rurounikitsune
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Hi y'all. I'm thinking up crazy ideas in my head again.
Has anyone ever heard of anyone trying a 1bbl gravity fed brewhouse? I'm thinking of trying large batches a couple times a year, but we are pretty low-tech out here. A lot of y'all use electric pumps but we lose power often enough that I'd like to be able to do this without power. I won't be able to afford the equipment for a while (years) but I want to plan it out before I think about spending the money.
It would have to be 4-tier (HLT, MLT, Kettle, Fermenter) in order to not have to worry about moving tens of gallons of wort/hot liquor/mash. So the top tier would be pretty tall. But a staircase or something wouldn't be hard to rig up. Water could be added incrementally to avoid having do lift large amounts up to the HLT. Same with grains, a 5 gallon bucket at a time or so, one after the other into the mash tun. If the vessels all had ball valves at the bottom, and the conical had casters on the bottom so it could be moved to a more temperature-controlled location, I think it could work. The only thing I can think of is that the vorlauf would be a little tricky. I would have to collect wort and then dump it back into the MLT (or even the HLT... why not, if I premeasured my sparge water?).
Any ideas? Things that could go horribly wrong?
Has anyone ever heard of anyone trying a 1bbl gravity fed brewhouse? I'm thinking of trying large batches a couple times a year, but we are pretty low-tech out here. A lot of y'all use electric pumps but we lose power often enough that I'd like to be able to do this without power. I won't be able to afford the equipment for a while (years) but I want to plan it out before I think about spending the money.
It would have to be 4-tier (HLT, MLT, Kettle, Fermenter) in order to not have to worry about moving tens of gallons of wort/hot liquor/mash. So the top tier would be pretty tall. But a staircase or something wouldn't be hard to rig up. Water could be added incrementally to avoid having do lift large amounts up to the HLT. Same with grains, a 5 gallon bucket at a time or so, one after the other into the mash tun. If the vessels all had ball valves at the bottom, and the conical had casters on the bottom so it could be moved to a more temperature-controlled location, I think it could work. The only thing I can think of is that the vorlauf would be a little tricky. I would have to collect wort and then dump it back into the MLT (or even the HLT... why not, if I premeasured my sparge water?).
Any ideas? Things that could go horribly wrong?