OneHoppyGuy
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I have a real challenge with thread... which stand to show off...
Building a brutus 10 in Germany is hard. I could not find half of the parts and had to ship most of them here.
I am almost finished with my build.
stellaontap said:Here are a few pictures of my new brew rig.....I spent the whole winter building it and will be brewing my third batch on Saturday. RIMS brewing is totally new to me but I am learning a lot and if a few brews will have all the bugs worked out
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pickles said:They are used to brew beer. They range widely in price, and yes they can be expensive if you load them with options.
Thanks pickles. Brewing beer was one of my assumptions. I should have been more clear and ask, how do they work? Why three kegs? Why do some have more then o e burner, others have one burner but down low?
barneygumble said:They are for all grain brewing. One pot/cooler/keg is called a Hot Liquor Tun. It holds preheated water for mashing/sparging the grains (mashing means to convert the starches in grain to sugars and sparging means to rinse all the sugars from the grains), the second, and usually unheated one is the mashtun. That is where you see the most coolers. The mash tun is the vessel that the grains and water are mixed in and held at temperature for a period of time to convert the starches to sugars and the vessel that the grains get rinsed in. The third is the brew kettle. This is the vessel that the liquid collected from mashing is brought to a boil in and hops and flavoring additions are added to it. This makes wort. When its cooled, the wort is transferred to a fementer and yeast is added.
There are excellent resources here and links to fine tutorial sites to explain all grain brewing in more detail.
I hope you are curious and ready to venture forth!
I guess now that it's available online
hafmpty said:Buy the book from amazon.com or wherever you get your books. The online version is the first edition. He's now on his fourth. There was quite a bit of information in the first edition that has been changed and/or redacted since then. Palmer himself admits as such on the Brew Strong podcasts. He has said the source of some brewing myths and inaccurate information that continue to pop up are because of him and the online edition of How To Brew. Spend the money and get the print edition. It's definitely worth it.
Since I live in a small lot house, senior living, I needed something that doesn't take up any precious space in the house or garage.
@gailenjensen
I live in Germany and space is smaller everywhere. Garages are small, storage is small. A design like this one I think is very innovative and I feel if they gave prizes for designs on this website, you should get one. Why?
-Low cost and budget
-Small footprint
-Easy to move and store
-Ability to store on wall or ceiling
-No welding
-Functionality
-Ability to add and remove modules, like pumps
-Ability to build and ship multiple units on a pallet
Two thumbs up to you. I really think you need to send the design to BYO, people will want to build this one.
I'm noting wet floors in a lot of these pictures. As someone who is currently drawing out designs, I'm curious to know what the largest source of leakage is in people's experiences.
homebeerbrewer said:How do you keep everything in when they're laying on their side?
fast900t said:So how is your HLT set up - do you heat in the kettle and just store it in the tank, or does the HLT have it's own heating system?
That's the best brew rig ever
metalpysko said:That's the best brew rig ever
Our little setup. We also have a post about building it: Brewsculpture Build and another post with a video of it in use: 60 Shilling Brew Session
starsailor said:Finally someone using an appropriate tubing size for a stand instead of way over building one that could hold a bus up. I really like the cantilevered corner to improve access to the lower BK pot.
PowellAvenueBrew said:Our little setup. We also have a post about building it: Brewsculpture Build and another post with a video of it in use: 60 Shilling Brew Session
What type of burners are those? I have seen them before in a micro brewery but never on a homebrew rig.
Finally someone using an appropriate tubing size for a stand instead of way over building one that could hold a bus up.[...]
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