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[Hawks]

I often thought of foaming my plastic bucket before I got my IGLOO, was it easy?

It is when a mate of yours sprays insulating foam for a living... :whistle:

 

[anthonyUK]

Mine is a lot more basic.
I haven't even thought what to do when the weather turns yet.

 

[Aleman]

Mine is a lot more basic.
I haven't even thought what to do when the weather turns yet.

You get wet!!!

 

[Vossy1]

Moved to this forum and 'stickied' with the kind permission of Steve so as to be 'inclusive' of all types/materials of brewery, thanks S

The 'other' homebrew forum

No reason it can't be copied and pasted on THBF, a lot of mine we're/are, can't see it as a problem for either, more a 'gain' for both ...I need to take some pics :P

 

[barneey]

Just twigged that your MT is sat on scales (was trying to work out what the screen was for) - what a brilliant idea! :clap:

Dennis

If you look closely enough there is another set under the boiler

 

[dennisdk2000]

Just twigged that your MT is sat on scales (was trying to work out what the screen was for) - what a brilliant idea! :clap:

Dennis

If you look closely enough there is another set under the boiler

May I ask where you got the scales from and how much they were?

Dennis

 

[barneey]

I got them off eBay just search for platform scales they were £100+ but the price goes up the larger the foot print of the scale, cant see any reason why a smaller footprint model couldn't be used and just make a larger base for it then you talking more like £50.00 brand new so ebay should throw up a couple of 2nd hand items.

BTW don't get the scales with an auto off function

Its the first time I`ve them on a boiler but they seem to work quite well from the initial measurement of liquid in - then the temp increased to boiling press the tare button to give a continuous read out of boil off. Mine are permanently in position due to the weight of the boiler, but the other platform ones under the MT I use for separate grain measurements or weighing larger parcels beats hopping onto bathroom scales :)

 

[nobyipa]

UPDATED

Heres me mash tun and wort chiller in build

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finished items mash tun wort chiller

here is me boiler with the highly important spoon with 5litre and 1 litre markings on it for boiler

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heres me hop stopper all shiny

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Boiler room

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Fermenting area

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this is what i have in stock at the moment

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Maris Otter - crushed grain 6kg (Bairds)
Maris Otter - crushed grain 2 x 25kg sacks(Simpson)
1 kilo Oat Husks
1 kilo Torrefied Wheat
1 kilo Extra Light Crystal - crushed grain 60 EBC (Fawcett)
500 grams Cara Wheat Malt 100 – 140 EBC (Weyermanns)
3 kilo Vienna - crushed grain (Weyermanns)
3 kilo Pearl - crushed grain
1 kilo Extra Low Crystal (Caramalt) - Crushed 25 EBC (Warminster)
1 kilo Crystal - Crushed grain 250 EBC
500G carafa special I
500G carafa special III
500g Roast Barley
kilo black malt
500g chocolate
500g carafa red
2kg crystal 60
500g Carapils
500g flaked barley
kilo torrified wheat

5 x Safale US-05 Yeast
2 x Safale S-04 Yeast
1 Nottingham
2 safebrew f2

100g Amarillo US Hops 2012 Season 100 grams 8. 7% Alpha Acid
100g Cascade US T90 Hop pellets 2012 Season 100g 7. 6% A A
100g Simcoe US Hops 2012 Season 100 grams 15% Alpha Acid
100g Columbus US T90 Hop pellets 2011 Season 100g 16 .5% A A
100g Chinook US Hop Pellet 2012 Season 100gr 10 .04% Alpha Acid
100g Citra US Hop Pellets 2012 Season 100 grams 12. 7% AlphaAcid
100g Styrian goldings
100g Fuggles
100g target


beer library

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bottling area

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sanitation department

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[Fil]

The big kit lives n breaths..Big brew one occurred over the w/end the brewshed is still just a shed.. one day..

underletting

Huge Mash.. runny cos i had to add 4 full kettle fulls to bring the temp up,, need to adjust my strike temp up a few points

boiler and steam removal system (open door n big fan)

the cleaning station

Hop spider bag being lifted by the boil befor the recirc is started..

boil and recirc going strong

pipe chillers first run too, worked a treat..

into the FV..

FV temp control still a work in progress ;(
the hex coil

the chiller

and the heater

the stc1000 controller has now arrived. so fingers crossed..

 

[Daveg]

This is my brewing gear set up in my

This is where I'm up to now, moving it all into my shed. I've got everything where I want it. Electrics are in, and plumbing. Temperature control for the fermenting fridge has arrived and an extractor hood for the boiler to fit then I've got to dig up the garden early next year to link in with main house drain. Hopefully by Easter it'll all be set up ready to rock 'n' roll.

Got a solar pump to get the wort from the kettle to the fermenter and hopefully in the not too distant future I'll have a toy with a simple Herms set-up.

 

[liamtmt7]

Some of these setups are top notch.

Food for thought for new guys like myself.

 

[kentmark]

Piccy of my humble setup in my garage. Got a workbench (kitchen worktop), a couple of sets of.plastic drawers that smaller equipment lives in. Empty kegs / FVs on top of the cupboard. Brews and ingridients safe in the metal cupboard. In the summer the garage is warm enough to ferment in, this time of year i pop the FV in the spare bedroom under a blanket then move it back for bottling / kegging.

On show in this piccy is a white wine kit clearing ahead of bottling and my festive ale infusing with the fruit and spices. St.Peters Ruby Red is in the bedroom just gone on tonight.

In the cupboard each shelf can take approx 30-40 bottles. Have currently got 3 beer bottle height shelves and 1 wine bottle height.

Not the shiniest setup but I'm pleased with it.

 

[kentmark]

 

[artyb]

i like the look of the hop spiders ...
anyone got any methods for making one..?

might add one to my minimalistic biab kit...

 

[Fil]

i like the look of the hop spiders ...
anyone got any methods for making one..?

might add one to my minimalistic biab kit...

my copper one was formed from a circle of micro bore, roughly divided into 3 arcs joined with endfeed T bits, and the legs are bent to maintain the optimum height.

and soldered quickly in the rain b4 use..

add the old grain bag.. done :)

and full of recirced wort

 

[artyb]

thanx for posting .. :thumb:

nice work on the spider ... :party:

 

[alexe]

After over three years of researching, designing, testing and building my new brewery is finished! I set out with the following principles:
It had to be shiney
Brew-length approx. 30litres (3 crates, a crate and a corney, or a big and a small corney)
Easy to use and clean
Computer control where it matters, ie to improve accuracy and consistency (no gratuitous computer control and automation)
As much as possible to be homemade

I used Bergland type stock pots and used an arduino to provide the temperature control. The HLT is 70l, the mash tun is 33l, the boiler is 50l and the fermenter has a capacity of 48l. I use a HERMS to control mash temperature. The arduino is linked to computer which enables a nicer display.

The finished brewery

The HLT

Short leads to make cleaning easier

The mash tun

The heat exchanger

Sparging (sample tap for measuring samples of first and last runnings)

The boiler

The control box and PC screen

The fermenting fridge

The controller has two parts, the arduino which does the actual control bit and the software which is used to manage the settings in the arduino and provide a nice display. The temperature probes are the DS18B20 type and there are 5 (HLT, heat exchanger, 2 in the mash tun and the boiler). There is a float switch in the HLT to stop the it running dry while sparking (done that before...). The pump is a 12V one from MrLard, and the plan is to add speed control using a transistor (I couldn't get this working so I left it off for the moment so I can brew some beer and rebuild stock...). Two SSRs control power to the elements. Additional switches on the control box control power to the SSRs as an additional level of control over power to them. The pot is to control pump speed.

Because I live in a rented house it had to be able to run off standard mains sockets so there are two power leads which provide power and can be plugged into different sockets in the house. One powers the elements, the other everything else. The arduino software is written in such a way that only one element can run at a time, with the heat exchanger getting priority. There is a silly little display to monitor voltage and current consumption of the elements.

There are a number of different control modes:
Temperature display only
HLT. Prep. used to bring the liquor up to temp.
Heat Exchanger Prep. to get the HERMS ready for use
Mashing which controls mash and heat changer temp. And maintains HLT temp
Sparking, similar to above but showing different temps on the control box display
Boil which only displays boiler temp. on the control box display

The control mode and temperatures are all set from the PC software, which is written in C++. It can import beerxml files (saved from beersmith) with all the recipe data and communicates with the arduino via USB. Temperature data is written to a CSV file for later use if needed.

This is the PC screen

 

[Maysie]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[morethanworts]

Prayer-mat emoticon needed!

 

[thedrayman]

Had delivery of a 200L copper from MrLard to replace current 100L one (shown with extractor hose). I'm in the process of lagging it, calibrating the sight glass, and fitting the two 3Kw elements, and thermowell. Then I'll knock-up a small PID control panel for control of the copper and (hopefully) away-we-go with a 18 gallon test batch.