The BeoirMaker a Braumeister / Grainfather inspired build

[Mossy]

That looks great Darren. Can you let me know if your happy with the pump? I'm going to pick one up myself any day now.

[darren996]

That looks great Darren. Can you let me know if your happy with the pump? I'm going to pick one up myself any day now.

Hi Mossy I have this pump about 10 months or so and have used on a good few brews now and would highly recommend it. Ita 12v dc with 12L/min flow rate. I use it for mash recirc and cooling through a plate chiller etc. I got it from brewbuilder

[Mossy]

That's great Darren, thanks for the info. Just a question on that, if your using it for recirculating I'm guessing that some grain particles are going through the pump, is this ok for the pump?

[darren996]

No grain passes through the pump as I biab or I use the inner pot which has filters. I also use my biab bag for the hops. I did a whirlpool test with some porride and no filters and the pump handled it no problem.

These are not chuggers so I would be carefull with hops etc.

[DEMPSEY]

Whole hops will fook with a chugger but pellet is OK

[darren996]

Had a few bits left over so I made up a Whirlpool arm out of a 500mm piece of flexi tube, a reducer nossle and brass garden hose fitting.
Filled the beoirmaker with 28 litres of water and put some porridge in, yum...

Left for about 10 minutes and came back.  I slowly drained the kettle and was left with a nice enough cone in the middle.  I will throw up a vid later on.  Its more a gentle whirlpool than vigorous but it did the job.

[DEMPSEY]

Ha Haa well done. Love how our brains work when we apply them to a task

[darren996]

Ha Haa well done. Love how our brains work when we apply them to a task

All in the name of beer

[auralabuse]

That's a great post. Thanks for taking the time to write this up.  I bought the ardbir and have a 30l HLT that I want to convert into a single vessel system. I have a feeling this post will become the template for that build.

[darren996]

That's a great post. Thanks for taking the time to write this up.  I bought the ardbir and have a 30l HLT that I want to convert into a single vessel system. I have a feeling this post will become the template for that build.

Cool, if you have any questions give a shout

[Leann ull]

Whole hops will fook with a chugger but pellet is OK

They didn't fook it for me on the small cone but ....

I'll never tire of this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSORiSaRW8

[TK]

Hi Darren, excellent stuff, great build with some great ideas thrown into the mix! Could you tell me where you got the flexi stainless hose?

[darren996]

Hi Tk got it in woodies 9 euro for 500mm

[TK]

Cool, does it hold shape or does it need to be fixed to something? Also is there rubber inner tubing?

[darren996]

Its 304 grade stainless solid pipe no plastic on the inside at all, its bends by hand and can be shaped easily.  I just popped into the kettle and bent it to the shape i wanted, and it stayed in place no problem.   There is a shoddy vid of it in action on post 4 of this thread