Hey everybody! Thanks so much for all of your information sharing and also for all the really great specific ideas I've seen here.
I've brewed on my new rig once and I LOVE it. Everything is all in my basement now so my brewday is probably at LEAST 1/2 hour shorter due to not carrying everything out of the basement and back in when done. Heating water with electricity is pretty slick too, set it and forget it. My first brew on the system went pretty much without a hitch. The only thing I ended up carrying was the dry grain and then the spent grain. Everything else was gravity fed and I pumped the cooled wort into fermenters that were already in my ferm chamber.
I don't have space for a full time dedicated brewery, so I made due with an easy to set up and easy to store rig.The brewery is gravity fed. 10 gallon HLT sits on top of a tool cabinet on the workbench, which gravity drops in my cooler MLT sitting on my workbench which gravity drop into my keggle. My whole brewery stores under my workbench when not in use leaving me a workbench to do other stuff.
On to the pics. I'll answer any questions you have, so shoot.
overview
keg 1
keg 2
boiling!
pumping to fermenter
wort into ferment chamber
BSD
I've brewed on my new rig once and I LOVE it. Everything is all in my basement now so my brewday is probably at LEAST 1/2 hour shorter due to not carrying everything out of the basement and back in when done. Heating water with electricity is pretty slick too, set it and forget it. My first brew on the system went pretty much without a hitch. The only thing I ended up carrying was the dry grain and then the spent grain. Everything else was gravity fed and I pumped the cooled wort into fermenters that were already in my ferm chamber.
I don't have space for a full time dedicated brewery, so I made due with an easy to set up and easy to store rig.The brewery is gravity fed. 10 gallon HLT sits on top of a tool cabinet on the workbench, which gravity drops in my cooler MLT sitting on my workbench which gravity drop into my keggle. My whole brewery stores under my workbench when not in use leaving me a workbench to do other stuff.
On to the pics. I'll answer any questions you have, so shoot.
overview
keg 1
keg 2
boiling!
pumping to fermenter
wort into ferment chamber
BSD