How you all doing?

[Stone Cold]

Have not been on here in some time !

Hope your all well, I have been busy busy working on the brewery, beers improving all the time although I have had constant problems since day one most of which have been sorted. I will post some pictures later after i have finished cleaning......cleaning..cleaning.. so much fecking cleaning... :shock: :nah: ...

 

[PD]

welcome back........ get big pots and they need lots of cleaning....lol

and you did get big pots...

 

[Vossy1]

Hope all's going well S C, good to hear from you :thumb:

 

[Stone Cold]

Few pics of random objects around the brewery

i have been using my old mash tun as the under back/hop back it helps to keep little bits out of heat exchanger but its not great some modifying will take place soon.
the sink is a blessing!


i use the tilting cask rack to bottle from, although a conditioning tank will be purchased soon!
this is the bottle filler

this is a close up of the chiller without cover on, i wanted to point out that i have put a fish tank heater inside submersed in the liquid, i can now pump liquid around the fermenting vessel jackets from temps of d-30 celsius, controlling fermentation has been THE BIGGEST HELP IN GOOD BEER holding fermentation at 18 is how you get that crisp refreshing taste, is you get a harshness from your brew its most likely fermented to warm

microscope is the newest edition to the team, looking at your beer close up is handy for me because i can see how the yeast is preforming but most of all i can open a bottle of beer before it goes on sale and see if there are signs of bacteria, if there are its likely it will spoil over time. its all simpler than you would think once you have done it once.



MMMMHOPSS


AND MOST IMPORTANT THE BAR! need more pumps

 

[PD]

mind boggling....thanks for letting us have a peep

 

[Paultakespics]

It's looking good! :thumb:

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Love the photos mate, good to see you up and running.

I've just finished getting my fermenter up and running this afternoon...5Bbl..

I concur with the cleaning, all the time, clean. clean. clean...

How have you wired the aquarium heater into the chiller? Ive got 36 meters of microbore contected to a big chiller controlled by a wired in STC-1000, cable socket in the side to shove an aquarium heater into the FV if it gets a bit chilly or a little fan heater in FV room...

Got beer into a few pubs around here and seem to sell out within a couple of days whereever they go...

 

[Stone Cold]

The heater is in the water bath of the cooler and the lead just runs out of the unit and i plug it into the wall, i have the chiller/pump/heater all on separate plugs . Simple :)

 

[dennisking]

Great photos SC, got to see you up and running.

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

The heater is in the water bath of the cooler and the lead just runs out of the unit and i plug it into the wall, i have the chiller/pump/heater all on separate plugs . Simple :)

Genius....

Ive got my temp controller built into the chiller, so only one waterproof plug...the heating side is an external socket fired from the temp controller. Your idea is just genius...if the pump is on all the time, then the temp controller heats and chills the water bath that circulates around the FV, subject to the probe attached to the FV...So one plug, one unit, all built in....magic...

 

[Stone Cold]

because of the volume of beer it takes a long time for temp to change, about 0.9 degree celsius every hour or something like that, so when fermentation has almost finished with a few points to go on hydrometer I turn the chiller on and start cooling the fv down, after 12 hrs chilling its down to 10 C or below and time to cask. no temp control is really needed but I have got a plan for doing so.

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

because of the volume of beer it takes a long time for temp to change, about 0.9 degree celsius every hour or something like that, so when fermentation has almost finished with a few points to go on hydrometer I turn the chiller on and start cooling the fv down, after 12 hrs chilling its down to 10 C or below and time to cask. no temp control is really needed but I have got a plan for doing so.

How big is the chiller?

 

[Stone Cold]

its the standard small under bar chiller, slightly bigger than a upside down asda box :)



its was a assumed broken chiller that someone had lying around, someone els had the pump from a big python chiller so I took that and mounted it to my chiller (a chiller with a pump on top seems to always be the expensive kind to buy and very rare to see them on small chillers) then took out all the coils from inside the chiller as i would not be using them and that gave me lots of room for the fish tank heater inside.

100% FREE

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Free is good...

The brews Ive done before has been in the breweries other fermenters, these are linked to their big chiller unit. As I wanted more control over temperatures for my new fermenter, I decided to have seperate chiller for it..I guessed that my Maxi310 would have just enough guts to do it. Ive half filled the fermenter with water and fired it up..it seems to be enough to chill it down but does take a while..