Building a three tier brew structure, need your opinion!

[garrettryder]

Hey guys, i started brewing little over year ago, and I'm making the jump to all grain. I decided I want to make my own three-tier gravity fed brew structure, I have some rough ideas already but I want some input before I start fabricating. Currently I have 60 feet of 1 1/2 square tube 13 gauge steel, I'm planning on installing a burner on the top tier and the bottom tier and use a cooler for my mash tun in the center tier. I speced out mega pots from Northern Brewer for my height and width spec (15 gallon). I do not see myself brewing 15 gallons in one batch however, I would like to have the capacity to do a high gravity 10 gallon batch. I would love to have your input your ideas for any modifications I may need to make, before i start welding this structure up. Here's a rough sketch of my structure with a front view, and a side view. Thank you for your input it's greatly appreciated! Garrett

 

[Euphist]

Welcome to the forum!

The general plan sounds good, but I'm no expert either...I'm lucky to build a sandwich without it falling over.

Try reposting here, there should be some folks who can be of more help...

 

[WTWjr]

That looks like a pretty good start to me. I built one similar to your plan and I am very happy with it. Mine is 1" box steel. I sized it to the equipment I have, (42qt polarware pots and 10 gal cooler mashtun) keeping it as short as possible.

 

[Transamguy77]

I think you are headed in the right direction, I built something similar, I use 3 converted kegs and make 10 gallon batches. Even if you don't PLAN on that at the moment I thought the same till I had a few 5gal AG batches done and thought "how much longer to make 10?", for me it's only about an hour more.

This is mine and I can't be happier.