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So as the title says I'm looking at building an automated propane fired system with the following craziness in my head... Using say a water heater gas valve (with propane orfice) and an electronic ignitor on my HLT and a Johnson/Penn thermostat (like the one used to convert my chest freezer...

Just so I have it straight.... Strike water of 150F (or so) Circulate original strike water through coil in HLT to maintain 150F (or so) for 60 mins. After 60 mins bring mash up to 170F by circulating through the coil in the HLT Slowly start transferring to boil kettle at the same rate...

So does this mean that you use mash out temperatures of say 170 F for instance with your sparging water that you are slowly trickling in on top of the mash? And I suppose you fly sparge until you get the correct volume in your boil kettle?

Thank you seems pretty straight forward

How does continuos sparging work? Do you do this with the initial water that you put in the mash tun or after you drain off your first wort into the boil kettle. I will have a pump with the wort circulating through a coil in the HLT so that I will be able to maintain temps. Another...

I was just wondering if there is an easy way to calculate Efficiency?? :tank:

Awesome build!! Hope to get there someday. It seems you have increased your volume substantially. Hope to see you at the Irish Fest. How are your sales going? I did not get to finish the whole thread, I tried but I have a power plant to run :smack:

Do not know if this is the right forum for this topic but here it is... I have a refrigeration background and I'm very good at siver soldering and lead free soldering. From my experiance I have found that silver soldering seems more sanitary, grant it is a higher heat soldering and if you do...

My understanding from working in a institutional setting for 14 years is 140F to rinse, 160F wash and 180F final rinse for sanitizing, this is the process I use and then every three months or so I will run some BLC through the entire system followed by a 180F rinse of all equipment.

Oops somehow missed the direct fired part. :drunk::drunk:

Nice work, but I to cannot get it to work. Can you convert to a pdf?

Can someone post some pictures of how they fabricated their burner mounts. I''m looking at using Hurricane products low pressure burner like the one attached and I was just wanting some ideas.

Can you tell me what the overall dimensions of the top are? Oh and take some pics of how you mounted the burners? :mug:

Have you seen the Keg Kozy? I saw it on here the other day, checked it out $39.95. Neoprene 7mm, keeps a keg cold for 6 hours and there are some homebrewer reviews on their website about using it on your MLT. Getting ready to build my AG setup and I think I will try this on my MLT for temp...

I think that after all the research that I have done for the last week I have decided to build a HERMS on a table platform and keep the footprint as small as possible. The main reason is the height at which you have to have the HL tank on a tree, then I started looking at pumps and such and...

:rockin: Count me in for 2013!! :ban:

Thanks for the info, this will help in my decision.

Just wondering if there was anything going on in the Fresno/ Visalia CA area for us HBers?

I'm new here....so first off Hello:mug: I'm getting ready to dive into all grain brewing by building my own brew tree. I have done a lot of research and got some great ideas. Probably go with a 3 tier system just to reduce the foot print in my garage. I have one issuue...is it better to keep...