Boerderij Kabouter Brewery Design Series: The Single Vessel System

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I have been designing a lot of systems lately and thought it would be nice to have a blog dedicated to each so it would be easier for me to direct people and for reference. Hopefully this helps someone... The single vessel system is a BIAB style brewery that uses only a single kettle for all stages of brewing. It is simple to use and very minimalistic. First the pot is a single kettle with a full steaming basket.
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Here is how you could do 10 gallon AG batches with a single burner, single pot and single fermenter.

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That is a pretty sexy system
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Basic setup this is all you need.
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Heat all the water of to sparge temps plus a couple degrees for heat loss. Put grains in a grain bag inside steamer basket.
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Transfer sparge water into fermenter and cover with a blanket or other insulation. Add ice cubes to the kettle to bring liquor to strike temps.
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Put grain basket into mash and mash for desired schedule.
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Raise basket out of wort and sparge with the liquor held in the fermenter.
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Boil as usual.
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Cool, and transfer back to fermenter.
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It would be very easy to add a rims to this system for an automated mash temp control. Pretty cool IMO.
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I don't think you really need the sparge. 75-80 can be done with "normal" BIAB.
Also, just recirculate and use the burner to maintain temps and/or step-mash.
 
Wow, this is cool. I really like the visual aids, as well. I see where bakins is going with this, but I think you can still keep this thing beautifully simple with a vertical RIMS attached to the frame. From there it would be easy to do step mashing or deliver heated water for a sparge/mashout.
Do you think the 62qt basket will be big enough? Looking at the actual dimensions, it only comes to 9.75 gallons.
 
The pot is 82 quart or 20.5 gallons. https://www.pelicansky.com/productdetail.aspx?id=118&cat=66
Should be big enough for most 10g batches. The basket says it is full sized, but I can't find any dimensions???
 
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