Show Me Your Wood Brew Sculpture/Rig

[jEld]

Just finished up my wooden brew rig last night. The only thing it cost me was $35 for the HLT burner. I received the kegs and weldless bulkheads for Christmas. I was hoping to go with a single tier metal rig, but I couldn't beat the cost of my wood rig! Everything else was gathered from around the house and father in law's barn. Hopefully the 9 month old will want to help me brew tomorrow!

 

[Brandx40]

Hey jELD,
Looks good! Clean and straight forward. What kind of material do you have under the burners?

 

[jEld]

Hey jELD,
Looks good! Clean and straight forward. What kind of material do you have under the burners?

Thanks...worked very well today, despite the frozen hose for the wort chiller. Under the burners I have some 1/8" thick aluminum sheets with holes...found them laying around in a trash pile...yeah I'm that guy!

 

[Brandx40]

Thanks...worked very well today, despite the frozen hose for the wort chiller. Under the burners I have some 1/8" thick aluminum sheets with holes...found them laying around in a trash pile...yeah I'm that guy!

Great find! At least in this case you should be proud to be "That Guy"

 

[krduckman]

Mine

 

[Cbaddad]

Where are you guys finding the casters for your rigs at a decent price?

Looking to build one shortly and the prices I am finding are insane.
Thanks in advance!

 

[bd2xu]

Just finished up my wooden brew rig last night. The only thing it cost me was $35 for the HLT burner. I received the kegs and weldless bulkheads for Christmas. I was hoping to go with a single tier metal rig, but I couldn't beat the cost of my wood rig! Everything else was gathered from around the house and father in law's barn. Hopefully the 9 month old will want to help me brew tomorrow!

An sq14 for $35? Good deal, where?

 

[Ddubduder]

Where are you guys finding the casters for your rigs at a decent price?

I'm still in the process of building mine so no pics yet but I found my casters at a local flea market. There is almost always one shop that sells bolts and widgets, look there. I got dual lock casters for 5 bucks each, would have been 60 on Amazon and those were smaller than the ones I got so probably even more if I found the same ones.

 

[jEld]

An sq14 for $35? Good deal, where?

Amazon had them a few weeks ago for around $42 and I had some leftover "shop with points" from my credit card, putting it at $35 for me.

 

[LKHA]

carful with the burners on there they might be able to slide just a maybe

 

[Rcole]

Where are you guys finding the casters for your rigs at a decent price?

Looking to build one shortly and the prices I am finding are insane.
Thanks in advance!

Harbor Freight Tools has good size casters for a reasonable price, and they run sales pretty frequently. I think I paid $5 each.

 

[Cbaddad]

Thanks!

 

[lakedawgs]

Harbor Freight has a small furniture dolly, 1000# rating. I bought one of those, unbolted the casters and put them on my stand, sturdy and very cheap.
http://www.harborfreight.com/movers-dolly-93888.html

 

[Jerico]

This is my first post but I have been lurking this site for some time getting ideas for my brew rig. I started out with a Mr. Beer and just wanted to upgrade a little and get into AG but once I started I couldn't stop. This site sucks you in and makes you do things you didn't set out to do. It took me a year to build between my family, school and working out of town but it is done and will brew its first batch in the next couple days. Thanks to all the great builds out there for the ideas and motivation

That is an amazing build. You have some skills.

 

[BFD_BrewGeek]

BFD Brewhaus v2.0 - Single level platform for three Blichmann floor LP burners and two March 815 pumps (HLT kettle and third burner future)...gas manifold, NG conversion and HLT/MLT temperature control automation are future upgrades...

 

[kerschup]

That is an amazing build. You have some skills.

Thanks! I really only took ideas i found here and compiled them into my own brew rig. Here is a thread with some more pictures and details if you are interested

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/atypical-wood-brew-stand-389789/

 

[Nashbrewer]

What are the dimensions of the BFD Brewhaus v2.0?

 

[BFD_BrewGeek]

What are the dimensions of the BFD Brewhaus v2.0?

~6' wide, 2' deep and 1' off of the ground, not including the height of the burners...

 

[Nashbrewer]

Thanks!

 

[Panagiotis]

IKEA sells brew stands??

Actually it does!!!

 

[beejayud]

I just recently put together this sculpture...
Old entertainment center laying around....
From the pictures you can see the development... the last picture is my first batch with it (extract), Going to move into all grain shortly... putting the final touches on the equipment

 

[ccostel]

Just finished mine but haven't stained or sealed it yet. Made from cedar and has 2 of the Bayou Classic 16 inch burners.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Very nice classic woodie! I like the large carriage bolts...just beautiful...cant wat to see it stained...gonna look gorgeous!

 

[Covert]

If this question is already answered, my apologies but I didn't see it anywhere. I see a lot of these wooden rigs with propane burners sitting on them and no scorching of the wood. Is there no danger of setting it on fire when you are using propane burners on a wooden stand?

 

[mikebering]

Here is my wood stand/brew rig so far
Still a bit to do but it is getting close now!
Few things I would have done differently along the way but its getting there

 

[LandoLincoln]

If this question is already answered, my apologies but I didn't see it anywhere. I see a lot of these wooden rigs with propane burners sitting on them and no scorching of the wood. Is there no danger of setting it on fire when you are using propane burners on a wooden stand?

It takes quite a bit of heat to get wood to burning temps. Over 600°F, if I recall correctly.

That said, some simple precautions can be taken. On my brew stand, I have some 1/2" concrete backer board sheets where my propane burners stand. These sheets are normally used for construction where ceramic tiles will be used. The boards are pretty cheap and are readily available at hardware stores.

Other people take some sheet metal and bend them around the pieces of wood that are close to the sources of heat. That will work fine to deflect the heat.

 

[Namako]

I have a 2mm-thick aluminum heat shield (bent into a 20" square, and 6" tall)bolted 1.5 inches away from the wood that wraps around each of the two Hurricane burners mounted in my stand. The wood right behind the heat shield doesn't even get warm. Remember, heat rises - it really doesn't want to go laterally unless it has some serious pressure behind it, and our propane burners don't generate that kind of pressure.

 

[Nates2k1]

First post on here. Been lurking for quite a while. Here is my wood brew sculpture in progress. It is going to be a RIMS system, and I have yet to install the flashing around the burners, pumps, etc.

 

[ccostel]

I have about an inch of space between the outside of my burner and the wood. Even with a 16 gallon flat bottom pot on the burner, the wood doesn't get above warm. I don't crank the burner to the extreme though.

 

[shataway]

Note the scorching on the wood and the high tech ceramic floor tile countermeasure.