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Brewed this today
3.5Kg Pale Malt
400g Crystal Malt
40g Fuggles 90 mins
40g Goldings 10 mins (pellets)
Yeast WLP001 – California.

Original Gravity: 1.041
Bitterness: 32 EBU
Colour: 23 EBC

All went reasonably well except my SS Valentines arm leaks and is too heavy for my mash tun . I have some 12mm SS pipe so I need to make a new one before the next brew. Also need to complete the automatic underback, and buy a Stainless FV, which I'll get as soon as catering-service-fr reply to my emails
Obligatory pictures below

Nice looking brewery there chap!

What's a Valentine BTW - and do you have closer pic of your mash return manifold?

adm wrote:Nice looking brewery there chap!

Thanks, still a lot of work to do, my aim is to have some degree of automation over the next year or two

adm wrote:What's a Valentine BTW

This is my Valentines arm. the idea is that the you adjust the arm to set the level of liquid in the tun. The level in the tun is maintained at approx the same level as the "T" piece. checkout THIS POST

adm wrote:do you have closer pic of your mash return manifold

The return manifold is a standard "H" configuration closer picture is below, I'm not particularly happy with my return manifold so hopefully a friend is making me a stainless one.

Ah.....

Ta for the pics.

I'm still not sure I get the Valentine concept...but what's the problem with the manifold? I was thinking about making one just like that as my current design is rubbish....

2 reasons
1 - I always end up fiddling about to make sure that the wort comes out of more than one output, not that it really matters
2 - I'm trying to remove as much copper from the brewery as possible, so I plan to have a straight piece of 12mm pipe with a stainless version of THIS