Joining the 1 barrel club

[BargainFittings]

Just picked up a new setup for our homebrew club.

Got the burners, pumps and will start cleaning up the stand and prep it for paint etc.

It will be fun to set it up for a brew day!

 

[TrainSafe]

Sweeeeeeet!

 

[TheFlyingBeer]

Alright! Where did you source the pots and stand?

 

[BargainFittings]

Alright! Where did you source the pots and stand?

A friend. Pays to make friends

 

[sils13]

so awesome i love it

 

[cfrazier77]

Very nice, I am sure that your club will be very happy with you over this!

 

[EarthBound]

A friend. Pays to make friends

Especially friends who are in love with my beer.

Nice score!

 

[annasdadhockey]

Welcome to the club.
What size kettles are those?

 

[BargainFittings]

55 or so. I've got to calibrate them still.

 

[worstbrewing]

What kinda burners?

 

[BargainFittings]

What kinda burners?

Banjo style burners. The stand has a supply pipe and valves fitted inside on the horizontal beam but I'll bypass it with new piping if there are any leaks.

Sand, paint, install some casters or wheels on the frame, and set up the valves and pickups for the tanks and it will be in service.

 

[TomRep]

My main question is where are you going to be purchasing any fittings you need?! j/k looks good Wayne!
Tom Reppert

 

[Dog House Brew]

I bought some stainless fittings from a guy on here. If you need pick-up tubes, ball valves, whirlpool fittings, etc.....I'll try to look him up. :cross:

Nice score! I sure wish I had built a single tier. Post a finished product K

 

[BargainFittings]

Rig sanded and painted

 

[BargainFittings]

System is up and ran it today. Tests went well

 

[chromados]

Man that looks awesome, cannot wait to hear how your first club brew goes. Would of loved to be there to see it.

Cheers
chroamdos

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Nice. 55's would be great. I have (3) 40's and it's a bit tight. Good luck with your first monster brew.

 

[BargainFittings]

Brewed our first batch on it yesterday. It went great.

Our first inaugural brew was a Belgian Pale Ale. I did a slight variation of Jamil's recipe. Boosted the malts up a bit so I could steal 5 gallons of the first running to do a side boil and made a belgian strong dark.

Picture of people waiting for their share of the wort:

 

[Seven]

That's awesome. How many gallons of wort did you produce with this setup?

 

[rack04]

Brewed our first batch on it yesterday. It went great.

Our first inaugural brew was a Belgian Pale Ale. I did a slight variation of Jamil's recipe. Boosted the malts up a bit so I could steal 5 gallons of the first running to do a side boil and made a belgian strong dark.

Picture of people waiting for their share of the wort:

It was a great brew day. Had lots of fun and the rig performed great. BTW, my share is bubbling way.

 

[BargainFittings]

That's awesome. How many gallons of wort did you produce with this setup?

We ended up with almost 9 shares so 45ish gallons plus the 5 gallons I pulled off the first runnings. The last pull looked like pea soup with all the hops!

 

[Seven]

And you were able to boil all of this with a banjo burner? That's pretty impressive.

 

[BargainFittings]

Yes. I installed the 40 psi regulators on the burners and kept the propane tanks fairly close to rig to keep the tanks from freezing up.

The high pressure banjo burners put out ALOT of btus.

We ended up having to gravity drain the mash to a bucket. I ran the burner as we did the sparge and as we added 3-4 gallons the burner would get the boil going again after a minute or so each time.

 

[BargainFittings]

Did our 2nd brew yesterday. ~45 gallons of SMaSH brew - 100 #s great western 2 row and 21 oz of Centennial hops.

Made a false bottom for the mash tun.

 

[Islandboy85]

What are you using as a fermenter?

 

[Dirty]

Does your buddy have 3 more tanks? We may be able to work out a great deal.

I have friends who love beer too.

Rock Chalk

Chris

 

[BargainFittings]

We split the beer out to members and they ferment at home with whatever yeast they choose.

 

[Islandboy85]

We split the beer out to members and they ferment at home with whatever yeast they choose.

Wow, I'll bet that takes a while to divide up a batch that large.

 

[BargainFittings]

Yeah it takes more than a few minutes to drain 45 gallons into separate fermenters.

 

[Huaco]

Nice looking rig man.

Cap & Hare in Fort Worth, Tx just did a club brew this morning and had 20 shares!!! Holy Smokes... thats a LOT of wort!