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Brewed an IPA yesterday. Lots of willamette & cascade with some mt hood. Changed things up by adding my usual 20min as FWH. Also the first beer in my new ferm chamber. Its the one in the carboy. I pitched it last night at about 10:00 with WLP001, and it was bubbling away when I woke up this...

wyoder, That is the pump outlet hose from the mash tun, I was pulling off for the boil when that picture was taken.

vfinch, right on. I got my fittings from bargain fittings, and used Seawings to bring it to canada. Screen is the Hop Stopper from IHS. Works well from what I can tell, the siphon breaks really easy though when you're pullin through the trub. How far along are you?

Brewed my first batch today, went very well. Boiled off way too much and had to add a bunch of water to get the gravity right. Did a fat tire clone, after the boil it was at 1.062, added water to get 1.055. Here are a few pics.

I think this plan is definitely worth a try. I have a HERMS arrangement, with 5500W elements, and right now, just by dropping the duty cycle of the element in the HLT, I am able to hold my mash temperature relatively easy. It may take you a bunch of trial and error to get there, but it'll...

Gorgeous setup, I like the idea of having a sink in the middle.

That was my thinking also, I knew I was going to have 2 pumps, and a counterflow exchanger, so why not use them as much as possible. So far it's performed very well. The heat exchanger works very well, and I really like the way I have it plumbed, it makes for a fairly straight forward process...

Thanks Guys, It's a great feeling to have things pumping around and steaming away. I wanted to see what the heat exchange was capable of, so I did a "Mash Tun Shoot out". I got the HLT to boiling, with cold water in the mash tun, then I flipped the pumps on and waited to see what the mash...

If you check out my build: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/mash-tun-5-gal-electric-brewery-266056/ I have done something similar to what you're thinking. I am using a counterflow heat exchanger as both a heater and a cooler. During mash the HLT water is pumped around the shell side of the...

These pictures show the plumbing in it's finished state, and a couple shots of the complete system during testing. It's a pretty good feeling to finally get here after all the time in development/build. I am excited to start brewing on it.

The following pictures are pretty self explanatory. There are a couple shots of the false bottom, one with it on the floor, hinged up, and the other in the mash tun. The schematic shows the connections and valve schedule for each step of the process.

I started planning / building a home brewery about a year ago. The concept was simple enough, I wanted a brewery that would allow me to make a 5-10 gallon batch of beer in my garage, with good repeatability. After a lot of research, I decided to go with electric elements, since they met my...

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The Ebay store that I purchased mine from was friesen electric. While I was considering, they sold out and were re posted a couple times. It might be worth e-mailing them to see if they'll be listing any more. they're a sreamin' deal at about $75 shipped.

I am a first time grower, and just got my plants on the weekend. I found a local guy selling Cascade & Chinook clones, and when I went to pick them up, he added that he had a 1 year old centennial in a pot that he was willing to part with. So far I have the centennial in the ground, and am...

My mistake, I am using SJOOW cord, I just refer to it as Romex. It's Carol brand cord from HD. I use it for welders too, so it's no good to have a GFCI upstream. What I've done to get around this is to have an inline GFCI in my brewery cord.

*welders not welfare :o

I am in a similar situation. I have a detached garage with no 240V service. I went to home depot and bought 100 ft of 3-10 romex cable, put a dryer plug on one end, and a j-box with a 240v receptacle on the other. I run welfare that draw about 30a peak, and I just plug in to the dryer outlet...