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[hooper80]

Cheers mate

What heating elements do you use?

Two of the round elements, non weld. They work good. I've been told the long straight ones are no good.


If you want to do double brews in a keg it's a total pain in the arse!! Unless u get more keg welded on top of it. I actually wish I had of gone a lill bit higher. I have to man the hop break with a spray bottle but once it's over it boils away perfectly. If u do do something like this, go high enough so u can reach the bottom of the keg to clean.

 

[Weizguy]

Nice one. Those hops shouldn't need watering until next summer by the way. Where abouts are you Les?

Medowie, near Raymond Terrace (where the Williams River flooded) and Port Stephens, NSW

 

[Curly79]

All done. Might try it out next weekend. Cheers [emoji481]

 

[Camo6]

Nice! Metallic charcoal?

I see you've allowed provision for a bigger kettle. Neat job.

 

[Curly79]

Hammer tone Charcoal Camo. Cheers mate.

 

[Jaded and Bitter]

60L HLT, Herms and new 80L Kettle maiden voyage. The Mash tun isn't new but I fitted a temp probe to the centre of the manifold.

Couple of leaks. Fixed those for the second time I used it. Going to clad the HLT with insulation and wood and make some covers for the STC1000's.

Still worked a treat, heated water up to strike in about 30-40 minutes while I was farting around with other brew stuff.

Herms held temp within 0.5 degree, steps took 10 minutes with 3 m of copper coil, heating element was on almost full time during step so plenty of heat exchange.

With the plate chiller and motorised grain mill brew days are so much nicer.


See the three way pump for strike, herms and sparging, depending on which valve is open. Currently Herms mashout step.

Sparging

Sparging

Herms coil, yes only 3 m of 1/2 inch. It works fine.

50L of brew liquor nearly done

 

[drifting79]

Jaded and bitter
I love the simplicity of your back verandah modular kit

 

[Jaded and Bitter]

Jaded and bitter
I love the simplicity of your back verandah modular kit

Cheers Buddy Yep storing it away helps the hobby survive B)

 

[Weizguy]

Spent some time this week buying some modular racking. so I can mount my brew fridge up above the flood mark. OK, it seems this is not really achievable at my place due to height of the fridge and the limit of how high I can place it, but for minor flooding, it'll do.
The room is till messy after the flood in December, but I'm getting it tidy. You can pretty much see the high water mark on the wall behind the racking.
The Rack-it end pieces and box section rails allow this to be 2.4 metres long and have space for the ferment chamber and my keg freezer.


You can see how high the water got on the freezer, but it's not quite that bad, as the freezer tilted forward and hence the high-tide mark is actually higher on the front than the back. Still, I'm mildly amazed that the keezer runs at all.


On the left of the racking, I plan to locate the ferment fridge, with built-in temp controller and custom labelling. Keezer on the right. It appears that the high mount position will not allow room for a font on top.
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The mash rig is on the left of the racking setup, and will allow chilled wort to be pumped directly to the fermentor, ideally.

Took some time today to reorganise the space, and awaiting a pallet jack to get the fridge up to rack height.

Thoughts/ feedback/ridicule?

 

[droid]

Nice Les! I like the use of the same font for "Les Ale". What will you call the first brew to run through the conical and fridge? High Tide Hefe?

 

[Weizguy]

The Les Ale was originally Medisafe, and was put together my fellow brewer, refrigeration tech and Newcastle Show Brew Comp Prize Winner, Troy (aka Osprey Brewday)

First beer? I need something to boost brew stocks with good drinkability, so maybe a guzzling Bitter or swilling Cream ale. May be named. "The tide is high and Les is Bitter", or " Port Stephens Council's Creamin' Ale Neglect", for example.

 

[tugger]

One of the twins at work, I have set up one of my grainfathers in a corner at work next to the chilled water tank. The counter flow chiller works great with 1c water input.

 

[Engibeer]

 

[SBOB]

Pretty sure, based on my experiences, that lack of mess means you dont brew

btw, nice sous vide machine (i have the anova one)

 

[Thefatdoghead]

Getting the brewery back together with a few upgrades. Still building the brew rig for the 50L brau and 114L kettle.
The ss fermenter has a FTSs kit for controlled fermentation

Edit: How do I flip the photo using samsung s5? Sorry

 

[MastersBrewery]

Nice to see you back in the saddle after the move Gav.

 

[Thefatdoghead]

Few pics to update. Still a fair way to go but the bulk of it is bought and done.
Im going to start a topic on the ss brewtech ftss once i get glycol and go through the ins and outs of the 17 gallon system.at the moment it will get 60L of wort to 10 deg c at 27c ambient in about 5 hours but wont go any further.

 

[Thefatdoghead]

Few more pics of the updated Rig.

 

[Weizguy]

Today's update. I may have bent the fridge a little bit while trying to elevate it to the appropriate height.
Once the freezer was empty, it was breeze to pop it up on the racking, one end at a time. Just cleaned the freezer out too, due to beer spillage inside (leaky keg).
Problem may be that I can no longer mount a font on top (unless I build a set of stairs in front of the racking?), so may need a keezer collar and shanks.
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Conical is in the fridge and the fridge is powered on. Almost time to mount the pump that will push wort into the fermentor

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Keezer is still grubby since the flooding, but you see where I used a scraper to clean the mud off the bottom edge of the freezer. Dings in the freezer are from when it floated and tipped forward in the flood. Should have cleaned it.

 

[Weizguy]

stupid double post. Mods please delete.