Kayakr1988
Well-Known Member
Just finished my 30 gallon E- HERMs project and figured I would post a few pictures.
I got two 30 gallon as concord pots from eBay that I will be doing a fly sparge to help me from having to purchase a third vessel.
I have a 50 foot ss 1/2 HERMs coil that I use to both keep my mash at temp and cool down the boil after the boil is done.
A single 5500w element boils the entire batch. It took about 45-hour to get up to mash temp from 60 degrees with recirculating the HLT/boil kettle.
The mash tun has a blichmann false bottom welded to an outer ring for fitting purpose and added 8 legs for support while holding up to 80lbs of grain.
My mash went over great I didn't even lose a degree throughout the entire mash since I recirculated the entire hour.
Boil took about 45 minutes to star with the lid on and held the entire 60 minutes. I need to add a site gauge to get more accurate water volume numbers as I used a gallon to much water in the fly sparge.
For the cool down I whirlpooled for about 20 minutes and moved the wort to my mash tun to get more trub/hops out and so I could add ice water to the HLT/boil kettle to cool the wort down. It took one pass through the coil and went directly into the fermentor.
Here's some pictures.
I got two 30 gallon as concord pots from eBay that I will be doing a fly sparge to help me from having to purchase a third vessel.
I have a 50 foot ss 1/2 HERMs coil that I use to both keep my mash at temp and cool down the boil after the boil is done.
A single 5500w element boils the entire batch. It took about 45-hour to get up to mash temp from 60 degrees with recirculating the HLT/boil kettle.
The mash tun has a blichmann false bottom welded to an outer ring for fitting purpose and added 8 legs for support while holding up to 80lbs of grain.
My mash went over great I didn't even lose a degree throughout the entire mash since I recirculated the entire hour.
Boil took about 45 minutes to star with the lid on and held the entire 60 minutes. I need to add a site gauge to get more accurate water volume numbers as I used a gallon to much water in the fly sparge.
For the cool down I whirlpooled for about 20 minutes and moved the wort to my mash tun to get more trub/hops out and so I could add ice water to the HLT/boil kettle to cool the wort down. It took one pass through the coil and went directly into the fermentor.
Here's some pictures.