1/2BBL Brewery Build

[dmarc85]

DFH Midas came to visit Happy Friday!


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[user 125772]

just curious, what happened to the stainless tray in the brew stand?

Congrats on the first batch in the fermenter.... did you really use 1 pound (at 75 mins) of cascade in that beer?

 

[dmarc85]

just curious, what happened to the stainless tray in the brew stand?

Congrats on the first batch in the fermenter.... did you really use 1 pound (at 75 mins) of cascade in that beer?

Haha. No, I used a total of 1lb combined during 4 additions over the entire 75mins, not an entire lb for the whole 75mims. I should have clarified. The SS tray need up being too small I plan to re-repurpose it as a prep surface next to my gas grill. Thanks!

 

[dmarc85]

Getting ready for beer

 

[dmarc85]

Ready to drink beer


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[BeerGrylls]

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Ready to drink beer


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Be right over. You prefer pepperoni or Hawaiian?

 

[dmarc85]

Hawaiian.


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[dmarc85]

Gulp

Gulp

Gone

This keg is gonna get attacked once 5 o'clock rolls around!


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[dmarc85]

ok so I finally took the time to wire in a new circuit within my ferm cooler for powering my heater and stir plate. Basically, what you see in the photos is how I spliced the power cable just before the main terminal, enclosed the splice in a j-box and ran the cable up the back of the cooler and into a perfectly fitted hole. I then just simply installed a receptacle over the inlet.





You can see that nice pretty heater running. The only piece I still need will be a heater temp controller. I think I'll pick up something a a nearby reptile store. Something simple and cheap.

Once I get that controller installed, I can brew up whatever I'd like at whatever time of year. No matter if its -10F or +100F. Of course I'll always have a perfect pot to spin up a new starter at the same time

 

[dmarc85]

I struggled with my trub in my shirron chiller plate on my first batch, so tonight I sterilIzed it again after noticing a funny smell from that unit.

Since my last brew day, I've mounted the chiller on the wood stand; I've also hose clamped a few connections that worried me (mostly incoming). I resterilized the inline oxygenation system that I purchased from morebeer.com as well.




Prior to this build I've only used IC's to cool my wort, but tonight I was really impressed at how fast and simple my Shirron plate chiller was.


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[dmarc85]

I added a 27gal conical to increase my productivity.
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I also got my hands on a few sanke style kegs and wow...I can crank out so much beer! Using the sanke kegs was a bit intimidating at first, but once I got a little practice taking the ring out and reinstalling it, I'm happy to have them.
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I'm happy to say that I now make far more beer than I can drink and I could realistically make far more beer than I could even fit in my three door cooler!
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I just pumped out and labeled some growlers and I've got people banging down my door for more! Haha. I'm an unofficial beer-baron Not for profit...yet
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[dmarc85]

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[ChocolateMaltyBalls]

I'm happy to say that I now make far more beer than I can drink and I could realistically make far more beer than I could even fit in my three door cooler!

Buddy if you were drinking that much you'd need to add a liver transplant to the build.

Great system! Thanks for letting us ogle.

 

[bnairuni87]

Interesting labels on your growlers.

What did you you to create them, what paper did you print on and is that a QR code?

Thanks

Brent

 

[dmarc85]

Interesting labels on your growlers.

What did you you to create them, what paper did you print on and is that a QR code?

Thanks

Brent

The paper is actually just printer paper thats been soaked in brewed tea. And yes, that is a qr code that links to my website www.marchesebrewing.com

Here is another example of a label

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[user 125772]

I struggled with my trub in my shirron chiller plate on my first batch, so tonight I sterilIzed it again after noticing a funny smell from that unit.

Since my last brew day, I've mounted the chiller on the wood stand; I've also hose clamped a few connections that worried me (mostly incoming). I resterilized the inline oxygenation system that I purchased from morebeer.com as well.

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Prior to this build I've only used IC's to cool my wort, but tonight I was really impressed at how fast and simple my Shirron plate chiller was.

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I use one of those as well, works like a charm.
Just make sure you keep the goop out of it

 

[dmarc85]

I just blew a chunk of gnarliness out of the chiller last night. Haha. It was disgustingly impressive.

Here are some of the latest shots of my setup. I'm spinning up some yeast for a fat batch of edworts apfelwein.

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