Show me your setup and I'll show you mine

[molc]

Took a few shots of brewing at the weekend. I use a grainfather and a 3V setup, depending on what and how much I'm brewing. This one is using the Grainfather.

Grain storage in the brew room - a simple IKEA kitchen unit that was in the house when we bought



Milling happens in a different room, as I don't want the dust in the same room as bottling and fermenting - it's full of crap! Mill straight into the grainfather basket to keep things neat and tidy, or into a BIAB for the MT if using the 3V. Either way, I underlet the mash so again there's no dust and mess in the brew room.


The main picture then shows the main brewroom with everything setup, with the grainfather in operation and using my BK for the sparge water heating.


The 3V setup is powered by an Ardbir. I also kept the electrics in a separate box on the ground, with 2 SSR's and a simple relay for the pumps. Depending on what I want to control, I connect up either the HLT or the BK, each of which have 2 elements, one 2.5kW, one 1.5kW - good enough to hold a strong rolling boil on 45L of wort. There's a lot more detail on this in the Equipment forum where I posted the full build from start to finish. http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/equipment-chemicals/ardbir-(formally-brewpi-spark)-herms-build/


Finally the last pic shows the fermentation chamber, controlled by a BrewPi, with one of the 50L fermenters from a recent groupbuy. I use it for both 20L and 50L batches. The tap on the bottom is dead handy for gravity filling a keg.

[Shanna]

Molc milling grain indoors is a no no in my opinion, the grain is covered in spores, bacteria and fungus and is generally very unhealthy. I would take it outside in future and mill there. Besides the milling process generates loads of flour and over time this will mess up your spare room.

Shanna

Took a few shots of brewing at the weekend. I use a grainfather and a 3V setup, depending on what and how much I'm brewing. This one is using the Grainfather.

Grain storage in the brew room - a simple IKEA kitchen unit that was in the house when we bought



Milling happens in a different room, as I don't want the dust in the same room as bottling and fermenting - it's full of crap! Mill straight into the grainfather basket to keep things neat and tidy, or into a BIAB for the MT if using the 3V. Either way, I underlet the mash so again there's no dust and mess in the brew room.


The main picture then shows the main brewroom with everything setup, with the grainfather in operation and using my BK for the sparge water heating.


The 3V setup is powered by an Ardbir. I also kept the electrics in a separate box on the ground, with 2 SSR's and a simple relay for the pumps. Depending on what I want to control, I connect up either the HLT or the BK, each of which have 2 elements, one 2.5kW, one 1.5kW - good enough to hold a strong rolling boil on 45L of wort. There's a lot more detail on this in the Equipment forum where I posted the full build from start to finish. http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/equipment-chemicals/ardbir-(formally-brewpi-spark)-herms-build/


Finally the last pic shows the fermentation chamber, controlled by a BrewPi, with one of the 50L fermenters from a recent groupbuy. I use it for both 20L and 50L batches. The tap on the bottom is dead handy for gravity filling a keg.

[molc]

Molc milling grain indoors is a no no in my opinion, the grain is covered in spores, bacteria and fungus and is generally very unhealthy. I would take it outside in future and mill there. Besides the milling process generates loads of flour and over time this will mess up your spare room.

Shanna

Point!

[Qs]

In what way does it mess up a room? I've taken to milling in my home office lately and don't want to fuck up my computer, etc

[dcalnan]

What I did with my mill is cut a hole in an old bedsheet and put the grain mill through it, keeps all of the dust contained in the bucket.

[Shanna]

In what way does it mess up a room? I've taken to milling in my home office lately and don't want to fuck up my computer, etc

Dust from the milled grain. But it's the nature of the grain itself having bacteria and other types of micro organisms on it like mould for example that personally I would avoid milling it in an area where I spend a lot of time. Certainly I would not mill where I cook, eat or sleep for example.

Shanna

[Roo]

Thought I would start a thread to see what everyone is using as a brew set up. Here's mine:

Pic 1: Main brewing machine is The Grainfather with its wee coat on since I've been relegated to the garage now. Above to the left is my boiler for sparge water with the wort chiller resting above it. To the right is the stainless steel fermenter. Product placement in the middle is a temp probe and PH reader

Pic 2,3 and 4 are all close ups

Pic 5: Cooling Fridge with kegs and a few overspill bottles. Its still a working progress as I'm having a few issues with dispensing.

Pic 6: Fermenting fridge with heat pad and STC1000. The fridge works but since I've only brewed ales/porters it sits around the 18C. I hope to venture into lagers for summer 18. Hidden inbetween the fridges is the CO2 for the corny kegs.

Pic 7: A gratuitous and self indulgent pic of me and ma boy during one of our brew days.

Post yours below with the name of your club if you're in one and lets see how many get involved.

BELFAST HOMEBREW CLUB

[SprocketFuel]

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/all-grain-brewing/show-me-your-setup!/

[Roo]

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/all-grain-brewing/show-me-your-setup!/

Ah tits!

[SprocketFuel]

in fairness, yours is in the right section, no idea why the other one is in all grain

[Bazza]

in fairness, yours is in the right section, no idea why the other one is in all grain

Neither do I 

[Bazza]

Merged.

[mac2k]

Kegerator inside and outside. Gas is on the outside, fridge snuggly fits 2 stubby kegs and 2 long ones. 4 brass Intertap faucets. Sticker situation is a work in progress.

Intrigued by your IPA. Was up that way last month and had a few of the Denali beers, but not that one. Curious about the inspiration? Any reason you went for this one. I only ask as the reason I got into Homebrew was as a result of trying to hunt down and Alaskan Amber

[Ceedee]

So, I thought I'd chip in as well with the equipment setup.

First two pictures are the main brewing area, with the GrainFather and sparge water heater sitting above it. I attached a short piece of hose to the tap of the heater, so I can sparge directly into the Grainfather. I'll probably replace the stock tap with something controllable as you have to hold this one down to get a flow and it's all or nothing.






This is the other side of the shed, the storage and fermentation area. I made a boil kettle with the usual plastic bucket and kettle elements and while it worked, I never felt safe using it as water was only a few mm away from live terminals. I also wrestled with a roll of copper for an afternoon to make a chiller.
As I had an unexpected windfall, instead of paying bills or buying food or clothes, I decided I really needed a Grainfather, so the plastic kettle and chiller are only used occasionally now.
Above the fridge is a DIY controller using an STC1000. The heat is provided by a 1-foot tubular heater, 40W if I remember. Works great.



A close-up of the controller, as you can see by the temperature, there's something fermenting away at the moment. Hopefully it'll turn into a nice stout in time for Christmas



Finally, the most recent addition to the kit. A stirrer made from a hurl. I've never cut or drilled anything so hard as Ash before, it took ages!!

[Phil.cork]

Here are some pictures of my compact 3 tier brew stand, electric hlt, insulated keg mash tun and a keg on gas ring kettle.

Where did you get the shelving? Looks like a really good mobile set up.