Hi all
Thought I might share a few pic's of the new All Grain sculpture and brew shed.
This is the fermenting fridge with a both heating and cooling omron temp controller.
Then onto the cold conditioning fridge and storage for yeasts (under shelf) and brewer nutriants (in door)
And finaly after the first 45L batch fermenting in the kegs, we decided that a forklift would greatly assist in the brewing process, especialy after a few of the beers out of the cc fridge.
Now for the reason for being in the fermenter and not gear and equipment. Before the sculpture I was using a 20L pot as a mash tun with a sloted s/steel pipe as a manifold. I was geting about 75 - 80% eficiancy from this setup. The batch size in this however was limited to about 5kg of grain.
Now I use a fifty litre keg with a false bottom for the mash tun and my eficiancy has fallen to between 55 and 65% although I can now mash probably 15kg or more of grain (9-11kg is the norm). I also use a march pump to pump the wort from under the grain bed through a heat exchanger in the hlt to regulate the temp.
I brew mainly dark ales and the occasional english bitter and with the next brew to be a belgan strong ale I would like to try to improve this eficiancy.
Sorry about the length of the post and perhaps any spelling mistakes as I havn't work out how to spell check yet.
Regards Derrick
Thought I might share a few pic's of the new All Grain sculpture and brew shed.
This is the fermenting fridge with a both heating and cooling omron temp controller.
Then onto the cold conditioning fridge and storage for yeasts (under shelf) and brewer nutriants (in door)
And finaly after the first 45L batch fermenting in the kegs, we decided that a forklift would greatly assist in the brewing process, especialy after a few of the beers out of the cc fridge.
Now for the reason for being in the fermenter and not gear and equipment. Before the sculpture I was using a 20L pot as a mash tun with a sloted s/steel pipe as a manifold. I was geting about 75 - 80% eficiancy from this setup. The batch size in this however was limited to about 5kg of grain.
Now I use a fifty litre keg with a false bottom for the mash tun and my eficiancy has fallen to between 55 and 65% although I can now mash probably 15kg or more of grain (9-11kg is the norm). I also use a march pump to pump the wort from under the grain bed through a heat exchanger in the hlt to regulate the temp.
I brew mainly dark ales and the occasional english bitter and with the next brew to be a belgan strong ale I would like to try to improve this eficiancy.
Sorry about the length of the post and perhaps any spelling mistakes as I havn't work out how to spell check yet.
Regards Derrick
