brewpirate
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Well when my brewing partner and I meet we quickly clicked and we started making killer beers. We both improved quickly and we decided to pull our resources together and build a nice 3 vessel single tier system. As the quality of our beers increased we decided it was time to rebuild and add some new toys.
Today we started the rebuild and here is what's planned:
- New burners and propane manifold system as well move to natural gas. We will be using BG-14 burners which are rated at 210,000 BTUs.
- Camlocks, we used plastic quick disconnects but time for more something easier that would not restrict the flow.
- Hard Plumbed with 1/2 copper and all valve controlled. No more jumper hoses!
- RIMs temp control, a 1500w 120v inline electric element will monitor and maintain the mash temp. Initially controlled by a pid but will be arduino controlled.
- custom hop back to pack in that aroma
- prechiller in a 5g igloo with 25ft of copper tube will help with our stubborn ground temp
- temp logging, the arduino will also data log the mash temps and boil temps and duration for future recipe replication.
- inline sight glass so we can monitor the wort color
- hot liquor tank sight glass to better calculate how much water we have and added.
- 2 inline pumps so there is never a problem with flow or priming.
- recirculation bypass so we never put excess pressure on the grain bed and maintain our desired flow
- some awesome things you just have to wait for!
Original Setup - Single tier, 2 pumps with plastic quick disconnects. It works but we want more!
Camlocks - no more plastic connections
Rough plumbing setup - all 1/2 copper controlled by ball valves and no hoses. The bypass after the pumps route excess flow back in front of the pumps preventing the pumps from collapsing the grainbed.
Metal!
End of day 1. New center section is built out and tippy setup is mocked up ready for testing.
What is a tippy? The mashtun tips back allowing for easy cleaning. Scooping up 35lb of dry grains now soaked are not much fun.
What are we going to use to boil? BG-14 a 10" 210,000 BTU burner :) This should help expedite heating
Today we started the rebuild and here is what's planned:
- New burners and propane manifold system as well move to natural gas. We will be using BG-14 burners which are rated at 210,000 BTUs.
- Camlocks, we used plastic quick disconnects but time for more something easier that would not restrict the flow.
- Hard Plumbed with 1/2 copper and all valve controlled. No more jumper hoses!
- RIMs temp control, a 1500w 120v inline electric element will monitor and maintain the mash temp. Initially controlled by a pid but will be arduino controlled.
- custom hop back to pack in that aroma
- prechiller in a 5g igloo with 25ft of copper tube will help with our stubborn ground temp
- temp logging, the arduino will also data log the mash temps and boil temps and duration for future recipe replication.
- inline sight glass so we can monitor the wort color
- hot liquor tank sight glass to better calculate how much water we have and added.
- 2 inline pumps so there is never a problem with flow or priming.
- recirculation bypass so we never put excess pressure on the grain bed and maintain our desired flow
- some awesome things you just have to wait for!
Original Setup - Single tier, 2 pumps with plastic quick disconnects. It works but we want more!
Camlocks - no more plastic connections
Rough plumbing setup - all 1/2 copper controlled by ball valves and no hoses. The bypass after the pumps route excess flow back in front of the pumps preventing the pumps from collapsing the grainbed.
Metal!
End of day 1. New center section is built out and tippy setup is mocked up ready for testing.
What is a tippy? The mashtun tips back allowing for easy cleaning. Scooping up 35lb of dry grains now soaked are not much fun.
What are we going to use to boil? BG-14 a 10" 210,000 BTU burner :) This should help expedite heating