UrnyNator passes its first test today
I was going to spend a few hundred on a march pump, false bottoms etc and build a recirculating BIAB or Brew in a Bucket type single vessel system built round my urn. However I decided why try to fix what ain't really broken, and decided to get a second urn instead. I expect many of us reach that place where we are spending five hours on a brew and the end result is a keg plus four bottles. Ho hum. With the UrnyNator I'm planning to crank out a double BIAB batch in around 6 hours for a 90 min mash 90 min boil recipe and as little as 4 hours for a 60 min mash 60 min boil session. I only have one skyhook position so there is a lag time between doughing in #1 and doughing in #2, the lag time being the period that #1 is hogging the skyhook (mashout and drain). Then the rig rolls sideways and #2 gets its turn.
Anyway yesterday I went down to Ross's new place, picked up the urn etc and dropped off the BABBs annual comp entries and drove into work. It's rare that I drive in but yesterday as it happened they were chucking out a pile of old Pentium 3s so I grabbed 3 for my son who wants to build a retro win 98 machine to play old games on.
So just playing around with the setup till my new Gryph bag arrives.
Just now, SWMBO comes in and says alarmedly - "hey what's that outside?"
Sprung. So I said what? - this stuff she says, walking towards the garage. She walks right past Urny, glances at it and continues out to the car and points at the Pentiums. ........... woohooo, system obtains its first tick h34r:
Running the Crownie (exposed element) today for a single brew and I'll post my first UrnyNator brewday which hopefully will be Tuesday.
I was going to spend a few hundred on a march pump, false bottoms etc and build a recirculating BIAB or Brew in a Bucket type single vessel system built round my urn. However I decided why try to fix what ain't really broken, and decided to get a second urn instead. I expect many of us reach that place where we are spending five hours on a brew and the end result is a keg plus four bottles. Ho hum. With the UrnyNator I'm planning to crank out a double BIAB batch in around 6 hours for a 90 min mash 90 min boil recipe and as little as 4 hours for a 60 min mash 60 min boil session. I only have one skyhook position so there is a lag time between doughing in #1 and doughing in #2, the lag time being the period that #1 is hogging the skyhook (mashout and drain). Then the rig rolls sideways and #2 gets its turn.
Anyway yesterday I went down to Ross's new place, picked up the urn etc and dropped off the BABBs annual comp entries and drove into work. It's rare that I drive in but yesterday as it happened they were chucking out a pile of old Pentium 3s so I grabbed 3 for my son who wants to build a retro win 98 machine to play old games on.
So just playing around with the setup till my new Gryph bag arrives.
Just now, SWMBO comes in and says alarmedly - "hey what's that outside?"
Sprung. So I said what? - this stuff she says, walking towards the garage. She walks right past Urny, glances at it and continues out to the car and points at the Pentiums. ........... woohooo, system obtains its first tick h34r:
Running the Crownie (exposed element) today for a single brew and I'll post my first UrnyNator brewday which hopefully will be Tuesday.