Recent content by Rynolee

I have had my Picobrew Z1 for about 2 months now and just finished a second brewing session with poor OG and clarity. (Kolsh and Coconut Porter). I primarily brew on a half barrel rig and have tons of experience getting spot-on results but wanted a small system to test batches before ramping...

Just ordered mine and cannot wait. My buddy has brewed over 200 batches on his Zymatic and convinced me it’s the way to go for test batches and variation to our more traditional brew sessions. I plan on testing on this unit before scaling up to my 15-gallon rig. Plus it will give me the...

I live down the street and know the brewery very well. Tony McGee will still operate Lagunitas and still design future beers but now under Heineken. Their goal is to create a "craft beer" division, which will be under Lagunitas for worldwide distribution. They mainly just operate out of...

After removing the cooler valve assembly the bulkhead simply fit inside that space and I used a washer and gasket to seal it. The 1/2" copper pipe in the last photo posted slipped into the ball valve perfectly and didn't have a gap. I posted the ball valve assembly in my parts list, which is...

I would look at www.strutchannelfittings.com. I purchased from this site on my custom build that has stainless steel on top and was very satisfied with the service and quality of receiving exactly what I ordered. Plus they were able to cut down pieces to the exact measurements I shared with...

I'll be brewing a Peanut Butter Cup Stout on Sunday using PB2, given that it's powder-based and removes most of the oils based on other threads using PB2. I will definitely keep you updated as I want a chocolatey-peanuty aroma/taste thru and thru. I saw this recipe posted earlier and modified...

Very nice! I like the center mounted pumps. Do you find that the the vertical mounting helps with priming them? Any heat issues from the center burner?

Here are the pieces we cut to mount the burners to the stand We had to drill one of the holes a bit off kilter due to alignment but it ended up working very well. We started with two 6-foot pieces and cut them each down to 6 - 11" pieces to mount all three burners. The spacing from the burner to...

I fabricated my own as well. Purchased 2-6ft straps that had holes every 1/2 inch or so. Cut to perfect lengths and the holes lines up spot on to the Blichmann burners. Bent to 90 degree angles and mounted flush. I was quite impressed that it worked so well. I might be able to upload some pics...

We purchased a stainless steel U-Bolt which went around the pump and long enough to strap through the bottom of the strut. Worked perfectly! You can see the bolt in the picture attached:

The stainless strut I ordered was just enough for what was shown. Nothing left over. Heat comes up from the corners a bit and after doing a 30 min test run, I got some discoloration in the SS, but no big deal! No reason to direct heat anywhere else as the get shield on the blichman burners do a...

The stainless steel top of the stand and blichmann burners were the most expensive. But I came in about where I thought I would, which allowed me to invest in some great tubing and stainless steel brew equipment I wanted.

I'm in!

We finally completed the brew stand this afternoon. We did a wet run and found zero leaks (liquid or gas) and everything flowed from one kettle to the next very seamlessly. We will be adding an additional pickup tube in the MLT (and maybe HLT) as the system currently leaves behind 1.5...

Here's the brew stand completely assembled with the blichmann gas tubing attached directly to the needle nose valves of the manifold after decoupling them from the propane end.