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I just watch the temp on the mash and adjust accordingly. The coil is there to maintain the mash temp. When I start a brew day I fire up the burners under the MT and the HLT Once I hit the dough in temp I kill the MT burner and start the recurc. We are having a big brew day for the local...

I sued to have a coil in my boil kettle and another coil in a bucket of ice water. The tap water would run through the coil in ice water first so the water going into the boil kettle coil was chilled and the ice lasted much longer that way. I decided that I wanted to get away from a coil in...

Here are some specs: Natural gas via gas tube. 23 jet burners tri-clover fittings custom rigid stainless lines Self designed hybrid heater/cooler coil keyed power switch to pumps illuminated pump switches (red = power, green = on) 28 gal kettles prime/sampling valves on each pump...

Very cool! Great use of space.

How about some pics?

It might be kind of small but have you looked at those 1 kettle all grain ideas in the forums? If you change the valve like you said it might be perfect!

I used to use something like that. I would suggest securing the coils together (ziptie maybe) and using a bag for your hops. The wort line is a thin one and brewers tend to feed it by gravity. A clogged line would be a terrible way to end a perfectly good brew day. Actually it uses 3/8"...

You're fine. Hope it works for ya.

Take a look at your plumbing lines. I bet if you changed out a handful of screwed fittings you could still partially take it apart. If you do decide to go permanent then Ridged and Husky both have a 2.5 and 2 gallon shopvac. I've used the Ridged before and that little thing is powerful! It...

I dig those valves...

Attached to the pump? Those are stainless threaded couplings. I welded some tri-clovers to the end of them to make the fittings I needed. It's all SS tubing. The coil is my heat exchanger and RIM coil as well. It's a tube inside a tube and then bent in a hexagon. I run water from the HLT in...

You guys rock at bottling! Funny, my friends always seemed a bit busy when it came to bottling time or we all had a few too many to be efficient. :tank: Hmmm. Drilling and tapping the pump head could work. Easy to screw things up but if you're careful it could be very cool. It could help...

Good for you. I can't imagine going back to bottles now. I try to keep my batches to 20 gal and to bottle that would take hours. Figure it would take at least 3-4 mins a bottle when you take into consideration cleaning, sanitizing, filling, capping... That would be around 5 1/2 hours for 20...

To each his own. I read a post where a guy ran his system with his iphone. He was grocery shopping and could make adjustments to his sytem at the same time. Crazy cool, just not for me. My gallery is gone :( but you can check out my setup on this thread...

If you have a 3 keg system you better have some access to C02. You could either use C02 or filtered shop air (air compressor). What about using stainless tubing and flared fittings? That might be cheaper than compression fittings. I'm sure there is a reason why all the breweries have...

Think of how many brews you could do with the money you save by using a keg as a kettle. I know the bling is nice but a polished keggle is a thing of beauty as well.

I always wondered how the 8020 aluminum extrusions would hold up to the heat. Looks as if they are doing fine. I was thinking about using the quick disconnects as well but ended up going tri-clover. The QD would be much faster to assemble but I couldn't pass up using the tri's once I had them...

I use my 23 jet burners from a gas tube, thru a 1/2" 1/4 turn ball valve, and it works great. I barely have it going once the boil is rolling.

Do you have any pics of the system?

I came up with, and built, a hybrid stainless heat exchanger that also acts as my temperature control setup when recalculating my wort. I wanted to get rid of the coil inside the HLT. I run the hot water from the HLT in the jacket to maintain the mash temp and run tap water to cool after boil...