Here's my wooden rig that I built this weekend. She's ugly, but should get the job done. I can't wait to break it in!
I beg to differ my friend. Anything built for the purpose of brewing is a thing of beauty! Is that Hem Fir?
Might as well add mine to the mix. This is built with some left over deck materials. I could probably park a car on it...
Here's my wooden rig that I built this weekend. She's ugly, but should get the job done. I can't wait to break it in!
Looks good to me
What type of casters did you use. I need to put some on mine as moving it without them is a royal pain, even with the neighbors help.
I'll share too...
Mine's based roughly on the design at http://www.breweryconstructionguide.com, though I went single tier and I added a distribution manifold above the whole rig. I also had to work with metric sizes, since I built this thing in Germany, buying most of the hardware from the US via the internet.
I do have to say, that first day, I had vivid images of "The Towering Inferno" running through my head... but 40+ batches later, the wood is still in GREAT shape - it NEVER even gets warm.
I do have to admit, though... I get a little wood when I see the stainless steel sculptures that others spend their days in front of... if I could only TIG weld...
Dude that is SWEET - I'd take tat over a SS rig any day!
Namako...What are those glass bulb looking things at the top of your rig in the pic?
I thought about a single tree trunk type of design but got nervous about the amount of weight possibly unbalancing as water was moved around. 3 empty kegs but with 15-20 gallons of boiling hot water and hot mash moving from front to side to back, etc. inserting and removing kegs and pots to clean and replace them
Risk is 10+ gallons of boiling napalm, hot mash remains and a couple hot propane cookers still burning and attached to heat sources by rubber hoses that can get cut by hot, sharp metal.
Hm. I decided wider is better.
...and you summed up VERY well why I went with a single wooden tier and just bought a couple of $100 pumps off of eBay. I'm old, I'm slow, and I have the reaction time of a sea cucumber... if I start hearing any wood creaking or cracking, even I can still stumble clear of the stand before I get a hot bath....
Here is my rig:
http://homebrewery.shutterfly.com/
Some small additions still needed but mostly done. Test run this week, inaugural brew day this weekend!
Here is a shot of mine in action last weekend. Still working on mounting the pump and a plumbing plan. All pumps/plumbing needs to be able to come off because it gets stored in the shed and it gets cold in NE.
Here's mine I just finished this afternoon, ready for my first AG batch tomorrow afternoon.
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