100 gallons...

nickpgoodman said:

Well, several thousand gallons of beer have been brewed with this by our club over the last few years and we are still going strong. If it's save for livestock to eat/drink out of then why not us?

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Agreed, I believe it is not labled "Food Safe" because it is not intended for use for human consumption. I personally would not use anything for my animals that i would be afraid to use for myself.

It is made of HDPE, and good enough for me to have my horse drink from for her whole life.... HDPE is rated in excess of 200 degrees.

Those 55-gal drums seem thin. No problems with scorching the wort?

That's just naughty

we upgraded from the 2 55gal barrels to a single kettle from stouttanks. This is either 125 or 150gal. We are about to schedule it's first brew!

any updates?

Otter_Bay_Brewing said:

any updates?

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Yeah lets hear it Otter. I'm subscribed too for some reason.

We have brewed with the new kettle 6 or 7 times now, and the next one is this upcoming Sunday.

the 55gal drums have been reassigned to heating strike and sparge water.



Mashing in 220# of grain


Here she is about to be fired for the first time. We had a problem with the 23tip burners, it uses 3x 85K burners now (like a banjo burner)
I think the propane tanks are about 15gal, we use 2 of them.


Just going to post a link for the last one
http://www.capandhare.com/forums/album.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1104
it is not cropped, but you can see some of the bling very clearly.

and here is an example of a recipe that was made on this system before we had the big kettle.
Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal): 85.00 Wort Size (Gal): 85.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 180.63
Anticipated OG: 1.064 Plato: 15.69
Anticipated SRM: 9.4
Anticipated IBU: 34.2
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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84.7 153.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) Great Britain 1.038 3
7.1 12.75 lbs. Crystal 55L Great Britian 1.034 55
3.5 6.38 lbs. Wheat Malt Germany 1.039 2
4.7 8.50 lbs. Munich Malt Germany 1.037 8

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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12.75 oz. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 6.00 20.7 60 min.
8.50 oz. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 6.00 3.7 15 min.
8.50 oz. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 6.00 2.3 2 min.
12.75 oz. Fuggle Pellet 5.00 4.6 15 min.
12.75 oz. Fuggle Pellet 5.00 2.9 2 min.

That's cool!

Today's brew day (Baltic Porter)