Rob S
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Here's my idea for a BIAB setup with recirculating temp controlled mash, 2 sparges & a cooling thing. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel but want to make something that I understand and isn't too expensive but may give me good results and be a bit of fun to do. Things like pump type, tube type, whether the bag will get sucked into the tap etc are for later. For now I'm after some feedback on the system. I feel I need to apologise for the MS Paint pictures, but I can't draw for **** and if I told you how long it took me to do this on MS Paint you'd laugh at me...... Flame away!!
This is the initial setup
Next is the Mash. The coil is now in the urn. The temp controller gets the temp from the pot, controls the on/off of the urn that has the coil inside.
Next Pic is the recirculating sparge - The coil is still in the Urn. Lifting and resting the bag above the pot this will recirculate the wort. The burner is not on. The urn is still powered by the temp controller sensing the pot temp, keeping it at mashout temperatures. 30 mins or so of this i dunno?
Next is Sparge from Urn Water - a nice slow rinse to top up the stock pot. I'm thinking of putting a shower head on the end of the tube so it gives the grain a nice soft wash. Have it high enough so that the entire surface area of the grain gets wet. I realise that this will drop the temp but a few trials will work out what temperature to set the urn at to get the water hitting the grain at about 80*C. Will keep doing this to keep the pot topped up during the boil. I'll keep the Urn water at Mashout temp.
The Boil - no pic.
Cool down. - coil is put into the esky and the wort circulated through it. ice is added to the esky as needed. Temp controller keeps track of temperature (urn unplugged)
Fermenter - not 100% sure of this but thinking about an elbow jointed pickup. The picture on the right was a brain spasm, though I'm still working on it.
clean - Fill up the Urn with 10L of water and bleach - run this through the system. Follow this up with some StarSan and end up with a closed loop around hte coil and pump. Keep this way until next brew day.
I want all this mounted on a table. Nice and neat with clear tubing so I can see it all going round. It's not too hard for my brain to imagine and uses the minimum of equipment that I can think of, with everything I don't have available from the sponsors.
Does anyone have a fresh set of eyes to see where this will fall down?
Any suggestions?
Rob
This is the initial setup
Next is the Mash. The coil is now in the urn. The temp controller gets the temp from the pot, controls the on/off of the urn that has the coil inside.
Next Pic is the recirculating sparge - The coil is still in the Urn. Lifting and resting the bag above the pot this will recirculate the wort. The burner is not on. The urn is still powered by the temp controller sensing the pot temp, keeping it at mashout temperatures. 30 mins or so of this i dunno?
Next is Sparge from Urn Water - a nice slow rinse to top up the stock pot. I'm thinking of putting a shower head on the end of the tube so it gives the grain a nice soft wash. Have it high enough so that the entire surface area of the grain gets wet. I realise that this will drop the temp but a few trials will work out what temperature to set the urn at to get the water hitting the grain at about 80*C. Will keep doing this to keep the pot topped up during the boil. I'll keep the Urn water at Mashout temp.
The Boil - no pic.
Cool down. - coil is put into the esky and the wort circulated through it. ice is added to the esky as needed. Temp controller keeps track of temperature (urn unplugged)
Fermenter - not 100% sure of this but thinking about an elbow jointed pickup. The picture on the right was a brain spasm, though I'm still working on it.
clean - Fill up the Urn with 10L of water and bleach - run this through the system. Follow this up with some StarSan and end up with a closed loop around hte coil and pump. Keep this way until next brew day.
I want all this mounted on a table. Nice and neat with clear tubing so I can see it all going round. It's not too hard for my brain to imagine and uses the minimum of equipment that I can think of, with everything I don't have available from the sponsors.
Does anyone have a fresh set of eyes to see where this will fall down?
Any suggestions?
Rob
