Basement Electric Brewery

[kchomebrew]

If you have an iphone or smartphone with a panaromic app, you should take a picture. Keep up the good work.

What are you brewing first? Basement Brown?

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Sure thing. I've got panoramic on the phone. Once I get everything set , I'll take a photo with that view. Got the table top shelf added in and need to stain it. Working on installing the closet shelves. EBC 3 controller box arrived and works great. Have a long weekend ahead of setting up the fittings and valves on the kettles and mounting the control box and wires. Also need to coil the copper tubing (decided on copper over SS....copper is cheaper and avail. ...who cares anyway, they work the same) HERMS coil for the HLT. Still waiting for the heating elements to arrive from Spike Innovations. Hopefully will arrive this week or early next week (can't do much without those). Anyway, I'll post some photos this weekend when things start to come together.

 

[kchomebrew]

Oh. And first beer I'll probably brew will be an Irish Dry Stout and then an Irish Red. I need to get the beers brewed, fermented and bottled in time for St. Pats. After that, who knows....

 

[kchomebrew]

Well. Finally done. Will test with water and then can brew.

 

[kchomebrew]

Chiller

 

[kchomebrew]

More

 

[kchomebrew]

Pumps

 

[kchomebrew]

So the ebc control box only has one pump switch so I put in a remote control on off switch on the outlet for pump #2

 

[kchomebrew]

Ebc 3

 

[kchomebrew]

Spike innovations pre built elements.

 

[kchomebrew]

Hoses

 

[kchomebrew]

Cold water qd valve attachment for filling hlt and connecting to chiller

 

[kchomebrew]

I do plan to add in a whirlpool connection to the boil kettle and that's tje last valve I have to add.

 

[kchomebrew]

Herms coil was copper....for now. Maybe some day ss. I had 50 ft of coil at a cheap price on copper so I went with it.

 

[kchomebrew]

Finished product

 

[kchomebrew]

Temp probes

 

[ScotBrew]

Looks good! I like it!

 

[abarker8541]

Looks awesome!!! Care to show it off and brew sometime??

 

[kchomebrew]

Panoramic

 

[1fast636]

nice use of space well done man looks great

 

[mwhiz]

looks awesome!!! Care to show it off and brew sometime??

+1

 

[Weezy]

Great build!
The adventure is half the fun...

hey, the electrical panel, is that a sub-panel just for the brewery?

 

[kchomebrew]

Great build!
The adventure is half the fun...

hey, the electrical panel, is that a sub-panel just for the brewery?

Yes. I brought in an additional 200 amps of service to the home. I have a finished off section of the basement and another unfinished area along with the brewery room.All basement power runs off that panel.

 

[kchomebrew]

Brewed my first beer on the system yesterday. All went well. Really pleased with it all. Effortless to brew on and hit all my #'s perfectly.

 

[Weezy]

just lovely...congrats!

edit: hey, what are the disks under the tanks?

 

[Chriso]

Not to speak for OP or anything, but they look to me like wooden Lazy Susan boards. (Meaning, the round board you buy, then screw the hardware onto the bottom of, to create your own Lazy Susan.)

 

[rockinmarty]

I think it's pieces of cork. It's pretty standard under your pots in an e-brewery.

 

[Chriso]

I would normally agree with you, but that looks like really, really thick cork. Like, as thick as a wooden Lazy Susan kit from the hardware store. (I am looking at first pic, post #83)

 

[kchomebrew]

Yes. Its actually wood pieces I found at home depot. I've been to several different home depots and noticed they have these avail at every single one in the lumber section. I just happend to walk past them and saw that they were 17.5 in diameter,, which is the exact width of the 20 gal blichmann kettles. Its a perfect fit. And they're only $7 a pop.

 

[kchomebrew]

Thought I would post that the condensation on the vent hood was pretty substantial during the boil. Fortunately I built edging/lips around the bottom of the hood vent to catch the runoff. If I hadn't done this, there would have been condensation dripping off all over the kettles and table and floor. I certainly recommend, if you build your own hood vent, make sure you build in lips around the bottom to catch the condensation drip. Not one drop of runoff hit the table or kettles. I did have to take a towel and soak up the water out of the edging. Thinking I'll drill a small hole on one corner, slightly tilt the hood and then connect in some vinyl tubing so the moisture drains out. Overall, it works well and if you are thinking of building an eHERMS system do not overlook having something like this in your build.

 

[Fly_Rodder]

Thought I would post that the condensation on the vent hood was pretty substantial during the boil. Fortunately I built edging/lips around the bottom of the hood vent to catch the runoff. If I hadn't done this, there would have been condensation dripping off all over the kettles and table and floor. I certainly recommend, if you build your own hood vent, make sure you build in lips around the bottom to catch the condensation drip. Not one drop of runoff hit the table or kettles. I did have to take a towel and soak up the water out of the edging. Thinking I'll drill a small hole on one corner, slightly tilt the hood and then connect in some vinyl tubing so the moisture drains out. Overall, it works well and if you are thinking of building an eHERMS system do not overlook having something like this in your build.

Great job on the build, it looks fantastic.

And yes to this. I get a fair amount of condensation in the hood, but I wipe it down with a few paper towels during the boil and I get by. Also, while you're wiping down the underside of your hood, don't be tempted to check the suction of your hood by waving the paper towel near the duct opening. The suction is plenty strong and you'll only end up having to take apart your duct work and retrieve the paper towel from the inline fan during your boil. It's no fun.