well today went equally as well. Here is Doms brewery pretty much finished
Made a start on Skiptonians Immersion cooler and made the 4 coils. The aluminium strips I'll drill at work tomorrow that are going to be spacers. Went to pluming merchant and bought one or two fittings that we needed (read forgot!), bought some brass hozelock fittings from BnQ for the ends of the IC's, and also went looking for a supplier of perforated stainless steel. Managed to find someone localish and placed an order.
196osh - I looked at RS but decided that I wanted 316 (not 304) for the added corrosion resistance (as the metal is going to be sat in sweet wort for an hour an a half) plus rs is only 1/2 a mm thick.
So we have ordered 2mm hole (40% open area), 316 grade, 1.5mm thick perforated stainless steel (the same that Muddydisco used for his false bums, and I've seen/felt one or two and the quality is superb - mainly due to the thickness of the steel which feels heavy/solid/rigid).
This means we will have enough spare to make about 5 more false bottoms. So here it is...any one looking for a decent quality false bottom here is a head-up, we will be looking at around £50-£60 for the complete false bottom including stainless nuts for lifting the bottom of the deck, stainless handle and a pipe seal around the outside to protect the bare metal and create a tight seal. We will be able to make false bottoms for 50, 60 and 80 litre pots (as we have one of each to get exact measurements from
) but could make them to your own specification. Let me know if your interested. We will be making ours (Skiptonians/Doms and I) first to get good! and will take photos of all three so people will be able to see the quality.
Oh nearly forgot, more or less finished my upgrade from my 50l thermopot to a new 80l thermopot. Need to think about were I am going to install the thermocouple for the PID for the HERMS set up. Might put this on the side so the wires are out of the way.
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Which also reminds me, probably going to have a full stainless brewery for sale soon including a 50litre HLT with sight glasses and 3-piece ball valve and dial thermometer, a 75 or 100litre boiler (not decided yet!) Boiler again with sight glass and ball valve, dial thermometer and copper hop stopper. Plus my original, but trusty 50litre thermopot with, yes you guessed it...3 piece ball vale and thermometer and stainless false bottom.
Pump, spinny sparge arm, IC even malt is optional
again let me know if your interested - or keep an eye out in the for sale section.
, to make 3 false bottoms.
