My (Father's) Brutus Build

[kman6234]

I've been brewing seriously now for over two years and like a lot of you after a while I got that itch to upgrade my setup. Not being an overly handy person I was always apprehensive about starting to build a more complicated system. (No experience with welding, gas plumping or electric ect)

Well long story short my Father has really taken a liking to my beer and offered to build me a brew stand. Fortunately for me my father has amazing DIY skills. The brutus style system was just finished this week so I'm just going to post some pics on the build....

 

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Here's some of the stand being welded together ....

 

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Coming together...

 

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One more...

 

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Action shot ....

 

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With the pump mounts and heat shields ...

 

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Mounting the banjo burners...

 

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Here's all the burners mounted...

 

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We went with a gas manifold over the gas beam....

 

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Hooking up the gas to the burners...

 

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Pilot and thermocouple pic...

 

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Wiring up the control panel...

 

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Control panel finished...

 

[mjdonnelly68]

Very nice.

Your dad is an artist and you are a lucky man.

 

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Pumps mounted...

 

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Pretty much done... Just needs paint...

 

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All painted up... I really like the metallic brown color

 

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One last pic...

 

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I haven't gotten a chance to brew on it yet because I still need to buy the kettles and cam-locks but I hope to be brewing on this sometime next month. For the chiller I decided to go with the 50' ft super chiller with recirculation from morebeer as opposed to the terminator like Lonnie's original brutus.

 

[hoppedup75]

NICE NICE build!

 

[kman6234]

Very nice.

Your dad is an artist and you are a lucky man.

Thanks he certainly is and my family is very luck to have him! I plan on repaying his hard work by keeping his kegerator stocked with beer!

 

[pumpkinman2012]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BradleyBrew]

Jealousy is the only thing running through my veins right now

Looks great...some day over the rainbow for me!

 

[wilserbrewer]

Fortunately for me my father has amazing DYI skills.

Very nice work! When I read the above line, I thought amazing is a relative term...let's just say I was amazed! Your dad seems the type that would tear something apart and redo it if not 100% satisfied...persistent as hell I'd imagine.

You can't get results like that with a "good enough" attitude! Cheers!

 

[GoodDogShelby]

Very nice. Okay, I'll bite. What is with the Bison head?

 

[kman6234]

Very nice. Okay, I'll bite. What is with the Bison head?

Haha I figured someone would ask about the bison. It belonged to my grandfather. My dad wanted to put a hook or piece of metal at the top of the control panel to hang the wires and the probes from so he figured he'd just put the bison on top.

 

[tracyk]

Wow, I need a Dad like that! Nice build.

 

[RickH]

Amazing work!

 

[RocketBrewer]

Very nice! Can't wait to hear how it works for you. Great way to spend quality time with your dad too!

 

[ryan_george]

Nice build! That's the kind of father I aspire to be one day.

 

[Yellowirenut]

looks very good...nice skills.
why a separate transformer for each gas valve?

 

[kman6234]

looks very good...nice skills.
why a separate transformer for each gas valve?

We weren't sure if 1 transformer would have handled all three valves so we just used a separate one for each just to be safe.

 

[Hello]

Amazing build. Your dad has skills.

 

[jcav]

Excellent build, you and your dad should be proud! Congrats and happy brewing!

John