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I am a 1bbl 3 Kettle electric brewer but I wasn't sure if this was discussed before.
Why couldn't I take a 1BBL Brite Tank(or any size) add two TC ports for heating elements and do everything in one vessel? Can have two ports on the back for heating and 3 on the front (temperature, sample port, and whirlpool/racking) then of course the dump port.
For the Mash and Boil, it would act like a standard BIAB system.
Then use the Racking Port/Whirlpool and Dump Ports to chill the batch back into the vessel.
Some Brite Tanks have full pressurized Lids (which give you enough space for the giant bag). So you pop that lid on and can now pitch yeast and pressurize the vessel during or after fermentation. You can pressurize through an extra TC port or have the sample port on a butterfly and pressurize though there.
The only issue I could foresee would be fermentation temperature. I thought about a jacketed brite tank but you don't want the glycol in there as you boil. Then I thought about a custom "herms" coil that sits in the lowest part of the brite tank that can be hooked up to your glycol machine. That coil will always sit in there.
Anyone else ever think of this idea? There has to be something I am missing. It would be an expensive piece of equipment but would save a ton of time as a one vessel system.
I am a 1bbl 3 Kettle electric brewer but I wasn't sure if this was discussed before.
Why couldn't I take a 1BBL Brite Tank(or any size) add two TC ports for heating elements and do everything in one vessel? Can have two ports on the back for heating and 3 on the front (temperature, sample port, and whirlpool/racking) then of course the dump port.
For the Mash and Boil, it would act like a standard BIAB system.
Then use the Racking Port/Whirlpool and Dump Ports to chill the batch back into the vessel.
Some Brite Tanks have full pressurized Lids (which give you enough space for the giant bag). So you pop that lid on and can now pitch yeast and pressurize the vessel during or after fermentation. You can pressurize through an extra TC port or have the sample port on a butterfly and pressurize though there.
The only issue I could foresee would be fermentation temperature. I thought about a jacketed brite tank but you don't want the glycol in there as you boil. Then I thought about a custom "herms" coil that sits in the lowest part of the brite tank that can be hooked up to your glycol machine. That coil will always sit in there.
Anyone else ever think of this idea? There has to be something I am missing. It would be an expensive piece of equipment but would save a ton of time as a one vessel system.