HERMS with very little silicone tubing

[Bobby_M]

I tried CIP using the offset top 1.5 TC ports and the coils still in place but that didn't work well. I was using my Spike pump. Maybe with the coil out and the sprayer centered or possibly a stronger pump. I'm still figuring out what is easiest/fastest but I think a soak and then just manually cleaning might be simplest. They aren't heavy empty. I have an Icemaster 100 so an open base no shelf would be needed for me and just measuring it, it is about 28.5" tall with the wheels. I'm tall so I may still do it, it would free up the chiller footprint and keep me from having to get down on the garage floor to do dumps. My back and hips certainly would appreciate it, thanks for the idea!

I don't think the Spike pump or the Riptide are aggressive enough to clean center mounted coils but it's good for the jacketed types. A friend of mine can clean the Spike with the coils using a 1/2HP brewery pump. It's so aggressive the fermenters shake.

 

[Gozie Boy]

Like the linear center drain. Drains are often underestimated in designs.

 

[Broken Crow]

How about someone that has never brewed?

OK...Trying to wrap my head around this... Is this one of those people I refer to as 'having more money than sense'?
I really hope you introduced them to this site so that when they decide in a few months that brewing is too much like work, they come on here to sell it on at a substantial loss to one of our more dedicated members.
That's a truly beautiful piece of work.

 

[shoengine]

OK...Trying to wrap my head around this... Is this one of those people I refer to as 'having more money than sense'?
I really hope you introduced them to this site so that when they decide in a few months that brewing is too much like work, they come on here to sell it on at a substantial loss to one of our more dedicated members.
That's a truly beautiful piece of work.

No, you have that all wrong. When you are walking a guest through the tour, you stop by the immaculately clean brew room, point out the brewery, answer a few questions, all while enjoying a commercial beer. Then move onto the solarium for a sit while pointing out the 6.5 baths (that are also unused).

 

[shoengine]

What is a sanitary sill?

Could be the wrong term, but it is a raised threshold that prevents water from leaving a wet area. Just need some relief from the hall so that when hosing out the room the water is contained. It is possible it is sloped signficantly and I can't see it.

 

[Broken Crow]

No, you have that all wrong. When you are walking a guest through the tour, you stop by the immaculately clean brew room, point out the brewery, answer a few questions, all while enjoying a commercial beer. Then move onto the solarium for a sit while pointing out the 6.5 baths (that are also unused).

OK, Gotcha! ..it's another damn flipper doing their part to destroy the prospect of home ownership by jacking up real-eastate prices and will probably sell to an airbnb operator idiot that doesn't understand it takes more than a weekend to make a batch of beer for the party that rents the place.
Did I get that right this time?
Maybe Bobby can hang on to the address for a few months and post in the wierd real-estate listings when it comes up or if it's in a state where a group of brewer's live, they can rent it periodically via airbnb and actually put this beautiful gear to work!

 

[mashdar]

Could be the wrong term, but it is a raised threshold that prevents water from leaving a wet area. Just need some relief from the hall so that when hosing out the room the water is contained. It is possible it is sloped signficantly and I can't see it.

My eye went to that as well. The diagonal cut in the tile indicates they've at least attempted to use a slope. Personally, I'd want a door so I could go nuts.

 

[Bobby_M]

OK...Trying to wrap my head around this... Is this one of those people I refer to as 'having more money than sense'?
I really hope you introduced them to this site so that when they decide in a few months that brewing is too much like work, they come on here to sell it on at a substantial loss to one of our more dedicated members.
That's a truly beautiful piece of work.

From what I understand, which may not be the full picture, the owner of this new construction house just got it in his head that he wanted a brewery in the house. He's a PHD in food science and ran a related company for 30 years so he's somewhat adjacent to brewing. I just never understood wanting a brewery if craft beer wasn't already his favorite beverage. Maybe he likes entertaining a lot of beer people.

I tried VERY hard to sell him on a sophisticated single vessel system but it didn't meet the aesthetic goal and he didn't want to make it more simple. I think my role in system builds is to understand the priority list and advise to the best of my ability right up until "shut up and take my money". And.... here we are.

 

[Bobby_M]

My eye went to that as well. The diagonal cut in the tile indicates they've at least attempted to use a slope. Personally, I'd want a door so I could go nuts.

The doors on both ends of the room are pocket doors. I suspect the lack of threshold was due to either not knowing it would be helpful or the fact that there were some ADA build considerations.

 

[Broken Crow]

From what I understand, which may not be the full picture, the owner of this new construction house just got it in his head that he wanted a brewery in the house. He's a PHD in food science and ran a related company for 30 years so he's somewhat adjacent to brewing. I just never understood wanting a brewery if craft beer wasn't already his favorite beverage. Maybe he likes entertaining a lot of beer people.

I tried VERY hard to sell him on a sophisticated single vessel system but it didn't meet the aesthetic goal and he didn't want to make it more simple. I think my role in system builds is to understand the priority list and advise to the best of my ability right up until "shut up and take my money". And.... here we are.

I cannot and will not argue with that, nor make fun of it... My own entry to homebrewing was finally spurred by one of my closest friends who learned it herself from her engineering prof step-dad and he was one of those guys with several outbuildings full of a ton of fun pastimes and cool/brilliant projects from collectable utility vehicles to homespun energy systems. I just hope he makes good use of it!

 

[mashdar]

I think my role in system builds is to understand the priority list and advise to the best of my ability right up until "shut up and take my money". And.... here we are.

"Consulting". Sometimes clients know just enough to not take good advice : )

 

[shoengine]

"Consulting". Sometimes clients know just enough to not take good advice : )

My wife used to work in the residential glass business. I learned that the customer is rarely right, they just merely pay. And sometimes demand a refund when their own measurements are inaccurate.