Been a while since I have posted here, but system is up and running. We have the hot side set up for manual and/or auto control as well as cold side running keezer, ferm chamber and aux. Brewed on it 5 or 6 times now and wish we had the power to run both simultaneously. We are doing 20 gallon batches so our brew-day goes something like this.
Single Batch- Fill HLT 24 gallons and MLT with required strike water and set BCS to come on 4 hours before brew day. Once HLT hits 205º the BCS turns on the Mash pump and begins recirculating the strike water through the HEX until it hits strike temp. It turns off and waits for us to mash in. continue to mash either single step or mash steps depending on the recipe. We keep the HLT at 205 until we mash out. Then the HEX brings the temp down of the HLT to sparging temps. Once the element in the BK is covered we turn on the element. Depending on how fast we run off determines how long to boil, but usually around 20-30 minutes. We then boil, whirlpool, knock out and inline oxygenate into the fermentor.
Double batching gets a little trickier trying to keep the HLT full and up to temp at all times. We started using and auxiliary Burner to heat the strike water which seems to speed things up a bit.
A single batch usually takes us 7 hours and a double 11ish.
Single Batch- Fill HLT 24 gallons and MLT with required strike water and set BCS to come on 4 hours before brew day. Once HLT hits 205º the BCS turns on the Mash pump and begins recirculating the strike water through the HEX until it hits strike temp. It turns off and waits for us to mash in. continue to mash either single step or mash steps depending on the recipe. We keep the HLT at 205 until we mash out. Then the HEX brings the temp down of the HLT to sparging temps. Once the element in the BK is covered we turn on the element. Depending on how fast we run off determines how long to boil, but usually around 20-30 minutes. We then boil, whirlpool, knock out and inline oxygenate into the fermentor.
Double batching gets a little trickier trying to keep the HLT full and up to temp at all times. We started using and auxiliary Burner to heat the strike water which seems to speed things up a bit.
A single batch usually takes us 7 hours and a double 11ish.