Hi, anyone planning to make their own equipment in 2007. i'm planning to build a motorised mash stirrer.
David
Build Plans
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Frothy
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bod
i'm working on plans for a single level brewery using the same batch sparging techniques i use already, until i get round to sourcing another pump.
i'm fed up lifting 5 gallon pots of boiling wort! had one or two mishaps in the past...
plus i plan to start brewing 10 gallon batches so thats outa the question.
i'll post picks and plans when i'm ready to start.
i'm fed up lifting 5 gallon pots of boiling wort! had one or two mishaps in the past...
plus i plan to start brewing 10 gallon batches so thats outa the question.i'll post picks and plans when i'm ready to start.
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Orfy
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Road Runner
A 2nd boiler.
Have got a 33 litre bucket & 2 x £4 cheapo kettles to use the 2 x 2.2Kw elements from. Just need to get a tap now & fit a hop strainer.
My original single element 1.8Kw 29 litre boiler will then be used as my HLT. As it takes an age to bring my wort to the boil. Hopefuly this should speed up the brewing day a bit.
Have got a 33 litre bucket & 2 x £4 cheapo kettles to use the 2 x 2.2Kw elements from. Just need to get a tap now & fit a hop strainer.
My original single element 1.8Kw 29 litre boiler will then be used as my HLT. As it takes an age to bring my wort to the boil. Hopefuly this should speed up the brewing day a bit.
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SteveD
An entire brewery, top to bottom. It starts with turning my brick shed into a suitable place to brew. I've already put the 'services' in place, ie, mains water supply, drainage, mains power cable.
After that, new roof, door, window, all to be 100% more weatherproof than at present.
Then, tile the interior, lay in the electrics, plumb in water supply, install sink unit, work tops.
With the infrastructure in place, build the brewery to handle a 10 gallon brew length with a 'no heavy lugging' ethos, so liquids will be pumped where necessary, water supply plumbed to deliver it where it's needed. 15mm copper used in the main with 1/4 turn ball valve taps to move water, liquor, and wort around using a magnetic coupled pump(s) where necessary.
One thing I'm thinking about is a mash recirculation circuit to use at the end of the mash to clarify the wort before running into the boiler. I might do this via a heat exchanger to slowly raise the mash temperature at the same time. The main reason is to avoid messing about jugging wort back onto the mash, with all the usual splashing and possible hot side aeration, and to prevent the mash from cooling while this is happening.
On the brewing side, It will have an HLT of about 100L (electric heating), a sanitising tank (electric heating) to deliver steriliser when and where it's needed. These might well be plastic. Coolbox mashtun delivering wort into a 100L S/Steel boiler (propane heating) fan ducted to the outside to keep humidity levels reasonable. There will also be a smaller S/Steel boiler (30L) for 'multiple mashing', as I want to get into the old practice of making two beers from a strong mash, first runnings to make old keeping beers like IPA, etc, and then 'normal' beers from the second runnings and sparge. The smaller volume of strong stuff gets boiled in the smaller boiler, the bigger volume of weaker wort in the bigger boiler.
Cooling by immersion or counterflow..haven't decided. Counterflow is a bit more elegant and involves less 'movement of things'.
Fermentation of running beers in the usual plastic, but the keeping beers I'll ferment in stainless steel for reasons of sterility.
Keeping beers would be racked into brown screw stoppered quarts (I have a stash of those) or I might go the Cornie route.
Running beers into the usual King kegs.
I'm interested in the idea of converting a fridge into a temperature controlled fermentation and beer storage/dispensing 'unit', by replacing the thermostat with one that works in the correct range 0c - 40c, available from RS supplies for about £15.00 according to an article in the current issue of Brewer's Contact.
I might bring this master plan to fruition by about this time next year...meanwhile it's the same old struggle with plastic buckets, pipes, and jugs in the kitchen, water on the floor, mess everywhere, things gone missing, etc.
After that, new roof, door, window, all to be 100% more weatherproof than at present.
Then, tile the interior, lay in the electrics, plumb in water supply, install sink unit, work tops.
With the infrastructure in place, build the brewery to handle a 10 gallon brew length with a 'no heavy lugging' ethos, so liquids will be pumped where necessary, water supply plumbed to deliver it where it's needed. 15mm copper used in the main with 1/4 turn ball valve taps to move water, liquor, and wort around using a magnetic coupled pump(s) where necessary.
One thing I'm thinking about is a mash recirculation circuit to use at the end of the mash to clarify the wort before running into the boiler. I might do this via a heat exchanger to slowly raise the mash temperature at the same time. The main reason is to avoid messing about jugging wort back onto the mash, with all the usual splashing and possible hot side aeration, and to prevent the mash from cooling while this is happening.
On the brewing side, It will have an HLT of about 100L (electric heating), a sanitising tank (electric heating) to deliver steriliser when and where it's needed. These might well be plastic. Coolbox mashtun delivering wort into a 100L S/Steel boiler (propane heating) fan ducted to the outside to keep humidity levels reasonable. There will also be a smaller S/Steel boiler (30L) for 'multiple mashing', as I want to get into the old practice of making two beers from a strong mash, first runnings to make old keeping beers like IPA, etc, and then 'normal' beers from the second runnings and sparge. The smaller volume of strong stuff gets boiled in the smaller boiler, the bigger volume of weaker wort in the bigger boiler.
Cooling by immersion or counterflow..haven't decided. Counterflow is a bit more elegant and involves less 'movement of things'.
Fermentation of running beers in the usual plastic, but the keeping beers I'll ferment in stainless steel for reasons of sterility.
Keeping beers would be racked into brown screw stoppered quarts (I have a stash of those) or I might go the Cornie route.
Running beers into the usual King kegs.
I'm interested in the idea of converting a fridge into a temperature controlled fermentation and beer storage/dispensing 'unit', by replacing the thermostat with one that works in the correct range 0c - 40c, available from RS supplies for about £15.00 according to an article in the current issue of Brewer's Contact.
I might bring this master plan to fruition by about this time next year...meanwhile it's the same old struggle with plastic buckets, pipes, and jugs in the kitchen, water on the floor, mess everywhere, things gone missing, etc.
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mysterio
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bod
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Andy
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I was pondering the same thing and was going to take a battery powered jigsaw I've got and cut the sheet up in the carparkmysterio wrote:Might finally get my fermentation chiller done if i can find a way to transport a massive piece of polystyrene from B&Q. Apart from that I'll probably get a few more cornys.
Dan!