Senormac
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Too pretty to use
Cheers!
The whole room is !!
Too pretty to use
Cheers!
Finally the first brew day on the new rig and brewhouse
My cheap BIAB cart.
* Ikea Table for $7.99 x2. I needed a bottom shelf so I bought a second.
* Old towel as a heat barrier
* Casters to allow me to move it throughout the brew day $36.
I need to be able to carry this cart from the basement to my garage, so a requirement was lightweight. The Ikea table achieves this. I just bought the casters for this last brew day, and has made my life easier during chilling since my waste line of my wort chiller is too short to reach from the mash and boil location to the entrance of the garage. Now I just wheel everything over and begin chilling.
I bought the second table to mount my pump. I figured another $7.99 for only the top of the table was worth it.
The old towel as a thermal barrier is used since I have not found a good cheap wood or silicon mat to replace it.
In the end I wanted a cheap lightweight table for my semi-permanent location in my garage until I move to the basement in years to come.
I posted a thread on my uncle's basement brewery years ago, the pics are all are dead links now, but he had an amazing setup, even beyond the brewery.
Anyway, they downsized and sold house, and for years he's said he'd love to keep it in the family. So now, after about 3 truck loads full, it's all in my garage now Lucky for me, I'm the only other homebrewer in the family!
Equipment;
3 pot tippy HERMS brewstand with electronic temperature control. 50L mash tun, HLT and boil kettle.
2 marsh pumps
14 gallon TEC conical fermenter (25 below ambient)
Custom wall mounted Counter flow chiller with Oxygenator
Motor operated grain mill
Plate filter
Stir plate
Oxygen tank and 40lb propane tank.
4 kegs (6 total since I kept 2) with a custom stainless keg cart on casters. (not shown, he had two racks in his walk in fridge in basement)
Ingredients;
About 250 lbs of base grains (Munich, 2 row, pilsner, Maris otter, crystal 60.) Dog food containers to store it airtight in the basement.
Containers of black patent malt, chocolate malt, Irish moss, belgian candi, and tons of bags of other adjuncts and additives.
6lb bag of LME.
Plus
All the hoses to hook it up
Butterfly clamps
Plenty of pbw, star san and blc.
A hardware organizer full of extra QDs, parts, pieces, gaskets, stoppers etc.
A handful of faucets and regulators
All of the metal hooks, shelves and baskets from his wire grid shelving, so I just had to buy the 2x4 wire grids and brackets off amazon. The buyer of their home wanted to wire grids to stay, but not the hooks.. thankfully because the darn hooks and shelves are way more than wire grid.
Since I acquired it all, I mounted the brew stand on 4" casters to roll out to the driveway. I have the base built for fermenter as well, casters come in Wednesday. I have all the hoses mounted on a board I can move in one piece from basement long term storage to the garage on brew day.
Overall, it's just what I need to end my 5 year brewing hiatus after moving to CO and having kids.
First brew is a tripel and is in a few weeks. This is a major upgrade from my previous plastic buckets, folding tables, Coleman coolers and carboys.
I posted a thread on my uncle's basement brewery years ago, the pics are all are dead links now, but he had an amazing setup, even beyond the brewery.
Anyway, they downsized and sold house, and for years he's said he'd love to keep it in the family. So now, after about 3 truck loads full, it's all in my garage now Lucky for me, I'm the only other homebrewer in the family!
Ingredients;
About 250 lbs of base grains (Munich, 2 row, pilsner, Maris otter, crystal 60.) Dog food containers to store it airtight in the basement.
Containers of black patent malt, chocolate malt, Irish moss, belgian candi, and tons of bags of other adjuncts and additives.
6lb bag of LME.
I'm trying to get an understanding for keeping grain fresh. How do the dog containers seal? Is there a way to vacuum the air out so that its 100% air tight? How long does grain stay fresh in the dog food containers?
I want to say 7 months from when I bought the kegs until I used it. I just tinkered with it as time and money allowed.I agree. Nice build @arcorey. How long did the build take from start to finish?
arcorey, I love the setup. I've been back and for about building a stand and I think I might go a similar route here pretty soon. I'm getting tired of lugging everything upstairs piece by piece. It'll be nice to be able to roll it around the house to the back yard all in one.
I just finished my single tier rig. I purchased most of the 80/20 extruded from eBay. Much cheaper than buying direct, but this 80/20 stuff is awesome. Single chugger pump, 2 Blichmann burners, 10 gal. cooler mash tun, Duda plate chiller.
@arcorey can you provide the dimensions of your stand? I like the layout of it.
Timely Indy, appreciate seeing your RIMS as I was just last night laying out my plumbing for same.. assume you are pumping though chiller during whirlpool and then is that a valve or disconnect on the side of the BK you switch to fermenter? looks slick!
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