brew day at torchwood 24.6.07

[notassuch]

Quality pics, Torchwood.
Great post! Your set up is marvellous.

[SteveD]

the plate chiller is great but it really needs a set of brackets made up or a cradle to hold is as once all the hose are fitted it a pain to keep in a stable position .but iam working on that one at the moment too.

you won,t regreat the purchase its alot easier IMO than those emmersion coils .

richard

It arrived this morning. Very nice piece of kit, and suitably shiny, together with a weldless mashtun thermometer and a PH meter

Cheers Ross!

[J_P]

Edit...i've just seen the problem, you ran off the mash before adding your sparge water, I thought this is what you had to do originally, you dont.

You mash, then top up with sparge water before running off to make up your first batch volume in the tun, then you run off batch one, then add more sparge water to the tun and run off batch 2.

You only collect 2 lots of wort from the mash tun.

So when you made the suggestion that you will sparge just the once you are quite right, although I have been refering to the 2 run offs as batches which may have confused the issues, basically you are incorporating the first batch sparge in with the initial run off

Ah! I guess I haven't been batch sparging at all then, more fly sparging with a jug! No wonder my efficiency has been so high. You live and learn!

[torchwood brewery]

hi DaaB
i must be the biggest wally brain .i down loaded that and read it but i was stupid and followed the beersmith schedule and stuffed up. now i know where i went wrong it won,t happen again.

richard

[Vossy1]

It arrived this morning. Very nice piece of kit, and suitably shiny

Take it from me SD...fit a filter of some sort to stop hops getting INTO your plate chiller

I spent 1/2 an hour trying to rid debris from my pc at the weekend, that's despite flushing and reverse flushing after use on the previous brew

To get the pc to work efficiently you need a pump that's up to the job, at least 5+ ltr/hr IMO.

All the above has been learned painfully through experience and a number of brews

[torchwood brewery]

HI V

i didn,t have that worry myself i put a s/s scoarer on the boiler tube and ran mine off via gravity also i used a hop sock in the kettle to rid it of debris from the hops .the trub was very minimal and after whirlpooling it stayed put .
not saying that nothing went through but it was not noticable . i could be wrong but after back flushing with water from HLT no sludge or debris were present . i might have been lucky . also these mash master chillout plate chillers are very open with with a great run alot of brewers in australia use them with no pump .
but if in doubt SD use a filter just to be safe as the vossy1 said.

richard