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Finally got around to doing my first brew with my eHERMS system. Since November I had been converting my propane blichmann tower of power system over to an electric one. Ive got a 50A 3 vessel system similar to the electric brewery. Ive got a few challenges that came up:
1) People who use a steam condenser how do you avoid a boil over? I overfilled the BK so the level of the wort was touching the nut holding the bulkhead to the lid. This caused it to boil over so I had to drain about a gallon off.
2) when it was time to sanitize the plate chiller I had to crack the lid as I ran the boiling wort through it. I’m thinking it will be easier to install a whirlpool arm instead.
3) What do people do to CIP their BK and MT? I am hooking up a sink next to the brew table which will allow me to rinse the BK and pump into the sink. But today I was draining into a few buckets and ultimately carried both vessels outside to hose off.
All in all it was awesome compared to propane. I can’t wait to do it again.
1) People who use a steam condenser how do you avoid a boil over? I overfilled the BK so the level of the wort was touching the nut holding the bulkhead to the lid. This caused it to boil over so I had to drain about a gallon off.
2) when it was time to sanitize the plate chiller I had to crack the lid as I ran the boiling wort through it. I’m thinking it will be easier to install a whirlpool arm instead.
3) What do people do to CIP their BK and MT? I am hooking up a sink next to the brew table which will allow me to rinse the BK and pump into the sink. But today I was draining into a few buckets and ultimately carried both vessels outside to hose off.
All in all it was awesome compared to propane. I can’t wait to do it again.