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I never thought I would ever see someone more sanitary than myself.  I think you are over a bit but I do have a suggestion. I think you need a brewing shack and to make a boiler with a stack like the breweries have. This way you could have an air conditioner or a whole house type fan with filter for the shack. I have thought of doing this myself as we do get some windy hot days and this would keep out the bugs, leaves, etc from getting into the wort as well as keeping myself more comfortable too. I think steam heating of the vessels would be the best way to go with the steam boiler outside. I would have access to the wort via a door on the boiler and use a counter-flow chiller/ice bath on the way to the fermenter. You do realize that you can not totally close the boiler due to DMS, right? Maybe this shack is over the top. 
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10-10-2008, 05:37 AM
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I never thought I would ever see someone more sanitary than myself. I think you are over a bit but I do have a suggestion. I think you need a brewing shack and to make a boiler with a stack like the breweries have. This way you could have an air conditioner or a whole house type fan with filter for the shack. I have thought of doing this myself as we do get some windy hot days and this would keep out the bugs, leaves, etc from getting into the wort as well as keeping myself more comfortable too. I think steam heating of the vessels would be the best way to go with the steam boiler outside. I would have access to the wort via a door on the boiler and use a counter-flow chiller/ice bath on the way to the fermenter. Maybe this is over the top. |
I thought about building a laminar flow cleanroom for my brewery, but decided the cooling coil thru the lid approach a bit less time consuming and more compact.  |
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10-10-2008, 07:24 AM
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I thought about building a laminar flow cleanroom for my brewery, but decided the cooling coil thru the lid approach a bit less time consuming and more compact. |
dude.....i would love to see that. If i ever have more room i would build a small one with a hood for yeast culturing etc.
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10-10-2008, 07:28 AM
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I thought about building a laminar flow cleanroom for my brewery, but decided the cooling coil thru the lid approach a bit less time consuming and more compact. |
Do you still leave the lid off for the major part of the boil so any DMS is boiled off?
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Tap 1: Bill's House Ale II, Tap 2: German Hefewizen, Tap 3: Nut Brown Ale
Future Brews: Stone IPA Clone, Blonde Ale, Budvar Clone, Newcastle Clone
New toy: Blichmann 27 gallon fermentor
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10-10-2008, 08:38 AM
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Where are the pictures of the trebuchet??? I really gotta move to Montana. A guy a know here owns a big chunk of property (at least by Cleveland standards) out there, and he built a catapult in his back yard.
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10-10-2008, 02:30 PM
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Where are the pictures of the trebuchet??? I really gotta move to Montana. A guy a know here owns a big chunk of property (at least by Cleveland standards) out there, and he built a catapult in his back yard.
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I want pictures too....
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10-10-2008, 02:38 PM
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Thought about just fermenting in the boil pot?
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10-10-2008, 02:57 PM
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Do you still leave the lid off for the major part of the boil so any DMS is boiled off?
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I haven't tried it yet, but I plan on having the lid off all but the last minute. I can prop the lid on the edge if my kettle with the coils in the boiling wort. This will leave the kettle almost completely open for the last 15min. |
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10-10-2008, 02:59 PM
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Thought about just fermenting in the boil pot?
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Hummmmm. You got me thinking. |
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10-10-2008, 03:08 PM
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Where are the pictures of the trebuchet??? I really gotta move to Montana. A guy a know here owns a big chunk of property (at least by Cleveland standards) out there, and he built a catapult in his back yard.
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Don't think I took any pics (that was dumb). I donated it to the local science teacher, so sneak into the school would be needed. The thing was only about 2ft tall and would fling bottle caps about 15 ft. I have a small 25 acre field in my front yard. Some day a trebuchet will reach the other end. Will defiantly take pictures of that. 
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