Brew stand build, in progress with pictures!

[EmDubeu]

Welding the brew stand top.

http://youtu.be/EguBixzpalk

 

[EmDubeu]

More progress today. Caster mounting plates and brewstand top all got welded today.

 

[zach976]

Those are some good looking welds.

 

[EmDubeu]

This welder is very good at welding stainless steel, and this is why it has taken so long to get him to work on this project. He's in high demand in the shop. He is very maticulous at his work.

I'm hoping to have this baby all welded by Christmas.

 

[BrewingChemist]

any chance ican get a copy of your cad files? these are awesome!!

and wow! on those welds. sure are pretty!

 

[ChuckO]

I'm jealous! I guess that I started my career as a manufacturing/automation engineer about 40 years too early.

That's a great design and the execution looks spectacular.

 

[EmDubeu]

More progress on the welding, cutting, and bending of parts. This one is the mounting plate for the piezo igniter system we designed for starting the burners.

 

[EmDubeu]

Here is one of the redesigned plates that the kettles will rest on. Notice the vent holes, which will allow hot gases to wash out the back of the kettles and not towards the front where my valves and sight glasses are...

 

[EmDubeu]

Here's an image of the mounting bracket for the kettle filing faucet.

 

[EmDubeu]

Not part of the brew stand, but just as cool... Today I racked 10 gallons of an America Wheat from primary to two 5 gallon cornies, all the while in a closed, oxygen free environment. I pushed the beer with co2 into co2 purged cornies.

 

[Stealthcruiser]

Nice!
That's hell for stout on your faucet bracket!

 

[EmDubeu]

Almost done....

 

[EmDubeu]

We're making progress on this build. We hope to be brewing on it Mother's Day weekend (fingers crossed). The pictures in this latest post show the bottom shelf welded in place and it also shows the shelf struts, laser cutouts for pumps and pot supports.

 

[maierhof]

Wow - incredible shop - and incredible build!

 

[iijakii]

Yeah great build - more jealous of the shop though!

 

[ImNoExpert]

Shiny!

 

[EmDubeu]

All welded, just need to be brushed and polished.

 

[wikus]

I suppose that is what you call metal porn?

 

[orangehero]

Can't wait to see the whole system when that's just the stand.

 

[EmDubeu]

Bringing home this baby tomorrow!

 

[EmDubeu]

It's finally home. We added the pot filler faucet and we need to plumb it to the filtered water line. The burners, pumps, chiller, and control panel will get installed in the next week and so will the black pipe for the LPG.

 

[helterscelter]

It's finally home. We added the pot filler faucet and we need to plumb it to the filtered water line. The burners, pumps, chiller, and control panel will get installed in the next week and so will the black pipe for the LPG.

are those kegs in the cart/shelf in the lower right corner custom made? they look like a 15.5g sankey with the top of a 10g corney welded on..

 

[EmDubeu]

Why yes they are custom 15.5 sanke kegs with a corney top welded on. I use them for fermentation. Love them!

I also have a custom corney lid that I had a thermowell welded in. This way I can monitor fermentation temperature and adjust heating or cooling devices in the fermentation chamber as needed. I put a stainless steel valve on the lower side of the sanke fermenter so I can take samples throughout the fermentation process. It has a racking type arm on the inside that let's me change the position from which I draw the sample. Works extremely well and fast.

 

[helterscelter]

Why yes they are custom 15.5 sanke kegs with a corney top welded on. I use them for fermentation. Love them!

I also have a custom corney lid that I had a thermowell welded in. This way I can monitor fermentation temperature and adjust heating or cooling devices in the fermentation chamber as needed.

That is pretty darn slick. I've been considering putting bigger triclover fittings on some sankeys for use as fermentors.. but welding on a corney top is a cool idea..probably cheaper than the TC fittings too..

 

[EmDubeu]

That is pretty darn slick. I've been considering putting bigger triclover fittings on some sankeys for use as fermentors.. but welding on a corney top is a cool idea..probably cheaper than the TC fittings too..

Yeh, I think it would cost less, too. Another great advantage with the sanke fermenter setup is that I can do a pressurize, closed system transfers to secondary or to a corney. Beer never is exposed to oxygen. Cleaning is kinda a biotch cause my arms are almost too big to fit through the corney opening, although I manage to get it done.

 

[EmDubeu]

Pics of the pot filler mounted.

 

[PlexVector]

I just did a scan of the thread and first impression was "those are some great welds!" Really nice workmanship. I'm also jealous.

 

[EmDubeu]

I just did a scan of the thread and first impression was "those are some great welds!" Really nice workmanship. I'm also jealous.

I wish I could say they were done by me. I agree with you in that the welder did an incredible job.

 

[EmDubeu]

The top of the brew stand is made up of removable plates. This way we can easily clean or remove some plates if we find there is not enough heat displacement. We can also redesign and replace the plates where the kettles rest on if we need to.

You'll also notice the triangular cutouts on the back portion of each of the plates the kettles rest on. In theory, this will allow the heat to wash up the back of the kettle where there's no valves. We'll see how it works on its maiden voyage.

 

[EmDubeu]

Here's some details about the pot filler faucet.

We wanted a way to fill both the HLT and MT with a permanently setup filtered water connection that was easier to use than just simply running my filtered water hose to each kettle.

On the brew stand there is a virticaly extended piece of 1 by 1 inch square steel that has a plate welded at the top where a stainless steel pot filler faucet can be attached. We are going to connect the faucet to some pex line and run it down the inside of the vertical steel piece of metal. At the bottom of the steel piece there will be a sharkbite elbow that a 3/4 inch hose fitting can connect to. It is also setup with a brass quick connect/disconnect fittings for ease of use. We'll then run a coiled rv hose that is connected to a 10 mic filter.

Here's some pics of the setup, minus the pex line.