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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    I've taken the first steps in adding to the brewery this year, by fitting an outside tap next to it as a water source, and by buying a new fermenter. I've also worked out how to go about chilling the beer in a sanitary way. Today though, I spent my lunch hour making this; a guide to how the...
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    Deep Six Brewery - back in action!

    If I had 420 on tap I'd be the happiest man alive :D alas, I live in the uk and there's a big pond between me and sweetwater perfection :( Just wondering why you've chosen to have strongbow on tap? If it's the same strongbow we have over here then it's the 'bud light' of ciders. If you want...
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    IC to HERMS coil?

    I too, use my old IC as a HERMS coil. It works fine :)
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    Brewery in a box! Some assembly required.

    Argus - Go to your flickr and for each photo do exactly the same as you have been but instead of copying the link from the 'grab the link' bit in flickr, below that there's 'grab the html/bbcode'. You want the bbcode version. select bbcode instead of html and copy the code into your forum post...
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Thanks guys : ) It's been a real learning experience making this, and I'm not sure I'd attempt it again without a workshop to build it in. Doing the whole thing outside in british weather is a right pain, and it's taken a whole lot of trial and error to get a working brewery. I'd love to give it...
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    I had planned to just have shelves on the top two bits but they've given me the offcut from the sheet I got, and it's big enough to do the two bottom shelves too! :)
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Just heading off to pick up the aluminium tread plate which has been cut and folded to size, really looking forward to seeing if it fits :D
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Fitted the casters the other day, which was a nice simple job. I was worried that only having 3 bolts in each would be a problem, but it's more than strong enough to hold the kegs full of water :) Today I ordered some aluminium tread plate for the top and shelf of the brewery - having it cut...
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    Deep Six Brewery - back in action!

    That's great! Did you build the cabinet yourself? I've always wanted to build a real mame machine :D
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    Wildwest's brew lean-to (my almost dream build)

    This is AWESOME. That is all that needs to be said :D
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    IT LIVES! Just need to get 2 28mm (PG21) cable glands to fit the bigger holes. The pump cable and PT100 temp probe cable will go through one of them, and the other is just a spare used to plug the hole :) H
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Cheers :) I'm sure I'll have loads more pics soon :) Only problem is I've run out of money for the rest of the month!
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    I think it will be mounted like this, with some decent labels (the current ones are just to remind me which switch does which while I wire it all up). It feels great to finally be able to get things done properly without cutting corners - now the prototype is done I'm on a mission to create my...
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Control panel is getting there :) Just got to work out how best to mount it! I might mount it in a way that it can have a clipboard bit on the top of it for brew day notes :D
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    Breweries and Introduction

    That's nuts! I started learning to surf this year in France, so can appreciate how mad that is! :) where abouts were the shots taken? I wish I had you workshop and skills :) - I hope you appreciate how awesome it is!
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    Just got one of these on ebay for £15 ($23 USD) The PID won't fit depth wise, but I'll either fix that by spacing it out with some sort of control panel fascia or I'll mount the PID in the side of the box. Not sure which way I'm going to do it yet :)
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    So now that the brewery was functional, it's time to disassemble it, clean every square millimeter of it., and get it brew-ready. First job is to strip down the rusty steel frame, and paint it with good thick rust-proof hammerite. I decided to use hammered finish paint as it shouldn't show...
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    PID Tuning - HELP!

    :) I'm not sure auotuning further is even necessary as I measured the oscillations and it doesn't deviate by more than 0.3*c, which I thing is more than good enough for brewing :) I'm going to clean the whole thing out and get brewing on it asap :) will be great to see how it does with a proper...
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    Brunken Dastard's Big Bad Brewery! 10gal eHERMS

    SUCCESS! The brewery held 66*c for over an hour easily! The PID control is finally up and running :D the temperature oscillated by 0.3*c every 2 minutes, which is more than adequate for a brewery. I'm also expecting it to be much more stable when the mash tun is full of insulating grain :) next...
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    PID Tuning - HELP!

    SUCCESS! We finally have fully functional PID control! :D it's been within 0.2 degrees of 66*c for half an hour, apart from once when I had to turn off the pump for 30 seconds to fix a leak, when it dropped to 59.5*c :) The problem I have with measuring it now is that it oscillates quicker...
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