Ok Ladies and gents this is the plan so far.
I already have a 100l SS Boiler built and used a couple of times in the past. Im going to convert it to bottom draining , add a new stainless braided hop strainer and a lovely thermowell for a PT100. This will be permanently mounted on a purpose made bench with an extractor system blowing steam outside...
Initially I will have flow and return plumbing for my twin coil immersion chiller but when cash allows I will have to get me a therminator... its a must...
Next to the boiler bench will be a tall insulated fermentation cupboard with 50mm insulations The heating side will be a tube heater but the cold side ( and I still have to look at this properly) I want to try and set up a radiator with cold glycol pumped from a beerchiller . A couple of small extractors will pull the cold air into the cupboard... this should allow the space under the FV which will be 120L conical, will make a great place to keep full cornies under pressure for force carbonation and later bottling, should be a very controllable environment for this)
The alternative will be to follow Vossy1 and fix a double product coil in the FV and cool the wort direct..
Next in line will be the MT which I already have built its a 70L Thermobox converted and fitted with a SS false bottom by Muddydisco way back last year. Initially Im not adding a herms but I will be building my plumbing to accommodate one as an add on.
I want to get brewing again asap and doing the Herms thing will add a couple of months to my build... and Im thirsty,,, very thirsty..
I intend to build my MT in on a shelf about a foot off the floor.. and gravity feed it from my HLT( 70L SS which I have) on shelf above. In the cavity under the MT the pump will live. Its a sooper dooper mutts nuts of a pump I bought way back from a forum member, its a 12 v mag coupled pump and way overspeced for a brewery . I shall feed the pump through a manifold system which wil allow me to select the vessel that the liquids are flowing from. The outlet will feed another manifold which will terminate in cam lock couplings. This will allow me to feed liquid into whatever vessel I want. i.e boiler, therminator, HX ( when I build it) and finally into the FV, and to dismantle the various elements for cleaning , maitainence and shiney additions..
Everything will be PID and PT100 controlled with an additional PID as a temp readout from within the mash
The first phase is to build the Boiler shelf and the Fermentation cupboard.. phase 1 is planned for the new year and I will post piccies as I go... Of course this is all dependant on all the usual proviso's-wife doesn't notice, she doesn't see the credit card statement and she believes me when I say Im building it out of some old **** I had laying around which just happened to buff up really well !!!!!! Wish me luck peeps..
I already have a 100l SS Boiler built and used a couple of times in the past. Im going to convert it to bottom draining , add a new stainless braided hop strainer and a lovely thermowell for a PT100. This will be permanently mounted on a purpose made bench with an extractor system blowing steam outside...
Initially I will have flow and return plumbing for my twin coil immersion chiller but when cash allows I will have to get me a therminator... its a must...
Next to the boiler bench will be a tall insulated fermentation cupboard with 50mm insulations The heating side will be a tube heater but the cold side ( and I still have to look at this properly) I want to try and set up a radiator with cold glycol pumped from a beerchiller . A couple of small extractors will pull the cold air into the cupboard... this should allow the space under the FV which will be 120L conical, will make a great place to keep full cornies under pressure for force carbonation and later bottling, should be a very controllable environment for this)
The alternative will be to follow Vossy1 and fix a double product coil in the FV and cool the wort direct..
Next in line will be the MT which I already have built its a 70L Thermobox converted and fitted with a SS false bottom by Muddydisco way back last year. Initially Im not adding a herms but I will be building my plumbing to accommodate one as an add on.
I want to get brewing again asap and doing the Herms thing will add a couple of months to my build... and Im thirsty,,, very thirsty..
I intend to build my MT in on a shelf about a foot off the floor.. and gravity feed it from my HLT( 70L SS which I have) on shelf above. In the cavity under the MT the pump will live. Its a sooper dooper mutts nuts of a pump I bought way back from a forum member, its a 12 v mag coupled pump and way overspeced for a brewery . I shall feed the pump through a manifold system which wil allow me to select the vessel that the liquids are flowing from. The outlet will feed another manifold which will terminate in cam lock couplings. This will allow me to feed liquid into whatever vessel I want. i.e boiler, therminator, HX ( when I build it) and finally into the FV, and to dismantle the various elements for cleaning , maitainence and shiney additions..
Everything will be PID and PT100 controlled with an additional PID as a temp readout from within the mash
The first phase is to build the Boiler shelf and the Fermentation cupboard.. phase 1 is planned for the new year and I will post piccies as I go... Of course this is all dependant on all the usual proviso's-wife doesn't notice, she doesn't see the credit card statement and she believes me when I say Im building it out of some old **** I had laying around which just happened to buff up really well !!!!!! Wish me luck peeps..
