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Beer Travel / Re: Only in Goldendale
« on: May 30, 2013, 09:22:02 am »
Goldendale WA. ?
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Pimp My System / Re: Brutus 10 with Self Contained Chiller and ASCO/Love Setup Fired Up Today
« on: May 09, 2013, 08:09:15 am »It fired up and did what it was supposed to do. getting close to putting it in action.
http://s256.photobucket.com/user/jet_gorilla/library/Brutus%2010%20Build
pword: Brutus
Private Photo album, No can see.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: May 09, 2013, 08:07:48 am »Beautiful brewstand.
I have a similar setup (Brutus 10 design), and someone asked me if I was intending to install a CIP system. My response was "probably not". It took enough time to build the stand, tweek the equipment and start brewing great beer. I just want to enjoy it now.
Would it eventually be worth it? How long do you spend cleaning?
I only brewed one batch and I would say it took two people 1.5 hours to clean no small amount of time but they are 40 and 45 gallon pots.
If you run a CIP you need a large volumn pump to spin the ball at a decent RPM to do your cleaning for you.
Is it worth it eventually? I dont know maybe, but at this size I will brew once a month maybe, that makes it not worth it to me at this time.
Cheers
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: May 08, 2013, 08:13:13 pm »Beautiful brewstand.
I have a similar setup (Brutus 10 design), and someone asked me if I was intending to install a CIP system. My response was "probably not". It took enough time to build the stand, tweek the equipment and start brewing great beer. I just want to enjoy it now.
True that, I don't do CIP maybe in the future, need a bigger pump to make it work properly, just got a Freezer for my 40 gal conical. Money money money
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: May 07, 2013, 02:40:40 pm »Very nice. One thing that I noticed is the the pump should be oriented horizontal with the outlet pointing up.
http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=11158.0
This is not true there are 6 pictures in the thread from March Pumps Pic #5 is an acceptible way to mount the pumps and since I have already use it this way and they worked flawlessly then this is the way they will stay.
Thanks for the input.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: May 05, 2013, 09:23:40 pm »Sweet set-up. Very jealous. Good luck with it!
Dave
Thanks Dave
When I get home from the road I will be buying a large freezer for the 40 gal conical fermenter and them i will be able to ferment the whole batch rather than using 6 carboys.
why skimp now? go for a walk in! you'll want the space before long. I mean are you really only going to get the 1 40 gallon conical?
Pay no attention to me, just jealous
Just the cheaper way to go right now, I will be making a walking out of a air conditioner when I set up my shed.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 25, 2013, 01:37:31 pm »Sweet set-up. Very jealous. Good luck with it!
Dave
Thanks Dave
When I get home from the road I will be buying a large freezer for the 40 gal conical fermenter and them i will be able to ferment the whole batch rather than using 6 carboys.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 16, 2013, 07:26:06 am »Looks nice. How is that cooling rig working for you? I went with a convoluted chiller and am not liking it.
Who did you go with for the tanks?
I love it, it went from 210 to 68 at about a gallon or a little less every minute, What is a convoluted chiller?
It's a coil chiller where a convoluted (twisted) copper pipe runs through a larger coiled copper pipe which carries the water for cooling. Mine is nowhere near as efficient as yours and requires too much wort circulation leading to cloudy beer. Need a PC just not decided on which one yet
Ahh a "counter flow wort chiller"
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 14, 2013, 06:06:40 pm »Gorgeous system! Well done!Thank you, just tapped the first beer off of it and they are all good, Three yeasts Nottingham, Windsor and US-05, definetly like the US-05 the best Creamier mouth feel and a touch sweeter.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 14, 2013, 07:54:33 am »Nice Job! Stout kettles??
Yes, Thank you
Wasn't a big decision since I live about 20 miles from their warehouse.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 13, 2013, 09:02:44 pm »Looks nice. How is that cooling rig working for you? I went with a convoluted chiller and am not liking it.
Who did you go with for the tanks?
I love it, it went from 210 to 68 at about a gallon or a little less every minute, What is a convoluted chiller?
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 12, 2013, 02:22:08 pm »Excellent rig - great work! I'm curious what your propane tank freezing solution was?
Stuck the the tank in a barrel of water, did the trick.
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 12, 2013, 02:21:15 pm »It's great to see how brewers are really upping their game with the equipment configurations and selections! Awesome...! Fantastic job!
Interested in how fast you blow through a standard tank of propane with those particular ring burners. I have the NG versions and they are greedy...
I can blow thru 7 gallons on one brew, yes quite greedy, use a 5 as backup!!
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Pimp My System / Re: Finished 1BBL system
« on: April 12, 2013, 01:26:19 pm »Looks very cool! Have you used it yet? I ask because it looks like you haven't left space for exhaust fumes to escape from under your pots. This would lead to low oxygen, poor heating efficiency, and lots of CO and soot.
Oh yes funny you mention that, there are slots cut out now, we did 2 test runs with water and worked out all the heat issues and exhaust issues, and propane tank freezing up. We brewed (see fly sparge Pic) on 3-30 for the first time, calculated a heavy scottish ale at 72% and hit all the marks, had some issues with volume of water and 82 pounds of grain, worked it out and will be tasting this weekend.
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Equipment and Software / Re: Stuck recirc in blichmann mash tun
« on: April 12, 2013, 01:12:44 pm »Do you use just one ball valve, I use 2 ball valves and open the one on the tun fully and adjust the one on the pump for flow rate, and I too use rice hulls to loosen the mash up. To follow that up I am mashing 50 to 80 lbs of grain and not sticking.
I have two. The one on the kettle is left wide open and I only adjust the one on the pump.
I am getting some new grains from a different source to test the crush. I'll be brewing again probably this coming monday. I'll also use more rice hulls than I did last time.
The other issue I have is i'm using the blichmann autosparge. Not for the actual sparging as the arm doesn't even reach the grain bed but rather for recirculation. If the flow rate is too high it just needs up shoving aside the grain and creating a pocket of sorts with nothing but a clear site of liquid straight to the false bottom.
If you are not using that ball to regulate flow i would remove it completly until you need it. 1 pound of hulls is enough i used 2 pounds in 82 pounds of grain. I also crushed my grain at .047 on a Cereal Killer Mill, if you are crushing too fine that could be a problem.