Breweries and Introduction

[FlatDog]

This really is an impressive rig. Are you planning on putting it into a brewpub as is or would you look to build a bigger/newer rig?

 

[Jonathon]

I visited this thread quite a while ago and it has only gotten better. The work quality and design are just amazing, but your patience is what I really admire. I have never worked on anything that long.

Back on 10 May, you said you would shoot a video or a live feed of your first brew. Are we getting close to the premiere date?

Cheers mate,
Things have been slow lately, we have had huge surf and I ride freestyle stand up jetski so brewery taken a back seat.
There really is only some programming to finalize so maye Christmas is a reasonable target.

Ok thanks, I have 2 more questions hehe !

- Isn't that risky to let the cuting knife in the mash for recirculation (preferential path...) ?

+Well maybe but that's still left to be determined, I cant see it being a big problem.

- Are you stirring for lautering ?

+No i'm not stirring during lautering

Thanks a lot for your answer.

Cheers

C

peristaltic pump at 4L / min for recirculation (1gal / min) ?

thanks

+ This depends greatly on your systems ability to transfer heat and your mash tun heat loss.
As far as I can see, recirculation should be adequate to hold your mash temp with disturbing the grain bed or causing a stuck mash situation. So slower is better.

This really is an impressive rig. Are you planning on putting it into a brewpub as is or would you look to build a bigger/newer rig?

Cheers Mate,
I am planning on a small brewery someday, obviously this system is on the small side but would be great for trial beers , I have started collection 1000L tanks for a larger system I have 3 so far..

 

[chrisbellet]

hehe thanks for the answers, I don't know if I have to be jaelous for the rig or for the swell !!!
cheers

 

[Jonathon]

No worries,
Here's some photo's I took of my mate and a couple of myself in action..

www.rpcrew.com

 

[chrisbellet]

hehe nice !!!

 

[onelegout]

That's nuts! I started learning to surf this year in France, so can appreciate how mad that is! where abouts were the shots taken?

I wish I had you workshop and skills - I hope you appreciate how awesome it is!

 

[Jonathon]

Cheers mate, The shots are taken in my home town, Portland , Victoria, Australia. Its a small surf side town .. There is nothing as exhilarating as being out in the surf..

 

[ByrdAle]

Is this software availible somewhere?

 

[Jonathon]

Is this software availible somewhere?

Hey mate,
Not really. It runs a SLC500 plc and a PC running a Visual Basic Scada control so the software Iv'e written is useless without all the same PLC setup.

Cheers
Jonathon

 

[Jonathon]

Hey guys,
Got some new stuff for you to check out.

This is my online interface for everyone to keep track of what my brewery is up to, still in test so please let me know what you think or any ideas. Data will only be live if i'm in the brewery and it is ONLINE otherwise what you see will be test data from the server.

LINK TO HMI

Cheers
Jono

 

[TriangleIL]

Hey guys,
Got some new stuff for you to check out.

This is my online interface for everyone to keep track of what my brewery is up to, still in test so please let me know what you think or any ideas. Data will only be live if i'm in the brewery and it is ONLINE otherwise what you see will be test data from the server.

LINK TO HMI

Cheers
Jono

This HMI is very nice. Would love to see it working during a brew day. Great job.

 

[Jonathon]

This HMI is very nice. Would love to see it working during a brew day. Great job.

Cheers mate, hopefully won't be long and it will be online.

 

[joety]

Bump, wow. Looking forward to seeing it in action. Is there a newer thread started?

 

[limulus]

Hello Jonathon,
It's good to see you back at it. Stay out of the water down there for a while. I've seen some horrific news about sharks down there this week. It's winter there anyway

 

[joety]

Jonathan, if you are still in the market for fermenters, check out this guy: http://conical-fermenter.com/products/2-bbl-systems/

I have one of his and love it. Of course, mine is a bit smaller.