Kill-A-Watt Brewery Build Compilation

[ChocolateMaltyBalls]

The more important question, did this thing make good beer?

 

[The Pol]

It's a Brutus 20 system. Pretty common setup.

 

[BadWolfBrewing]

Yep, search for brutus 20. I rocked a similar build for a while, before upgrading to a 3 vessel single tier herms. Too be honest,I sort of miss the simplicity.

Pol, didn't somebody buy that rig? Maybe they can comment on it's performance. The brutus is a tried and true design though, so I'm sure it works great.

 

[The Pol]

Yes, it sold for $5k, but he was never a member here. Cardiologist from Boston.

 

[jakeelee]

Hi again,

ok, read a lot about the Brutus.
The rims is used only to maintain the temp for about 60min, right?
Then i guess there is no sparge? or do you sparge and in that case how is the rig connected at that time?
I dont understand the last step when recirculating in both the mlt and hlt/kettle. Do you have some good explenation how and why this is done?

Again sorry for being a newbie

 

[The Pol]

Because you mash with say 1.5qt/lb, after the mash you recirc through the HLT which contains your sparge water and recirc between the two kettles for a period of time. Then, when the wort is homogenous, you send all of the wort to the HLT/Boil kettle.

Prior to the "sparge" the mash is recirculated through the 9000W RIMS heater. The entire system was controlled wirelessly through a PC.

The auto sparge arm was in the MLT in order to protect the system from overfilling the MLT during the recirc, so that the flow rates did not have to be precisely matched.

 

[The Pol]

The buyer is still using the rig to this day. He recently moved to Nashville and hit me up for help to get it connected to his home network.

 

[The Pol]

Yawn, I'm back

 

[humann_brewing]

Yawn, I'm back

welcome bck Pol!

 

[The Pol]

Hello again

 

[Hermit]

Yawn, I'm back

Suite!

 

[DrPhilGood]

Could a similar build work without the RIMS, and instead using the HEX in the HLT/BK as a HERMS? Dough in the MT then heat HLT to mash temps. Recirc the mash through the HEX in the HLT, once mash is finished you "sparge" with what you have in the HLT and recirc and then dump everything back into the BK/HLT.