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I make a honey Kolsch that has a distinct honey flavor and a little sweetness. I use 2 pounds per 5 gallon though. The honey i use is not pasteurized. I add all of my honey at flameout and i would think that adding honey to secondary would be even better.

I have a rotating CIP spray ball that i would like to use to clean my fermentor but I'm not sure what pump would be adequate. The fermentor is a 40 gallon conical. I will also use this pump for transfers and other miscellaneous needs. Would a march 808 or 815 be adequate for this? I...

I made a berliner weisse but i didn't sour the mash. I mashed with a normal schedule and did not boil the wort. I did cool the wort to about 140F before putting it in my fermentor. I pitched a handful of grains in the fermentor and then waited 36 hours before i added in yeast. I think i let...

Sorry the diagram says water. It will be a glycol dilution. We are going to test the system without any fluid inside of the freezer and with the glycol solution. I am pretty sure I'll need the hear exchanger submerged in glycol though.

We are still moving forward with this at a snail's pace. We purchased a bunch of tri-clamp fittings, a BCS-460, temp probes, 7.2cuft freezer, and obtained a huge hot water radiator that does multiple passes (3' X 2'). We also got a 50ft stainless steel coil inside of the fermentor. We are...

Plastic mart has 15 gallon conical a for a fair price. They are hard food grade plastic. They are also easy to crop yeast and modify with additional ports. I've hear of some people adding a small window on the lid so you can see the beer.

Here are some photos of the heat exchangers. The square one will circulate the glycol through twice before moving on. The diagram is very rough but it shows the flow of glycol.

So we found something a little better than copper pipe. We found a heat exchanger from hot water radiant heat. We also got a 1" grundfos pump. I'll post pictures below. We are stuck on how to hook-up the pump to the bcs. It will need to switch the pump on and off. Has anyone here done...

:off: In regards to Gavin: Boo! Go to the vendor page and post...

Hello again guys, I was gifted a Grundfos circulation pump from a boiler hot water system recently. I am trying to adapt this pump for my fermentation cooling system. I am planning on using a BCS 460 to monitor temperatures as well as manage the workload of telling when to circulate the cold...

We are going to be ordering all the parts we need for this soon. After we get it put together we will do test runs with water. I will post our material list and the results once we have them.

I think our cooling set up will be like this: Diluted glycol reservoir in a freezer->75-100ft copper coil (also in the freezer)->into the stainless coil in the fermentor->back to the reservoir. We hope that the copper coil will help cool the glycol a little faster since there will be...

that is a nice looking set up. I will be using it the home for now. I have plans to go commercial but i'm not ready yet. This is our prototype brewery for recipe design. Eventually we will add more fermentors. We wanted to save some money and skip on the glycol chiller for now. We were...

Zymurguy, you made some good points. We plan on buy 3 gallons and diluting it. I really like your jockey box idea. I was worried about the temperature drop in the reservoir. We are going to look into the jockey box idea now. We would go with a stainless steel coil in the fermentor and a...

The coil will be inserted in the top and we were going to drill holes on the side. I also had the idea of bring the coils through the lid so it could be removed, but my brewing partner thought it would be better to come through the side. He doesn't think we will have to remove it often for...

Oh...forgot to mention we want to insulate the tank. So far i like the the foil bubble wrap. I believe they are called radiant insulators. I like this better than fiberglass hot water tank wrap because i think it will be easier to clean.

I always bleed of the pressure of my corny keg then fill it with a lower pressure. I'm not sure if that is the correct way to do it, but it made sense to me!

So, the next step to the brewery is a temperature controlled 40 gallon plastic conical fermentor. I wanted to shoot my ideas off and see what the community thought. We will be using this to ferment ales. If possible we would like to be able to crash cool it (40F-35F) before hitting the...

The 30 psi would speed things up a bit but it would not be carbonated after 2 days. I don't mind letting it sit for a week as it carbonates and conditions. In a pinch the method mentioned above works fine and i have had no problems doing it that way. My schedule is 3 weeks grain to glass for...

The way pcollins force carbonated his legs is The same way I do it with corny kegs. Switch the gas and liquid lines; it makes all the difference.