Do you brew on something unique? (home made breweries)

[Paul7189]

How many on here brew on a completely unique brewery? I know some people modify existing equipment but has anyone built theirs from scratch?

I have seen a few brilliant designs and was thinking about going that way myself but what have you done to create your brewery?

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

I built all my stuff except the Burco (although I’ve done a few mods to that too): mash tun, filters, pumps, counterflow, controllers, fridges etc. Still evolving and seldom exactly the same from one brew to the next. The DIY approach has its pros and cons - you can tweak it to your heart’s content and you really get to understand what’s going on, but it‘s quite time consuming (!)

 

[Paul7189]

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That kettle arrangement looks interesting!

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

That kettle arrangement looks interesting!

That’s the HERMS heater: I pump hot water though that and the jacket of the counterflow, while recirculating the mash through the inside.

 

[Buffers brewery]

A somewhat bigger version of TETB's

The white chill box is the mash tun and reciprocating sparge tank...

..the wort is pumped from the mash tun through the HERMS tank (the grey swing lid bin that has the heat exchange coil inside) and back to the sparge tank.
The kettle/boiler is a stock pot fitted with a tap and integral cooling coil for post-boil cooling.
Fermentation fridge has gas collection pipes from fermentation bucket lid to mylar balloon.

Brewloonometer indicates when balloon is fully inflated and needs to be changed.
There are more gadgets but I'll leave it there. Check out my brew day posts for more info

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

My bottling plant... ;-)

 

[Buffers brewery]

My bottling plant... ;-)

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Far too complicated!

 

[Paul7189]

Brewloonometer.

That the new grainfather one with bluetooth?

 

[aamcle]

I built a imitation BM and hated it, a recirculating Blab and then a 2vessel rig were the MT use a GF type overflow.

Now I just use a pre bluetooth GF.


Atb.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Brewloonometer indicates when balloon is fully inflated and needs to be changed.

Can't you just connect two (or more) balloons via a tee-piece?

 

[Buffers brewery]

That the new grainfather one with bluetooth?

Don't know if it's Bluetooth but when the balloon is full the front door bell rings indicating the balloon is full (or there's someone at the front door )

 

[Buffers brewery]

Can't you just connect two (or more) balloons via a tee-piece?

We've had this conversation .
If you do the sums it's slightly cheaper to use a brewloonometer than fill 3 balloons at the same time