The new brewery is starting to take shape...
The brewstand is now complete, varnished and in position. I would have preferred to have wheels but because of the drain the garage floor slopes, so I need to have height adjustable feet.
The HLT is nearly complete - just need to sort out the electrics and calibrate the sight-glass
The HERMS heat exchanger and the Mash tun are pretty much complete
The complete brewery
The new FV
One of the main objectives of the brewery was to make the brewery simple and easy to use. To prevent having to lift the boiler to drain beer into the FV, I put the boiler on the same level as the mash-tun and then plan to use the HERMS recirculation pump to transfer the wort. I added some pipe and then, by moving the HERMS return pipe, and adding a shor ttransfer hose, the wort can be transferred, like this
I can then use gravity to drop the wort from the boiler into the FV. The tap in the pipe, is to allow me to take wort samples for gravity and ph measurement during the transfer.
Now, just need to finish off the electrics, test for water tightness and do a dry run! The clock is ticking as the old brewery is no more and beer stocks are decreasing...
Enjoy it 
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