Bennachie brewery new build

[garwatts]

Made grain filter yesterday.
22mm copper, will be 50mm in from side of mash tun on all sides, its huge!

What's the brew in your picture album? Looks good, hell of a head on it What yeast did you use in there?

[adm]

Made grain filter yesterday.
22mm copper, will be 50mm in from side of mash tun on all sides, its huge!

Oo-errr Vicar - that is a big one you have there. Fnarr fnarr.

[pantsmachine]

Made grain filter yesterday.
22mm copper, will be 50mm in from side of mash tun on all sides, its huge!

What's the brew in your picture album? Looks good, hell of a head on it What yeast did you use in there?

Its a repitched Belgian Abbey yeast(WLP 300 i think). It did indeed take off like a rocket! Still got it in the fridge for next time

Made grain filter yesterday.
22mm copper, will be 50mm in from side of mash tun on all sides, its huge!

Oo-errr Vicar - that is a big one you have there. Fnarr fnarr.

Double Entendre day is it? Must be Friday!

[PaulStat]

Blimey, so intend to sell some of this to your local pubs then? I presume you need a license to do that?

[pantsmachine]

I have the company name but have put the company to sleep for a while until i am ready. Once i reach the point where it becomes a real thing and all hoops will be jumped through.

I Can't believe this, just had a phone call from a dreadfully polite English chap asking if he could come for a tour of the Bennachie Brewery, then he wanted to buy some! Had to explain not selling yet and that my garage is the brewery at the moment! Quite surreal i thought it was one fo my mates to start with. Hopefully that co-incidence is a good portent!

Stainless steel Valves in place on fermenter. 1.5 ltr losses below draw off point.

[pantsmachine]

I took my big kettle round to my local fab shop along with a couple of 316 1" bsp barrels. Asked them to weld in the barrels where i needed them and to make me a new cover in aluminium to speed up boil times. Got a phone call after 3 hours saying its ready. Asked how much, told 'a few beers when you are rolling'. Took them a selection of current examples in fridge and well chuffed all round!

2 of 1" barrels

Cover made from Stainless not aluminium! Also nice little retaining lugs

Overall view


Running total
stainless copper £96 incl delivery
igloo mash tun £110 incl delivery
conical fermenter £92 incl delivery
3 of 3mtr lengths 22mm copper pipe £20
Various copper fitting for manifold builds £20
Carbon steel flatbar & box section for fermenter stand(incl 4 adjustable feet)£16
SIlver paint,drill bits and bolts for above £25
Stainless 1" ball valve £10
2 of 80 ltr opaque HDPE containers c/w lids £26
3 of Speck fluid pumps £129
To date £544

[pantsmachine]

While the kettle was at the fab shop i cracked on with the fermenter frame. Did a swap with a mate. He gets my paper stripper and i get his welder(really like the barter economy)! Been a few years since i did any fabrication in mild steel, forgot how black it is! Quite glad with the way it turned out.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

You're building up quite an impressive set-up there.

[pantsmachine]

Thanks very much. I enjoy the challenge mentally and financially. Hope the thread helps others down the road.

Whether that be 'Pantsmachine did it like this let's try something similar' or 'Now then class, here we have the Ultimate in how not to build a brewery!

[pantsmachine]

Got some fittings for the mash tun, also picked up a water filter sales book.





Nobody has asked me where i am going to do the final installation yet. Answers on a postcard please!

When i doubt myself i look at pictures like this and realise i am pretty normal...
http://bendbrewingbeer.com/Sept08Brewer ... ashTun.jpg

[OldSpeckledBadger]

Answers on a postcard please!

You're going to install it on a postcard?

Sorry, couldn't resist that one

[yashicamat]

That brewery is going to be a steal! Incredible that you've managed to get it so far for so little. Keep up the good work! Can't wait to hear how it works out.

[pantsmachine]

Answers on a postcard please!

You're going to install it on a postcard?

Sorry, couldn't resist that one

LOL, The build is going to go quiet for a few days as the pumps have just left the states. Probably buy more steel next week and fab the mash tun support frame. Built the hop filter and scrubbed out the inside of the kettle yeterday. Also bought a temp valve for the kettle(brass).

Running total
stainless copper £96 incl delivery
igloo mash tun £110 incl delivery
conical fermenter £92 incl delivery
3 of 3mtr lengths 22mm copper pipe £20
Various copper fitting for manifold builds £20
Carbon steel flatbar & box section for fermenter stand(incl 4 adjustable feet)£16
SIlver paint,drill bits and bolts for above £25
Stainless 1" ball valve £10
2 of 80 ltr opaque HDPE containers c/w lids £26
Temp kettle valve and hop filter fittings £20
Various fittings for mash tun and kettle connection £30
Stainless filter mesh £8
3 of Speck fluid pumps £129
To date £602

[befuggled]

Damn!! Pants, I wish I had found this thread a few weeks ago – it would have saved me many hours of brain strain…

Your drawing is quite similar to what I have come up with (knicked many of the ideas from other contributors here – thanks very much to you all!) albeit mine is on a scale of between a half and seventh of yours.

I had not thought of a stuck sparge line, will be trying a Leyand CF chiller, no test points and boring old fermenters for the time being.
I hope to use a single pump where you have two coming out of the copper.
I have also knicked Garysmiff’s RIM but am having trouble getting a suitable cartridge heater at the mo.
I am planning to use the second Speck to drive the CF with four extra valves to reverse flow direction so that I can circulate via the boiler for cleaning – it has a max head of 15m so it should work. If not the Nilfisk 150 bar pressure washer will find itself connected up.

What are you doing for the Aerator?
I have got a PT10 of O2 but would prefer a more hygienic injection method.
I used a stainless micro pipe with a very tight constriction to get a fine jet into the liquid before (nitrogen into Guinness clone) but the idea of using an air stone is horrendous – all those nice little voids for nasties to grow in!

[Aleman]

What Beerbloke does with his 18BBL fermenters is to use the wort transfer pump (Sanitised by pumping hot wort thorough the Plate Chiller) connected to the outlet of the FV and pumps back up to the CIP inlet (Sprayball removed). . . . plenty of aeration