Completed all in one-brewery

[mr.drankin]

Just finished testing my all in one stainless steel system after spending all of 2014 trying to get it perfected.  Pleased with the results.  This follows my last post shiny experimental set-up.

I have added new control panel, cooler, hop filter and whirlpool arm


http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7114.0.html

[mr.drankin]

New hop filter and whirlpool arm

[mr.drankin]

Stainless steel control panel

[mr.drankin]

Ready to mash in the smaller 50litre pot.  The water goes through the herms pot and nicely circulates on top of the grain bed, which is then hoisted and left to drain.  I rinse the grains when 1st hoisted while the water heats up to boil.

[mr.drankin]

It doesn't take the 5.5kw element to bring to a boil.  Boil rate roughly 8 litres per hour,  I have also purchased a hop spider from UTAH with stainless 2 dry hoppers.

[DEMPSEY]

So you do the reverse of a braumeister in that you recirculate the wort on to the top of the grain and draw it off the bottom.

[mr.drankin]

Yes Dempsey.  It circulates though the grain bed in a 50 litre pot into a 70 litre pot, out to a chugger pump, pumped back up through a 11 litre pot with stainless coil and heating element to maintain the temperature, back through the grain bed.  I have my pid controller wired up so it can work both elements(one at a time)

[mr.drankin]

For this recipe I made a Galaxy SMASH.  I used 100g of pellets to test filters.  The hop spider does collect a fair amount of the the pellets but not it all.  On my last brew my hop filter blocked with the fine crush of my malt I bought.  Im pretty sure most of the left overs at the bottom of the pot is powder from the crushed malt.  When I crush myself it cracks the malt rather than powder it.

[mr.drankin]

Finally chilled with my stainless convoluted counter flow chiller

[pob]

A thing/things of beauty there.

Fantastic setup there.

[DEMPSEY]

When do you use the whirlpool.

[mr.drankin]

I used it once last year with leaf hops, when I had a braided stainless steel filter which collected the wort around the edge of the pot.  The whirlpool done the job putting all the leftovers in the centre but now I have brew builders filter in the center I didn't bother with this brew.  I will probably use the hop spider just with pellets and not whirlpool, take hop spider out when using leaf hops and whirlpool then.

[auralabuse]

I used it once last year with leaf hops, when I had a braided stainless steel filter which collected the wort around the edge of the pot.  The whirlpool done the job putting all the leftovers in the centre but now I have brew builders filter in the center I didn't bother with this brew.  I will probably use the hop spider just with pellets and not whirlpool, take hop spider out when using leaf hops and whirlpool then.

Now that is an impressive set up,  all it needs is a voice recognition system.  Walk in,  say make me beer,  walk out.  Come back in 2 months and pull a pint

[mr.drankin]

I used it once last year with leaf hops, when I had a braided stainless steel filter which collected the wort around the edge of the pot.  The whirlpool done the job putting all the leftovers in the centre but now I have brew builders filter in the center I didn't bother with this brew.  I will probably use the hop spider just with pellets and not whirlpool, take hop spider out when using leaf hops and whirlpool then.

Now that is an impressive set up,  all it needs is a voice recognition system.  Walk in,  say make me beer,  walk out.  Come back in 2 months and pull a pint

Bit over the top, I was thinking on teaching the wife how to sterilise and follow a beersmith recipe, then possibly teach her how to bottle once she gets the hang of it.

[auralabuse]

I used it once last year with leaf hops, when I had a braided stainless steel filter which collected the wort around the edge of the pot.  The whirlpool done the job putting all the leftovers in the centre but now I have brew builders filter in the center I didn't bother with this brew.  I will probably use the hop spider just with pellets and not whirlpool, take hop spider out when using leaf hops and whirlpool then.

Now that is an impressive set up,  all it needs is a voice recognition system.  Walk in,  say make me beer,  walk out.  Come back in 2 months and pull a pint

Bit over the top, I was thinking on teaching the wife how to sterilise and follow a beersmith recipe, then possibly teach her how to bottle once she gets the hang of it.

Sounds like a bridge too far