Hello from Houston!

Just finished my "new" system and brewed my first batch since 2002! Started with an IPA and my sculpture worked well. Minor hiccups and mods required, but I think it will work well. Look forward to learning from the millions of post on the site.

Greetings! I'll be in your nice city next week...

wow nice setup there

oh and welcome back

ThanX

I like valves!

Welcome
Man that's a lot of valves.

Hello, and welcome - damn, I counted nine valves in that picture! That's a lot of hardware.

I lived in Houston from '64 to '69 (student at Rice) - I have some great memories of that town. It's also where I brewed my first homebrew -what a disaster that was! See here for more details:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f29/hello-dallas-102090/

From the equipment in your pic, I can see you are already way ahead of me - I just got into this a couple of months ago due to a completely unexpected Christmas gift. Lots of great info. and ideas on this site.

Hello!

What pump are you using there?

Welcome. What part of Houston?

Denny's Evil Concoctions said:

Hello!

What pump are you using there?

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It is a 316 Stainless Steel, gear driven pump with a sealess magnetic drive.

The valves in the picture allow me to pump from my HLT, or boil, to any other part of the system. I can sanitize with boiling water through my chiller or send water up to the mash tun. I need the valves as my A/C electric motor is not variable so I use a bypass valve back to the HLT to regulate flow.

I have no pressure loss with any temp, well maybe if my mash tun was 200 feet up I would.

I have a problem with filtering to the pump, I think I can solve that by just using a large steeping bag from now on.


"The Woodlands" For the where in Houston question.

Welcome fellow Texan, nice setup

tolip_ck1 said:

It is a 316 Stainless Steel, gear driven pump with a sealess magnetic drive.

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What's the make/model and how much did you give for it? For some reason, we've always got to know all the alternatives to the march 809.

greetings, nice setup.

Hello!

And welcome to the forum

Nice bit of equipment there !!!!

-Jason

Lil' Sparky said:

What's the make/model and how much did you give for it? For some reason, we've always got to know all the alternatives to the march 809.

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This may sound funny but I don't know. I told my father (engineer) that I wanted a pump, and explained what I needed it to do. This is what showed up. (lucky me) I have had it for 10 years and just started to use it. Something’s I know are that it is seal less, all stainless with special composite gears. and it only has 6 parts not including its 2 housing screws.

I would have no idea where you would get this on a retail market. I will look into it.

Sorry for the lack of answers.

it looks like some kinda nightmare brewmonster! I like it!!

Greetings from the far northwest suburbs of Houston Always nice to see another Texan.

TexasSpartan said:

Greetings from the far northwest suburbs of Houston Always nice to see another Texan.

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LOL.. We think we are a city!!

welcome back. from another houstonian

Gumbys_Brew said:

welcome back. from another houstonian

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ThanX,

I think I looked through your pics I saw the DeFalcos logo, man that place is great, only problem is that it is a 100 mile round trip for me. I wish we had something up here closer!!

tolip_ck1 said:

ThanX,

I think I looked through your pics I saw the DeFalcos logo, man that place is great, only problem is that it is a 100 mile round trip for me. I wish we had something up here closer!!

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haha yeah its a drive from the woodlands, as for me i'm right in the med center about 5 minutes from defalcos. i still normally order supplies online unless i want it right then and there i'll go to defalcos.