Crazy yeast bag idea?

[hugenjapan]

What's the dimensions of this pot/tank?

22" dia. X 22" high without the cone.. I haven't made the cone yet but I'll figure out the measurements for a 60 degree cone

 

[kjackson82]

Your going to have some serious boil off so do a few test runs to figure out how much extra water you'll need to start with.

As for fermenting temp, I think I would put a coil in it from the get go. You don't want to rely on the most unreliable thing (weather) to maintain good fermenting temps. Especially when you start making big batches. I would think putting this much effort into it before you've even brewed a batch, that it would piss you off to have just "ok" beer rather than awesome beer due to bad fermenting temps and not being able to cool the wort in the given amount of time to avoid dms!

 

[hugenjapan]

Your going to have some serious boil off so do a few test runs to figure out how much extra water you'll need to start with. As for fermenting temp, I think I would put a coil in it from the get go. You don't want to rely on the most unreliable thing (weather) to maintain good fermenting temps. Especially when you start making big batches. I would think putting this much effort into it before you've even brewed a batch, that it would piss you off to have just "ok" beer rather than awesome beer due to bad fermenting temps and not being able to cool the wort in the given amount of time to avoid dms!

Good idea.. Should I make a coil or make a jacket around the tank for cold water to run through?

 

[kjackson82]

Both... Gives you options... Plus you gotta think about the fact that with such a large diameter that your coil isn't going to make a whole lot of contact in a 5 or 10 gallon batch in such a wide pot unless you design it a little differently.

 

[motleybrew]

This IS interesting. I like the inverting idea; really shows an original way of keeping materials to a minimum.

For the cooling, I saw something about a "double rib cage" design immersion chiller. That would be optimal for such a large container, I'd assume.

 

[hugenjapan]

I know it's taking me a long time but I'm back to it today after a long laser eye surgery recovery. Got the cone cut into a 42" x 42" square ready to circle shear then cut the chord (the pie section) out and roll it into a cone.. I'll take more pics along the way

 

[day_trippr]

For the cooling, if you can implement a jacket, that'd be the way to go, imo. No doubt that's what the big kids do with those fermenters your company is cranking out. No worries about how to plumb ins and outs, no worries about contaminating an entire batch because of some bit of crud that was stuck on an immersion chiller, and I'd imagine there'd be a lot more surface area in contact with the beer via a jacket than an IC could provide...

Cheers!

 

[hugenjapan]

Ya I'm making a jacket that just goes from top to the bottom on the tank. Not the cone though

 

[hugenjapan]

I also got a nice 3' section of 1/2" glass tubing for free since they cut it too short for any of the tanks at work.