Fuggles for bittering and 2.2Kg of Goldings for Flavour we ran off the bitter wort to the FV

Phil had brewed 6BBL of mild on Monday, which was going to provide the yeast for the Simmonds Bitter . . .which mean it needed to be skimmed . . . as its a 6BBL brew in an 18BBL fermenter we needed a custom Skimming gadget to actually skim the yeast.

Which gave us 10Kg of nice yeast barm to pitch into the Simmonds

So here it is 14BBL at 1.057

[Aleman]

A few more pictures courtesy of other people at the event.

Andrew started the day as he intended to go on with a Brewers Breakfast . . .In the meantime that is yours truly in the copper



Phil had done 6BBL of mild on the Monday . . . and the apprentice had been told to leave things for us to clean up . . . Phil wouldn't like to deny us All the pleasures of brewing




As we got closer to the end of the mash I thought it was the better part of valour to climb out of the mash tun . . . . Apparently its not possible to do it the way I did . . . unfortunately Andrew got in teh way of the really funny pic



Still the mash was over and the kettles full . . .volunteers were thin on the ground to dig out the tun. . . Keep digging Carl and we will find someone to take over



The waste grain was transfered into these tubs to feed the cows . . . keep the cows Well fed as they go great on the BBQ :party:



Keep Digging Carl . . . Someone will be along soon



In the meantime Blink decided that cleaning the FV would be a really good way of avoiding digging out the mash tun






Blink you need a scrubby to clean the FV!!

[Weejock]

Basic stainless steel 70L Stock Pot kettle with a tripod style propane burner and a 60l Insulated Bane Marie Mash tun.

Impressed! I'll get there one day, in the meantime all I share with you is the orange B&Q bucket (are they not awful?) and the Youngs FV.

Can I ask, where did you get the stock pot kettle and mash tun from?

[MightyMouth]

I got them from ebay, Nordic Optical was the seller, they don't sell on eBay uk anymore but you can get them from eBay france

[Weejock]

Possibly something like this that a few of us brewed on earlier this year

Aleman, blown away! Is that a Craft Brewery you are running, or what?

[Weejock]

I got them from ebay, Nordic Optical was the seller, they don't sell on eBay uk anymore but you can get them from eBay france

Thanks Mightymouth, next payday guess where i'm surfing...

[Weejock]

Is this right? mash tun = http://cgi.ebay.fr/MARMITE-THERMOS-CAPA ... 911.c0.m14

Stock pot kettle = http://cgi.ebay.fr/MARMITE-THERMOS-CAPA ... 911.c0.m14

Do you think the stock kettle would heat from the wok ring on my (gas) range cooker?

Sorry for the daft questions, I'd like to think I'll be an expert brewer in the next 10 years or so...

[prolix]

I use the 38.5 litre one as a mash tun will do 10gal brew lengths easily and has tap hole already (stainless it a git to cut) I also have a 70 L as boiler and another as HLT for same reason, I use electric to boil they are superb well worth the cost and insulation is brilliant.

[Aleman]

Possibly something like this that a few of us brewed on earlier this year

Aleman, blown away! Is that a Craft Brewery you are running, or what?

Yes it is a craft brewery . . . unfortunately not mine . . . Its based in the wilds of Essex, and I would guess that Wibblers Crafty Badger should soon be making an appearance in Grays and Sons pubs throughout the Dengie region fairly soon. . . . If not ask for it! . . . Its based on the Durden Park Recipe for Simmonds Bitter (1880) . . . and the sweet wort tasted incredible during running off. The Barley wine may very well be appearing at Winterfests next year . . . although it may well be available in bottle as well next year. I know the head brewer is in talks with the Co-op regarding local distribution of his bottled beers

[mixbrewery]

Local shiny kit available if you fancy a viewing

Next brewday is currently planned for Tuesday next week.

PM if your interested.