"Brutus" Thread - Show us your Brutus!

[BeerCanuck]

Sweet looking rig willynilly
You should film the rigs maiden run with appropriately themed music playing in background; bow-chicka-wow-wow

Cheers;
BeerCanuck

 

[Irrenarzt]

I'll throw mine in as this is an appropriate place even though my pics were featured already in another thread.

Continuous hopping rocks

 

[willynilly]

Wow, very clean and obviously patterned after Pol's rig, but with a little more industrial look. Consider me jealous.

Dont be, I dont wish my building headaches on anyone.

 

[Pombe]

I'll throw mine in as this is an appropriate place even though my pics were featured already in another thread.

Nice choice of valve...Swagelok 60 Series

Continuous hopping rocks

I read about continuous hopping in Brewing up a Business. How does your machine work? What styles are you using it for?

 

[HIM_Tattoos]

I'll throw mine in as this is an appropriate place even though my pics were featured already in another thread.

I MUST see these thread!!! Search here I come!!!

 

[Yambor44]

I'm working on mine right now. Hopefully will post some pics soon! Here it is so far....

 

[Yambor44]

I'll throw mine in as this is an appropriate place even though my pics were featured already in another thread.

Wheres that thread at? NICE! I like your idea with the Therminator (bringing the back ports to the front). Would like to see more of that.

 

[HIM_Tattoos]

Wheres that thread at? NICE! I like your idea with the Therminator (bringing the back ports to the front). Would like to see more of that.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/brutus-10-byo-plans-changes-160898/

 

[Irrenarzt]

Nice choice of valve...Swagelok 60 Series




I read about continuous hopping in Brewing up a Business. How does your machine work? What styles are you using it for?

60 Series Swagelok is a fine choice so thanks for the prop. They are very smooth and easy to clean and don't have that silly lock that the chinese Blichmann valves have. I hate those locks.

As for the hopping device, it's pretty much only good for IPA's although you could use it on lower hopped beers by altering the angle of the tripod to reduce the rate of pellet drop. You could for instance add an ounce of late hops over the last 20 minutes of the boil instead of in more discrete increments. It works by spinning a teflon plate in the main tube at a rate of 1 RPM. The teflon plate has a small cutout at the edge to allow hop pellets to escape as the plate spins and reaches its lowest point. Depending on the angle, it usually dispenses about 6-12 hop pellets per minute and I've made a number of 60 Minute IPA clones and they all have tasted great.

 

[Irrenarzt]

Wheres that thread at? NICE! I like your idea with the Therminator (bringing the back ports to the front). Would like to see more of that.

The pic shows it all and it's pretty simple really. I added double elbows to bring the back side ports to the front. They flow well so there is no noticeable restriction. The hose thread on the water ports is adapted to my QD's and so no water hose is used. I chill exactly as Lonnie has it laid out in his BYO plans as that's the easiest way.

 

[jsocha389]

This is my LOW budget Brutus build, rolling stand was made from racking cross pieces and the burner support from a well used bed frame. Total cost for the rolling frame $35 bucks (wheels cost me $25) - kegs $90 - Auber controls $80 - Gas Solenoids $12 each - Burners $12 each - Plumbing around $230 and check out the low cost hose couplers that were around $2.30 each (Lowes) - Pumps $230 and a few other goodies = Total cost around $1100
Brewed 7 batches to date since Dec 09 and lovin it!!

 

[jsocha389]

low cost hose couplers, you ain't gonna get them cheaper then this!

 

[bendavanza]

Nice work jsocha, always good to hear about low cost clean builds.

 

[kal]

Looks great but there's a big alarm going off in my head when I view the picture above: You've got the PC fan installed on the top of the control box, right above a bunch of liquid connectors that are going to be connected/disconnected. They will drip. Either move the exhaust fan to the bottom or build a shroud of some sort.

Same with the two pumps. Some sort of deflective shroud should be used.

Long story short: You shouldn't be afraid to take a garden hose to the setup. IF you are, rethink how you have things sealed up.

Kal

 

[Optimal]

MLT INSIDE (button falsie, autosparge)

That's false advertising, your auto spare isn't SS. No more 100% SS rig, either way nice rig!

 

[jlandin]

Here's my brutus:

Full build thread here

--
Josh

 

[mmurray]

I like the compact storage idea!!! Stealing it for my build!

 

[BucksPA]

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TcBU_8j_4LxCG-9L1lsDifiE0dXNWtJnWuQGntu4bDY?feat=directlink

hmmm....HBT doesnt like picasa links?

 

[ClaudiusB]

Here is your setup

Cheers,
ClaudiusB

 

[BucksPA]

Here is your setup

Cheers,
ClaudiusB

heres my other. what am i doing wrong?

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mE9C8wYIvsg1eGmjNxXRifiE0dXNWtJnWuQGntu4bDY?feat=directlink

 

[GreenMonti]

heres my other. what am i doing wrong?

You need the img brackets.

Your posting the direct link. When I quoted you, I see you did the img brackets. But they are to the direct link. You want the JPG info.

 

[Displaced MassHole]

Here's mine, only took a year and a half to put together.

 

[willynilly]

Starting my 1BBL Brutus 10 build. I will post the photos here when able. Blichmann components throughout (55 gallon Blichs are not expensive considering their volume) and BCS controlled. Also, as with all of my breweries, fully electric. This one, 22000W.

 

[diatonic]

Starting my 1BBL Brutus 10 build. I will post the photos here when able. Blichmann components throughout (55 gallon Blichs are not expensive considering their volume) and BCS controlled. Also, as with all of my breweries, fully electric. This one, 22000W.

Why not start a build thread, then put a picture of the finished product here?

 

[BrewBeemer]

Starting my 1BBL Brutus 10 build. Also, as with all of my breweries, fully electric. This one, 22000W.

Damn bro, this would be 91.66 amps or a 125 amp breaker to feed this monster on 240 vo;t single phase!
Is this "22,000W" per kettle or the total of all three?
You brewing with 3 phase power?

 

[BigBobsBrews]

She's still a work in progress... and probably always will be.

 

[brewnickbrew]

I thought I would add a few to the hall of fame page as well.

My build progress can be see here: (Click on link)

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/my-brutus-finally-done-185716/

 

[AlchemyBrewing]

Wow! That is sweet!

 

[user 40839]

Here's Emily at work (apologies for the crappy phone pic):

Unfortunately, I've discovered that no matter how shiny and gorgeous they look when you finish the build, they never look like that again. Soot and discoloration immediately happens near the burners, and my weldless fittings drip wort no matter how much I @#$@# adjust them, leaving stalagmites of burned crap underneath the spigots and on top of the plate chiller. Grrr! (But she still works like a champ!!)

 

[knightbeer39]

She's a beauty though! I'm going to post mine tonight when I get home.