mvestel
Member
Hi,
We have a home brew setup and want to improve the fermenter.
We currently brew about 22 gallons, but hope to increase that to about 35gal soon. Or we will make two worts and transfer both to one fermenter.
My goal is to build an ultimate fermenter. Im looking for designs I can compile to get my ultimate conical fermenter with glycol-jacked, etc designed so we can build it. We have access to a shop where we can weld stainless steel
Im soliciting advice on my current approach (Eric Lowes post helped) and Im looking for actual plans:
Attributes and advantages
Conical: Save yeast from secondary to repitch so you can do Primary and Secondary fermentation in one vessel, easy to clear because cone encourages flocculation
Stainless steel (Sanitary, can make into a pressure vessel, etc.),
Pressure Vessel: Rack with CO2 to keep away from Oxygen,
Pressurized fermentation possibly, by replacing airlock with relief valve at end of fermentation
Glycol-Jacketed: heat and cool for temperature control
Transfer to fermenter via a pump.
Volume I can adjust when we design it, but Im thinking for 44gal we need some headspace so maybe a total of 55gal conical fermenter.
Does anyone have plans for any of these components we can add to our design. Most notably, the Glycol-Jacketed design is not shown in many places. Thanks.
There was concern we had an unsafe setup in a previous post, but this is not the case as we upgraded our platform. Thanks for all the concern. Its nice to see breweres worried about safety too!
Im posting here as I think it might be the right section.
We have a home brew setup and want to improve the fermenter.
We currently brew about 22 gallons, but hope to increase that to about 35gal soon. Or we will make two worts and transfer both to one fermenter.
My goal is to build an ultimate fermenter. Im looking for designs I can compile to get my ultimate conical fermenter with glycol-jacked, etc designed so we can build it. We have access to a shop where we can weld stainless steel
Im soliciting advice on my current approach (Eric Lowes post helped) and Im looking for actual plans:
Attributes and advantages
Conical: Save yeast from secondary to repitch so you can do Primary and Secondary fermentation in one vessel, easy to clear because cone encourages flocculation
Stainless steel (Sanitary, can make into a pressure vessel, etc.),
Pressure Vessel: Rack with CO2 to keep away from Oxygen,
Pressurized fermentation possibly, by replacing airlock with relief valve at end of fermentation
Glycol-Jacketed: heat and cool for temperature control
Transfer to fermenter via a pump.
Volume I can adjust when we design it, but Im thinking for 44gal we need some headspace so maybe a total of 55gal conical fermenter.
Does anyone have plans for any of these components we can add to our design. Most notably, the Glycol-Jacketed design is not shown in many places. Thanks.
There was concern we had an unsafe setup in a previous post, but this is not the case as we upgraded our platform. Thanks for all the concern. Its nice to see breweres worried about safety too!
Im posting here as I think it might be the right section.