Shows us your brewery 2015....

[Danny]

The Ringmer Brewery .. Been going for a few years now and producing pretty good beers .. Spinny sparge arm gives me 85% efficiency and the warm cupboard was the most recent addition .. Need to tackle water treatment next and put a filter on the house ..

[Belter]

Is 4 fridges and a freezer enough?

[dontbother]

Worsdell Brewery by mradamallen1, on Flickr

Late 2014 I managed to do a couple of brews in the garage which was a huge improvement from boiling in the kitchen.
Gravity does most of the work, and then a solar pump to go from the kettle to the fermentation bin.

Plan for 2015 is to invest in proper waste plumbing for the sink.

[JamesF]

Belter,

how does the lid remove from your kettle for cleaning?

James

[Belter]

Belter,

how does the lid remove from your kettle for cleaning?

James

The 4" pipe is only attached to the lid. It isn't very heavy so doesn't deform. When I lift the lid forward the pipe comes with it.

[JamesF]

Belter,

how does the lid remove from your kettle for cleaning?

James

The 4" pipe is only attached to the lid. It isn't very heavy so doesn't deform. When I lift the lid forward the pipe comes with it.

Ahhh, I did wonder if that might be the case. Thanks.

James

[ellams]

Here are a few pictures of the brewery I've made, The project is continously on going as I've got so lot's of things to do on it.

It only brews 1 Gallon at a time so I guess it's really a nano brewery.
Brewing so small was intentional as I wanted to brew more often so I could play with different brews and things.

The brewery at the moment consists mainly four items, An Electric heated Hot Liquor Tank, Mashtun , An electric heated copper and an inline wort cooler.
Oh and other bits like a rotating sparge arm, and fermentation enclosure with bubble counters

The whole thing is controlled via an Android tablet and the plan is to make it as automatic as possible, I've only done a few brews so far as I only got it in a position for brewing a few weeks ago.

Anyway here are a few photo's of it as it currently is, It's got it's own blog at http://brew.ellams.com/ if you want to have a more detailed look it it.

I'm currently putting Recipe handling and Brew records in place, While making an automatic cleaning system to go along side it for cleaning my bottles and mini kegs easily.

I'm assuming I don't have permission to post pictures on here yet as only links appear below not the actual pictures.

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[JamesF]

Love that sparge arm. I think one gallon per brew might make qualify it as a femto brewery

James

[JamesF]

The aobve images, to save mucking about:









James

[Hogarth]

Kooky brewery there, Ellams. Love the bubble counter. Is the idea to use this instead of gravity readings to keep track of fermentation?

[ellams]

Pretty Much that's the idea Hogarth, In theory once I have brewed a particular brew once or twice the gravity should follow a similar path.
It does give a good idea currently of when fermentation has stopped, Although I've only done a few brews since making the bubble count function properly.
It allows me to check the status of the brew from my warm house anyway without having to walk to the cold garage
I do take an initial and final gravity reading anyway to check the alcohol.

[dontbother]

Here are a few pictures of the brewery I've made, The project is continously on going as I've got so lot's of things to do on it.

It only brews 1 Gallon at a time so I guess it's really a nano brewery.
Brewing so small was intentional as I wanted to brew more often so I could play with different brews and things.

The brewery at the moment consists mainly four items, An Electric heated Hot Liquor Tank, Mashtun , An electric heated copper and an inline wort cooler.
Oh and other bits like a rotating sparge arm, and fermentation enclosure with bubble counters

The whole thing is controlled via an Android tablet and the plan is to make it as automatic as possible, I've only done a few brews so far as I only got it in a position for brewing a few weeks ago.

I like the idea of having a whole shelf for the relays and electric gubbins. I guess I'd have saved some money if I'd have seen this rather than getting powercon connectors.

[orlando]

Is 4 fridges and a freezer enough?

Not to mention the washing machine, handy for someone like me who has a problem with wort going astray, been times the kayak might have come in handy .

[MongrelBrew]

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Here's mine,currently upgrading bigger boiler for BIAB adding extra sockets and fridge for kegarator

[orlando]

Here's mine,currently upgrading bigger boiler for BIAB adding extra sockets and fridge for kegarator

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