Jim's Beer Kit

Ive a perforated s/s sheet in the botom of my mash tun (below) and i tend to get some grain come through after mashing. When its in place i also have a rubber tube i run around the edge of it too. If i press on the sheet as the mash would it does flex a smidge one side and i can see how grain gets t...

If you find the holes are to big you could easily wrap sone 30#mesh around your design easily. This woul stop any hops/seeds/bits getting through.

How do you drain from your pot? Side or bottom?

I just re designed mine. See:

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In there is the filter I made. I drain from the bottom.

What valve mate the one on the cooler?

If that I's the one you mean it's part 8136 from BES

no its not, but it was a quick solution to a problem. ill either re board it if it does go to mush, or plaster n paint the walls. i am intending to add in an extractor over the boiler.

Now I'm up and running again the next step Is to get temp control up via PID controllers. ( I Think )

I'd like auto control of the HLT to know the temp of the MT also thinking about the FV too.

But here I'm stumped. Help n advice appreciated.

Thank you very much

Its the march may pump letting it down. It basically I's pumping from the boiler through 10m of coil then up another meter into the FV. It trickles out.... I'm sure if it came outtwice as fast I'd still be able to cool it.

Did that the day I finished the build lol. (Saturday) Long night that was. But you have to test it don't you ;) Made 56 ltrs of Old Hooky How long did it take to run off 56L? You mean the whole process of run off from the boiler to fv? Full process prob 5 n half hours ish. Can't remember exact time...

Did that the day I finished the build lol. (Saturday) Long night that was. But you have to test it don't you

Made 56 ltrs of Old Hooky

And the cooler to make it all come together. Counter Flow Cooler. The Parts. 30m Hose Pipe (cut to length) 10m of 8mm copper http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/cfc/cfc1.jpg Find somewhere to un roll 10m of copper... then feed the hose pipe over it. Then start re coiling the two together. (used one of...

Righty. Part of the new build was to add a better cooler. Cheers Scotty/Garth To do this i needed a better filter first because the boiled wort would need to pass thru 8mm pipe and the hops would block this if they werent filtered out. Cheers Aleman This is the genius of my filter The Parts http://w...

Finished Version - Completed with Pumps, Cooler, Plumbing in place. http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/brewerymkii/brewerymkii%201.jpg The full stretch. http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/brewerymkii/brewerymkii%202.jpg Closeup of the pump and cooler. http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/brewerymkii/brew...

Firstly I'd like to thank Scotty Mc. Aleman and Garth for their help and insiparation in some of the new bits. Firstly the re build The Brewery Rebuild old Kit In Place Still http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/rebuild/rebuild1.jpg http://www.blacklabale.co.uk/pics/rebuild/rebuild2.jpg Ripped the Sink...

Nothing stuck in it. Stripped it down. Looked fine. Put it back together. Working again.

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