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New Boil Kettle with Hop Filter

Started by magnethead, March 10, 2014, 10:23:51 AM

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biertourist

Also, if you ever plan to HERMS mash; these insulated mashtuns (with a good false bottom) are ideal as you can get much more rapid temp rises vs. a keg as it's all insulated.

Focus on efficient heat transfer with the HERMS HEX via recirculating your HLT water, or using a counter-flow chiller for a HEX and you have a HERMS system can do temp steps just as fast (and far more evenly) as a direct fired keg.

The system that I wanted just wasn't possible without these insulated stainless vessels; well, possible, but it never would've been as good. (Kegs are around a 2:1 height to width ratio and the FBs don't take up the full bottom space, you have to recirculate slower to avoid a stuck mash AND you'd have to do some serious insulation to get a keg to hold temps like these things.

-Drill a quick hole in the center of the lid and feed a stainless nipple and a 90 degree elbow into it and you've got a place for a recirculation fitting that can work with the whole thing sealed; I have also attached a $0.44 lawn sprayer with a piece of silicone tubing into the same lid fitting to spray a fine sparge mist and for an ultra-cheap CIP solution that works with a regular homebrew pump.  -If you avoid the 90 degree fitting in the lid, you can also put a thermometer through the lid with a compression fitting and keep the whole thing sealed during the entire mash.  You also could fit a traditional sparge arm to the fitting.


Adam

Covey

Intend just to keep doing BIAB as its the best option i have at the moment but i do like the shiny. What batch sisze to you brew on your 50litre, would a standard grain bill for a 23litre be lost in it
David
i wam wee todd did i am sofa king wee todd did

Hop Bomb

If the thermo pot mash tuns arent full they lose a little heat. Not enough or even quick enough for it to effect your mash. When full they hold temp for 90 mins anyway (never mashed past that). Ive an 80 litre one & the most I could fit in it was 19 kg of grain for a 40 litre batch of RIS. That mash gave me 58 litres in the kettle at 1.089 pre boil gravity (1.104 after the boil)  Hope this helps
On tap: Flanders, Gose,
Fermenting: Oatmeal Brown, 200ish Fathoms,
Ageing: bretted 1890 export stout.
To brew:  2015 RIS, Kellerbier, Altbier.