Recent content by danz

The 2 big reasons for bypass plumbing: You can control the rate of flow during recirculation and sparging from a dribble to a torrent without putting stress on your pumps shortening its life. Depending on the grain bill/crush you can control the pressure on the grain bed preventing a stuck...

Sight glass was just compression fitting from home depot and some poly tube from bargin fittings Here is a quick diagram showing how it work

Its been a little since I have posted updates but we have been busy learning the setup and dialing it in. We have made some changes to the setup swapping out the mashtun, installing the RIMS, dialing in the recirculation and brewday process. We have just setup Elsinore Strangebrew so we will be...

Awesome thanks guys, I have been supporting him via Arctic Brewing Supply. The prices are higher but seems to be a good local resource. I will pass along Alaska Home Brew Supply, are there any other online retailers you use to order products? I had him stock up on hops from Niko so he has nice...

Well first I have to say I am impressed. Three days after I posted this Stones Golden Stout Master of Disguise was released. This really reminds me of that beer dare I say a little better? One BIG issue is the body, we had a issues with our system and getting to boil fast and we were not mashing...

Now that the work is wrapping up on the brew stand we are shifting the focus back to fermentation. We have been using Brewpi to control our freezer and is a solid setup but we want some more bang out of it. So we are forking the project and rebuilding the frontend to use bootstrap and creating a...

After making this a couple of ways I found that adding a higher proof spirit works better and is easier to burn off the booze then just plain vodka. I still need to work out the ratio but you want about a 1:3 chips to booze ratio. I also discovered a blend of 50/50 American Dark Oak & French...

Well we started in on working on our brew stand so the beers we had in the fermenter just aged :) We just kegged one of the batches and will be tasting it this afternoon. My brewing partner send me this teaser lastnight, its a little darker then I wanted but lets see how the flavor and body...

This seems to be the biggest question about the setup, the first brewing setup was a merge 2 homebrew systems so we had 2 pumps. We only ran the second for whirlpool but found that it helped breaking though any flow issues we had and speed things up. When we rebuilt the setup we continue with...

Test Run Time to test the system and see how well it works, after a couple of tweaks we will be ready for the final version. Bypass in action This is so awesome, we disabled the bypass (hose under the pumps) and starting pulling hard on the grain bed and you could see it instantly go...

I think it should be ok, there is a decent distance from the burner an the mash tun is not direct fire. If its an issue I can wrap the mash tun platform with sheet metal to shield it from the heat.

Plumbing Combined input into the RIMS, though a sight glass, pumps then off to either the mash tun or whirlpool. The bottom of the bottom of the 4 way recirculates the excesses from the mash tun to not collapse the grain bed.

Thank you for your info, it helped me out a TON! cant wait to finish it up! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f253/single-tier-rebuild-lots-fun-stuff-513049/#post6654223

The keg is attached with a bracket with a bolt through the bottom of the keg, after I am done wrapping will take better shot of it. Here is this weekends progress, Strange Brew is up and running along with modified brewpi system soon they will be integrated :) Plumbing, Vessel output...

I plan on wrapping my mashtun like yours, can I get some closeup pics of how you wrapped it and what banding you used? Thanks!