Brew day with the NEW conical from the HBT spike brewing contest!
In honor of our first brewer...President I decided to brew a golden strong belgian ale for the inaugural run of the spike brewing conical. First off, I am very grateful to have won this contest, and am very impressed with the construction and welds of the spike conical. Though I did swap out the sanitary ball lock valves with a butterfly and a racking arm with a sample valve. Im sure the valves it came with would have been fine, but I prefer butterfly valves for fermenters.
This is my More beer conical internal weld
This is my Spike brewing internal conical weld
Yesterday I passivated the conical and sanitized it, the lid was quite wonky but it did form a seal once tightened down.
I also got a chance to try out a bucket head wet/dry vacuum for cleaning out the mash tun. Though it did not have enough umph to suck up 27 lbs of grain, but after I scooped out the majority of the grain, the buckethead worked great to suck out the remaining grains and liquid. After I was done I sucked up about 2 gallons of 140ºF PBW water and then star san, and the rinsed it off with water. Looked good as new.
excited to see how this brew comes out!
In honor of our first brewer...President I decided to brew a golden strong belgian ale for the inaugural run of the spike brewing conical. First off, I am very grateful to have won this contest, and am very impressed with the construction and welds of the spike conical. Though I did swap out the sanitary ball lock valves with a butterfly and a racking arm with a sample valve. Im sure the valves it came with would have been fine, but I prefer butterfly valves for fermenters.
This is my More beer conical internal weld
This is my Spike brewing internal conical weld
Yesterday I passivated the conical and sanitized it, the lid was quite wonky but it did form a seal once tightened down.
I also got a chance to try out a bucket head wet/dry vacuum for cleaning out the mash tun. Though it did not have enough umph to suck up 27 lbs of grain, but after I scooped out the majority of the grain, the buckethead worked great to suck out the remaining grains and liquid. After I was done I sucked up about 2 gallons of 140ºF PBW water and then star san, and the rinsed it off with water. Looked good as new.
excited to see how this brew comes out!
