What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Pennine]

I’m starting with a bitter. This needs finishing now, it’s well past it’s best. As it happens I only have another two or three pints to suffer

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If you quit forking around with those wires, tubes and drawings and get to drinking this wouldn't be an issue.

 

[Pennine]

Ah...sort of...so you're going to pipe glycol/coolant round the shed..?..what and how does heating work?
Sorry for being... thick.

Ha I have the same question and how does the cooling work?

Edit had a read makes a little more sense.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Ah...sort of...so you're going to pipe glycol/coolant round the shed..?..what and how does heating work?
Sorry for being... thick.

That’s right.

Heating will be the same control panel and will use same ITCs. As well as driving the motorised valves and fans from the cooling outputs, it will use the heating outputs to switch regular mains sockets on/off that will be in the fermentation cupboard and in the shed. I can then plug in what I like, probably tube heaters.

See in the picture below (partly boxed control panel), the three white leads. The one on the left is power in and the other two are heater outputs for the shed and the fermenter. Each up to 2.5KW.



And...I’m having another bitter

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Ha I have the same question and how does the cooling work?

Edit had a read makes a little more sense.

Have a look at my brewday posts for more info.

 

[Clint]

Ah..yes...another bitter!
I have retrieved such from the brew shed...
I get it now..
Wonder if I could do the same with the original idea of one of those portable Aircon units and an inkbird type thing...?

 

[Pennine]

Have a look at my brewday posts for more info.

I did and it was all a little over my head although I get the bigger picture now.

Note my temp control held together with a weightlifting belt, duct tape and a can of wd40. My engineering education was you can fix anything with duct tape and wd40.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Ah..yes...another bitter!
I have retrieved such from the brew shed...
I get it now..
Wonder if I could do the same with the original idea of one of those portable Aircon units and an inkbird type thing...?

You could but virtually all air-con units won’t go below 16C. That might be low enough for most practical uses but I wanted the choice to go lower. This system could go down to -10 less any thermal losses, why I’m also adding 3 inches of Kingspan in all the walls and roof.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I did and it was all a little over my head although I get the bigger picture now.

Note my temp control held together with a weightlifting belt, duct tape and a can of wd40. My engineering education was you can fix anything with duct tape and wd40.

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...and a hammer!

You’re not far off the mark actually.

 

[Pennine]

Alright trying out my attempt at making a session beer that doesn't suck. It's ok, definitely lacking something like maybe a little substance and malt flavour. Although it's getting better as it warms up.

 

[Clint]

You could but virtually all air-con units won’t go below 16C. That might be low enough for most practical uses but I wanted the choice to go lower. This system could go down to -10 less any thermal losses, why I’m also adding 3 inches of Kingspan in all the walls and roof.

So it seems....I'm thinking of getting a few king kegs and the cooling is the only issue....the thing is it's only probably for a few weeks a year..

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

So it seems....I'm thinking of getting a few king kegs and the cooling is the only issue....the thing is it's only probably for a few weeks a year..

You could just use air con but I suspect Mrs Clint will want it in the house on hot days - so you’ll have to bring you beer indoors?

 

[Clint]

She's a sun bird...

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Time for a change - Saison!

 

[strange-steve]

The first taster of my lemon-infused Belgian IPA to make sure it has carbed for @Leon103's judging this weekend, and I'm relieved to say it's perfectly carbonated.

 

[samale]

The first taster of my lemon-infused Belgian IPA to make sure it has carbed for @Leon103's judging this weekend, and I'm relieved to say it's perfectly carbonated.

Sounds nice have you posted the recipe

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

The first taster of my lemon-infused Belgian IPA to make sure it has carbed for @Leon103's judging this weekend, and I'm relieved to say it's perfectly carbonated.

That sounds interesting!

 

[strange-steve]

Sounds nice have you posted the recipe

For 21 L

4.0 kg Pilsner Malt
0.5 kg Wheat Malt
0.5 kg White Sugar

10 g Zeus at 60 mins
25 g Cascade at 15 mins
25 g Cascade Whirlpool
50 g Citra Dry Hop

Zest of 2 lemons added along with dry hops
Fermented with Belle Saison

This was my first time using a dry Belgian yeast and I'm rather pleased with the results.

 

[strange-steve]

That sounds interesting!

Probably wouldn't be to everyone's taste but it's certainly interesting!

 

[samale]

Hops, Saison yeast. What's not to like
How you managed to sneak it into the American IPA/pale ale competition is a different story

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Probably wouldn't be to everyone's taste but it's certainly interesting!

It would be to my taste. Seeing the recipe I would probably describe it as a saison - maybe a “hipster” saison