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Yeah I had mine shipped. It cost a lot to do it, but they were pretty cheap from a guy in cincinnati. Shipping to alaska tho ...... ouch $$

I think I'm going the inductor tank route. 85 gallon plastic conicals with stands. Double batch each day into 1 of them. 4 of them will run me about $1200 shipped. Pretty damn good price per gallon. I've read a bunch on cooling, and if needed, I'll probably throw a stainless coil down the...

Look at pages 3 and 4. There are pics of how I built it to open up.

Just keep checking eBay, you'll find some.

This is what I did. Might give you some ideas. Really, if I were you I would just look at all the keezer builds in the DIY forum. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/bar-build-basement-overhaul-progress-tracker-164329/ Good luck.

Those instant hot water heaters are a great option and it has definitely been something I have been pondering. Again, unfortuantely this comes down to the building I end up in and how much money I have to spend on renovations (i.e. not much). I'm hoping that whatever place I rent was already...

So I got the gate latches on and I did a water test. I found some beasty gate latches at home depot $11 a piece but they are nice and strong. Well worth the piece of mind. Pics Fixed! The water test was kinda nuts. I had a buddy come over and we filled all 3 kettles to the...

I totally agree. I usually have my first running boiling before my sparge is done right now. Hopefully I can keep that same timing going into the bigger system. The nice part in this case currently at least is that I can heat the HLT to sparge temps sooner becuase I wont have a herms coil...

Yeah 2 - 60 amp breakers with 2 - 5500 watts will do it, but damn it will be slower than I would like .... with 11000 watts it theroetically takes 67 minuts to raise 45 gallons water from 50 F to 162 F (Strike Temp) and then from 152 F to 198 F (boiling temp in Aurora, CO) it will take another...

I seem to recall hearing something to the 10-15% range. Its not hard in CO to evaporate quickly if need be. :D I'm not sure the heating elements will be on tri clover. But they will have easy disconnects from the panel. I've only seen one person that makes a tri clover to 1" pipe thread...

It all depends on what is available at the building I end up at. I will mostlikely set up the rig in close proximity to whatever panel is available (or I pay to be available) inside the building. Who knows. My concern is that time is my enemy. I have a full time job and have to keep it...

Wow, I guess i wasn't thinking I would get that much evaporation. It makes sense. Bummer. I don't think the BK will be that hard to clean. Every kettle will be bottom draining. I use pellet hops. I usually clean my current one with a hose and some gentle scrubbing. I'll be able to...

Haha. Good one. That would have been an interesting set up.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to figure out the biggest batch I can do without boil overs. I will need to make as much beer as possible, cuz even at this size I think i'm going to be brewing a lot to keep up with demand, or at least I hope so.

So I currently have a E-Herms. its in keggles. I do 12 gallon boils with my 5500W element at around 60% load for a ROLLING boil. I've talked to other people and done a few calcs. Obviously the more juice I have the faster I can get from mash temps to boil. I guess it depends on my...

Thanks! The car Hubs were cheap. My Dad's idea. He works at the car recycle place. $40 for something I KNOW will hold the weight. For fermentation I'm going to get some 3 BBL plastic conicals and do double batches into them. Cooling them has mme a bit at a loss atm. I'll either put them in...

From what I've read of other people going 1.5BBL you really don't need the HERMs to maintain temps. Its so much mass that the temp drop over an hour is like 2 degrees. I'm going to start without it and see what happens. I will be cannibalizing all the electrical from my old system. Yeah...

So I've decided to go Nano. I've started to build the new rig and figured I would document it here. Here's the google sketchup I started with: From there it was time to learn to weld. I bought a really crappy MIG welder to build the frame and got the 55 gallon stainless steel drums of...

How were you gonna do it? I'm very curious, cuz mine is mega heavy. Like I squat and lift it with both arms and legs. My wife has a hard time holding it up at all.

Very nice craftsman ship and holy crap on the amount of time you must have spent in Google Sketchup. You seem to have some pretty heavy duty heat sinks on the inside of your panel. Are you planning on a way to circulate the air in there? And change it over with some outside air for that matter?