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Hi all, I'm planning a 10 liters setup for tests purposes and small batches of special beers. I got a 10 Gals set up that need to be rebuilt but it will wait a bit. The 10 gals setup was a flat setup with 2 kegs, 2 pumps, 1 Igloo cooler. I was doing fly sparging and was heating with 55 000...

I got no picture at work but there,s a thread for a 1/2 ball valve and a 3/8 inside.

I think it got a too little neck for mashing. I use one like this: http://cgi.ebay.de/Edelstahl-Thermoport-Thermobehaelter-50-Liter-Neuware_W0QQitemZ380172844206QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKoch_Grill_Imbisstechnik?hash=item5884113cae Sorry if it's a german link, but bought it there when I was in europe

Yep, I know you use it for a certain time now, and it's because of you that I'm going to use steam for my new setup :) I might be to afraid of ruining wort by overheating....

Your idea looks very interesting but I'm afraid you could blow your wort. Last week end I talked about steam mashing with a pal, because I'm about to rebuild my little brewery. He's a master brewer with diplomas and so on from Germany so I think he knows what he's talking about. About the...

Yep, linux is cool. I use debian at work and I'm waiting for all my stuff to arrive to be able to do a full backup of my laptop and reinstall my beloved desktop bsd.

Pressure cookers are safe as long as you dont mess with the safety valve. Well, I hope to be in the next steam brewers here ;) I'll ask my wife to take pics while I'm building the steam generator.

It's kinda like I want to do. Let the microprocessor do all the regulation and send to the computer all the sensors data and change the parameters on the fly :D

About safety, here we can buy valves with an hole on the arm to put a lock on it.

here are the pictures. First the steam generator from outside: Then from inside: As you can see, it's a little tank.

Sure, one 850W iron will be too small to boil 1.5 gals of water in a decent time. 2500W seems more reasonnable ;)

I was thinking about using flow counters to calculate how much water or wort is transfered. Those counters give 752 impulsions per litre and cost round $60. I'll buy one to test and see what can be done ;) thebikingengineer => I'm also supposed to be an engineer in mechanics and automated...

Full automation is not a good choice. Assisted brewing is maybe better ;) I'm still working of my future brewery to automate mash temp and sparging. I might also try after that to deal with HLT heating automation.... You're lucky, I'll only have a 2x16 chars LCD, not touch screen !

Maybe because the braid could cover the slots in the copper and this should lead to filtration loss. No ? Mais be a braid covering a copper manifold with bigger slots ?

This week end I had to repair a steam generator for an iron. So I had a look inside, and I saw something not so stupid. The tank was 2 quarts, in stainless steel, looking like a box. There was an output for a gauge, one for a pressure switch, one for the steam solenoid valve. Of course there...

Just wear gloves, glasses and ear plugs and never remove the guard ! The fingers are not supposed to be close to the disc. I cut myself a few years ago, but I removed the guard.... stupid me. Nothing really bad but hurts a bit. Btw, buy a good brand. I bought one 20$, china...

Wear good gloves and glasses as well as ear plugs. It's for your safety. Getting hot stuff in the eyes really hurts, harming your ears is not cool, and drilling a hand makes drinking beer harder ;) Don't forget to lubricate while drilling. Be gentle with your tool, not like me when I was...

You should take a look at crankandstein. They put some nice pictures of mills and lot of infos

bought it from a german company that sells them cheap. I might try to buy another one, just in case ;)

sometimes copper is treated, you can wash it with soap and vinegar then boil it.