How's my brewery

1st time on a site like this. Almost done automating my brewery and wanted to post some pics

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Im guessing you take brewing quite seriously!!

a bit too fancy for my taste (ironic as that may be), but as long as you're happy with it, then so am I!

what kind of MPG you get with that thing anyhow?ipe:

I never saw anything quite like that. Does it require 90 octane gasoline??

Looks awesome. Love to have som explanation as to what the various components are. What are those black rubber filter housing looking things?

Damn cool man.

Black things are pneumatic actuators for diaphragm valves. Below is a pic of the heat exchanger. Made it all myself

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WOW!!!! I think you get the award for best first post!

Well done!

Cheers
Jay

So is it a 1 BBL? I think I see three vessels, so I'm assuming it's a traditional BK, MT, HLT setup. They're off set though, so are you gravity feeding at some point?

How are you dealing with what must be a ton of spent grain in terms of removal from MT?

Are you also building fermenters? Are you planning a cold room or some other form of temperature control?

That is a sweet build. You must be an engineer or machinist or something. Good stuff!

So it brews about 20-25 gallons a batch. All stainless construction. It is electrically heated with a burner for the kettle so it can be either. Has 12 air operated valves all of which are pharmaceutical grade. Electrical panel is 24x32 and mounted on a pivot to the stainless frame. Whole system weighs about 1500lbs or so. Heat exchanger can heat or cool so it works as a mash heater as well as a wort cooler. Calculations say it should cool down to 70 f in 6 minutes. Flow rates are 12 gal/min with sanitary gear pump. Mash run is double walled with insulation between to hold temps. I always explain it as ridiculous.

Mash run gravity feeds to kettle. The mash run pivots and dumps into a trash can

I will try and do a more thorough write up and explanation soon. Thanks for the comments.

Sweet ride! Looks like 3/4 of the engine on the Serenety

jeskate said:

I always explain it as ridiculous.

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We like ridiculous around here. Nice build and welcome.

Does it have an electric starter or is it kick start?


Flipping gorgeous rig man.

Does it have a flux capacitor from a Delorean time machine?

Can't find one on eBay yet.

jeskate said:

Black things are pneumatic actuators for diaphragm valves. Below is a pic of the heat exchanger. Made it all myself

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nice can heat cool and terminator can take out entire police department with it

Im guessing you take brewing quite seriously!

NASA called. They want their Shuttle Engine back.

That is bad ass. Even if it didn't brew beer it would still be bad ass.

Is it carbuerated, or fuel injected? Is that a trubo charger in picture #3?

how many rounds per minute?

Wow! Thats quite the rig. Definitely has a "future time warp" look to it. I'm hoping it produces as great a beer as it looks. I would love to see it in operation as you brew. Maybe you can post a youtube of your brew day?

I keep my gear simple.
But I think yours wins first prize.

Looks like a nice, simple, basic beginners setup. It'll do you fine for now. But once you get a few batches under your belt, you'll probably start to think about upgrading. Google "brew in a bag" when you're ready to make the next step.

Is this the "real" brewing machine I've heard people speak of around here?

you realy need to up your game, from that mickey mouse unit, i have a extra MR. Beer I can trade you for it.

Welcome!

Let me be the first of many to tell you, you're gonna regret not going 50 gallon. I mean for the same amount of work you can have twice as much beer.

What's a sanitary gear pump? You mean a rotary lobe pump?

I have had the system running manually for 5 years and love the volume. I can run double batches off the mt as it is 48gallon. Sanitary gear pump is similar to lobe pump but with helical gears. Made by unibloc.

Damn that's ridiculous...Nice work. Can it read your mind and brew the beer your imagining If so i want one.

All I can say is you are either single or have a very understanding wife.

ruralbrew said:

All I can say is you are either single or have a very understanding wife.

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Or your Mormon and its both!!

normonster said:

Or your Mormon and its both!!

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Mormons are single and have understanding wives?

In some sense, in some parts....maybe. 😉

hunter_la5 said:

Mormons are single and have understanding wives?

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pssshhh! don't you know anything? Mormons don't live by the same space/time laws as the rest of us. they can be married with kids and yet also existing simultaneously and a point before they got married. say you're eating an apple. you are holding the half eaten apple in your right hand. look in your left hand. it's a lottery ticket with only 2 of the numbers off. don't look at your left hand, it's a distraction. look back at your right hand, at the half eaten apple. it is simultaneously existing with the same uneaten apple in the same space. this is how Mormons exist on a daily basis. but it only works with the present coexisting with the past and not the present coexisting with the future. in special cases, the past can coexist with the future but not with the present as well.

I hope this helped to clear up the mysteries of the Mormons a little!