Another electric conversion build thread. Feel free to post thoughts, recommendations, whatever. this isn't something I'm good at. space limited people might get something out of it.
Have a finished room with tv, sink, a/c. Not much brew space and it must be a putawayable setup, not set and forget
The plan: use my two 15g vessels and a sort of dummy lautering/sparge pot and run a single element, single pump off single 240v outlet with a batch sparge.
Strike & Sparge water heated up in BK. Strike pumped over to MT. Mash would be recirculated with pump through a ss immersion chiller (sitting in the BK with already hot sparge water) and regulated with a controller. sort of a herms. Finished wort drained into pot & sparge water pumped to MT from BK. When the BK is empty, switch pump line to the pot, pump the wort up to the BK. Business as usual there except will be electric controlled and will have a steam condenser on the BK. then, pump lines switched to the plate chiller...there you have it. clean and put the whole thing on shelf. Legit or complete disaster?
1.Power: 30a or go bigger? if I decided to do b-t-b brews, the BK will be under 50% pwr and could use a smaller element on the pot, and stay with 30a but not sure. have a guy to do it now so I need to figure that out.
2. Steam: Brundog's stem condenser. which I've just recently completed as well as a TC ripple element. Has a 1.5" TC into a 2" T with spray nozzle...etc. you can check out that thread. super cool.
3. Controller will be a brew commander.
Photo album:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/album/A1PKCSZNICUJ4A:2N8mPUhITBucbcq3wi-VPg
Have a finished room with tv, sink, a/c. Not much brew space and it must be a putawayable setup, not set and forget
The plan: use my two 15g vessels and a sort of dummy lautering/sparge pot and run a single element, single pump off single 240v outlet with a batch sparge.
Strike & Sparge water heated up in BK. Strike pumped over to MT. Mash would be recirculated with pump through a ss immersion chiller (sitting in the BK with already hot sparge water) and regulated with a controller. sort of a herms. Finished wort drained into pot & sparge water pumped to MT from BK. When the BK is empty, switch pump line to the pot, pump the wort up to the BK. Business as usual there except will be electric controlled and will have a steam condenser on the BK. then, pump lines switched to the plate chiller...there you have it. clean and put the whole thing on shelf. Legit or complete disaster?
1.Power: 30a or go bigger? if I decided to do b-t-b brews, the BK will be under 50% pwr and could use a smaller element on the pot, and stay with 30a but not sure. have a guy to do it now so I need to figure that out.
2. Steam: Brundog's stem condenser. which I've just recently completed as well as a TC ripple element. Has a 1.5" TC into a 2" T with spray nozzle...etc. you can check out that thread. super cool.
3. Controller will be a brew commander.
Photo album:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/album/A1PKCSZNICUJ4A:2N8mPUhITBucbcq3wi-VPg
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