Bbowzky1
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Ive never done anything like this before. I have gone all out on my first brewery build.
Iwasnt gunna post this up till I had all start to finish pictures. However I've decided to get the posts rolling and share with you all my journey to date.
Enjoy.
Ok so I needed a MT that would hold 2.5lt/kg plus 60kg of grain to achieve upward of 100lt of 1.100 OG mash.
Thus I would need 150lt of strike water plus sparge and cleaning etc.
And because of my other hobbies I needed to be able to incorporate a multipurpose boiling vessel.
I have also fully designed my own personal controller, done all wiring diagrams and had a licenced sparky make mods to my mains power.
So here it is.
HLT
I've gone with a 165lt kettle, fitted with a float switch to shut elements off, temp probe, 8m herms coil, whirlpool/recirculation valves and 2x 5500w ULWD triclamp elements.
MT
I've selected a 225lt kettle, installed on a topper mechanism and insulated with 13mm wetsuit type material. I also have a mash temp probe, herms outlet/mash inlet temp probe, a ball valve with street elbow and false bottom, blichmans auto sparge arm and wort sight glass.
Boiler
This is a custom built 157lt pot belly boiler, it has 2x tri clamp ports for 2x 5500w ULWD ripple elements, a 1.5" TV port for float switch and under side it has a 1.5" drain port to 3/4" ball valve and 1.5" triclamp temp probe. Up top is a 6" man hole for cleaning and a 4" TC raiser. This bad boy is seperate to the brew stand and has it's own legs and wheels.
Brew bench
Made of 50mm galvanised square steel, have flat bar across base for shelving, 3 pump brackets and a wort chiller tray with disconnect panel. I will also be installing a TV swivel mount to house the controller and a 4" x 1.5" TC wort strainer. The brew bench houses my HLT and Tipable MT.
Wort chiller disconnect panel
Has 2x 12mm garden hose fittings to hook into a 1000lt IBC recirculation water tank, driven by a 7500l/h pump. It also has a wort inlet (post wort strainer/hop rocket) and an outlet that's fitted with a temp probe an ball valve.
Controller.
The controller is pretty in depth, but basically I have a few Auber instruments that are programable or step mashing and PWM pid boil control.
I also have a programable alarm off these timers/power controllers.
Each element group has an auto and manual control as well as an element 1-both-2 selector, each of which have specific circuitry to prevent any current over loads.
My controller will also have a safe star interlock, door proximity sensor, power/ amp meter and drive my 3 brew pumps and recirculation pump.
Last but not least it's also to be fitted with a float switch over ride that illuminates amber if you ever needed to get adventurous.
Anyways, that's a pretty good overview I think.
Enjoy the pics
Iwasnt gunna post this up till I had all start to finish pictures. However I've decided to get the posts rolling and share with you all my journey to date.
Enjoy.
Ok so I needed a MT that would hold 2.5lt/kg plus 60kg of grain to achieve upward of 100lt of 1.100 OG mash.
Thus I would need 150lt of strike water plus sparge and cleaning etc.
And because of my other hobbies I needed to be able to incorporate a multipurpose boiling vessel.
I have also fully designed my own personal controller, done all wiring diagrams and had a licenced sparky make mods to my mains power.
So here it is.
HLT
I've gone with a 165lt kettle, fitted with a float switch to shut elements off, temp probe, 8m herms coil, whirlpool/recirculation valves and 2x 5500w ULWD triclamp elements.
MT
I've selected a 225lt kettle, installed on a topper mechanism and insulated with 13mm wetsuit type material. I also have a mash temp probe, herms outlet/mash inlet temp probe, a ball valve with street elbow and false bottom, blichmans auto sparge arm and wort sight glass.
Boiler
This is a custom built 157lt pot belly boiler, it has 2x tri clamp ports for 2x 5500w ULWD ripple elements, a 1.5" TV port for float switch and under side it has a 1.5" drain port to 3/4" ball valve and 1.5" triclamp temp probe. Up top is a 6" man hole for cleaning and a 4" TC raiser. This bad boy is seperate to the brew stand and has it's own legs and wheels.
Brew bench
Made of 50mm galvanised square steel, have flat bar across base for shelving, 3 pump brackets and a wort chiller tray with disconnect panel. I will also be installing a TV swivel mount to house the controller and a 4" x 1.5" TC wort strainer. The brew bench houses my HLT and Tipable MT.
Wort chiller disconnect panel
Has 2x 12mm garden hose fittings to hook into a 1000lt IBC recirculation water tank, driven by a 7500l/h pump. It also has a wort inlet (post wort strainer/hop rocket) and an outlet that's fitted with a temp probe an ball valve.
Controller.
The controller is pretty in depth, but basically I have a few Auber instruments that are programable or step mashing and PWM pid boil control.
I also have a programable alarm off these timers/power controllers.
Each element group has an auto and manual control as well as an element 1-both-2 selector, each of which have specific circuitry to prevent any current over loads.
My controller will also have a safe star interlock, door proximity sensor, power/ amp meter and drive my 3 brew pumps and recirculation pump.
Last but not least it's also to be fitted with a float switch over ride that illuminates amber if you ever needed to get adventurous.
Anyways, that's a pretty good overview I think.
Enjoy the pics
