my basement brewroom build

[milldoggy]

Tom,
No worries. I am back on the 17th. Down in Melbourne right now. Beer cost soo much. System looks good. As for your chiller, did you try to throttle the flow back? On my CFC, I get 90ish on the first pass at full bore, but if I slow the wort flow, I can get 70ish.

 

[TomRep]

Melbourne, that must be horrible this time of year. What is it, 85-90? I have names for you but I can't use them, against forum rules! I did have it throttled back to just a bit more then a trickle. The recirculating part should actually work okay beings I'm looking at whirlpooling post boil anyway.
Tom

 

[milldoggy]

I whirlpool, but have been thinking about just going right into the carboy. I think I might try to whirlpool to get it down below 140 then into carboy. I have been using a drill and a red paint stirrer after chilling to get a huge vortex and it seems to work pretty good.

Ha it is a little cold in melbourne. Windy today. Heading out for the great ocean road. Our first attempt at driving on the other side of the road. Sydney was HOT. Pretty cool new years. Watched the fireworks from our hotels roof. Pretty amazing.

 

[TomRep]

New fan is ordered and should be here Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. looks like to brewing this weekend.

 

[Hoppopotomus]

Hey Tom....your system is turning our fantastic and is very helpful in my build. I slowed down over the holidays, but plan on getting my project back up and running soon. A quick question: Should I nix the bounce house blower idea that you came up with? I was going to go that route for my exhaust, because I have two of them laying around, but I would hate to have to re-do that portion of my system if I'm going to run into similar problems. What do you think? Your thoughts are appreciated.

 

[dallasdb]

I love the drip tray on the floor! Great idea for no spillage.

 

[TomRep]

Hoppopotomus-. Not sure what to think of the fan, honesty. I think the thing killed mine was the fact that I ran it on a dimmer switch. I fired up up lastnight with no switch and it still quits kinda like it's fried. I would say if you have a smaller one that you can run full throttle, give it a shot. It cost me about $40 to hook up the bounce house fan and won't cost me anything additionally besides the cost of the new fan.
Tom

 

[TomRep]

New fan is installed and first batch is happening today around noon. I will try to get some pictures of the fan setup. I'm hoping to do a live feed of the brew. If it happens, I will post a link here and probably a new thread in the general forum.
Tom

 

[Hoppopotomus]

Cant wait....have fun and good luck with that awesome new system!

 

[pinback]

New fan is installed and first batch is happening today around noon. I will try to get some pictures of the fan setup. I'm hoping to do a live feed of the brew. If it happens, I will post a link here and probably a new thread in the general forum.
Tom

This sounds awesome. I will watch if at all possible...

 

[TomRep]

Sorry for te late reply. Initial batch went quite well. Couple glitches here and there but it was mainly things I was doing, not problems with the system. All and all I'm very happy, especially since we were supposed to have a high of 27 today and I didn't have to put on a coat once! Oh and I never ran a webcast. Ustream wasn't working.
Tom

 

[milldoggy]

Finally back in the country and glad to see you are operational! How did those new pots work out? How much did you boil off? Any issues with sparging? Let me know when you are brewing next, would like to see it in action.

Oh, do you still have my 9/16th punch or did i get that back from you?

 

[TomRep]

sent you an email Mike.

 

[TomRep]

I know this is an old thread, but I made a cabinet for the brewery. Cabinet is to mainly hold stirplates and glassware (mason jars, flasks, etc). I mounted the doors lastnight and took these pictures. I have glass cut to put on the doors. I am currently looking for a vinyl shop in my area to make some stick on stencils of hops or something, then frosting the glass and having just the picture clear glass. Been a while since I have been brewing due to my life turning to s&%t for the past two years. Very happy to finally be back at it! Cheers!

 

[Boar Beer]

Looks great. Welcome back to our home brew world.
I can see an IPA in your future

 

[Hello]

Bumping the old thread allowed me to find it. Great build for sure.