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Cool, thanks!

The system started out with a smaller batch size in mind but as we started building and working through ordering the pots we kept bumping up volumes. We ran the numbers too and found that we can really only stuck to normal beers at that volume which for us is ok. We've brewed some strong stuff...

Lots of plumbing... The hlt mash tun and bk are done along with running all of the cold water and hard lines. We are using 12V electric ball valves to do all the wort and hot water diverting and some dishwasher valves off of surplus center to run all cold water around. Hopefully we will be...

Just built out my hop garden in a sheep pasture... Do sheep eat hops?! Should I put up some fence?

Heat shield being built. Going to resistance weld the stainless sheet together and trim it up a bit.

We made some plumbing progress tonight adding the cold water valve box and counter flow plate chiller. The cold water valves are from surplus center and were 8 bucks each. The garden hose input and waste water out connectors are installed along with the connector waiting for the fuel quick...

Mounted the sparge valve last night. It basically will be actuated for sparging only and also has the plumbing for the hlt water filling which is controlled by dishwasher valves down in the electrical box. The hlt and valve will have two barbs to connect them with a flexible silicone tube. More...

We're going to add some heat shielding to try and duct the exhaust out the sides around the frame rails. Its going to take some fancy sheet metal and stove paint for sure.

The mash run rotates easily now but we are a little worried about how the alignment of the pivots will change with mass. We opted for the large diameter pivots to try and ensure stiffness in the welds and kettle. We'll see. Load cells are off eBay. We have this one for the hlt and a ring type...

We're using the hlt for herms only... We have a chiller that we are going to pump through after boil. Good point though. I am worried about the stand temperature in general. We are going to be adding some shields and maybe a standoff for the hlt tank.

The hlt frame is done with the load cell supporting the one side of the pivot.

Do they use it for primary though? I'm just worried about cleaning out all the gunk everytime... And all the treatments between batches to get it ready for the next.

I upgraded our groups brew stand to 30 gallon batches and now we have to figure out how to ferment! What does everyone think of fermenting in barrels. We have a cheap source for wine barrels (55 gallon) so there would be some extra head room. Thoughts? I'm doing some souring now in a smaller...

The last one is UGLY... Don't judge!

The place is called nk designs. Just ask what colors they are running in the next couple weeks and they'll throw you in. Good luck!

Forgot to mention we found an awesome/ cheap place for powder coating. They'll throw your stuff in with whatever big bulk order they're doing at the time. Its in Jackson mi if anyone is interested let me know and I will forward you the contact info.

We did buy all the pots off eBay. The welding wasn't too bad, we have a guy who specializes in thin walled stainless welding so he finished them out. We had one weld that we had to patch up with some material but it wasn't too bad. The ticket was selecting the proper feed rod material. It seemed...

Nice! It might be worth popping a hole on the cap to bring the rims line through... Another note is to limit the length of the line from your rims chamber to the mash. I insulated mine too with some foam pipe insulation pieces from lowes...

I second the wacky temperature profile comment. I have been using an insulated herms systems very close to your setup and for fun I borrowed a 8 channel thermocouple probe from work. I recorded the mash temperatures at various radius and depths to find out what kind of variance there was from my...

What happens when a group of engineers take brewing too far...? We have been brewing on a two tier three keg system for quite a while and found that 15 gallons isn't keeping up with everyone's kegerator, so a batch size upgrade started becoming necessary. We elected to use these pots: Mash...