Show Me Your Wood Brew Sculpture/Rig

[Garyr2973]

 

[mkenitzer]

I see a lot of people using kegs for there rigs... how...if there is a way... to obtain such items??

 

[Garyr2973]

You can find them the right way (buy from somewhere that obtained the kegs legally) or the wrong way which is usually how people get them (Craigslist, etc. ). If people just put a deposit down and never return the keg it's still property of the brewery. The breweries will decommission the kegs eventually though and sometimes will sell to places that will then resell them.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

You can find them the right way (buy from somewhere that obtained the kegs legally) or the wrong way which is usually how people get them (Craigslist, etc. ). If people just put a deposit down and never return the keg it's still property of the brewery. The breweries will decommission the kegs eventually though and sometimes will sell to places that will then resell them.

True, but when that happens someone got charged $300 by the brewery or whatever the fee is for not returning a keg. So its not like the breweries or bars are losing money right?

 

[Garyr2973]

I've never seen anyone put that amount down as a deposit on a keg. It's usually like $60-$80 which would not pay for that keg.

 

[BroStefan]

True, but when that happens someone got charged $300 by the brewery or whatever the fee is for not returning a keg. So its not like the breweries or bars are losing money right?

Well, perhaps someone does pay, but who? Not the person who ends up with the keg.

I got my officially decommissioned kegs from a beer distributor for around $60 each. You just have to ask around.

 

[mkenitzer]

Awesome. Thanks for the input!!! My search will begin!!!.... after a have a beer

 

[Ajgeo]

Here is my rig, the Electro-brew 2000. Wood two tier with a tippy dump mash tun and tippy dump boil kettle. 20 gallon HLT, 23 gallon MLT, and 30 gallon boil kettle. Electric system based on Kal's design.

 

[Cajun_McChicken]

My modular ghetto rig made from Ikea kitchen carts

 

[smiffbrewing]

Super rad rig man! ive been working on a similar rig, im totally stealing the tippy dump idea!

 

[JSahrle]

I've been working on a three tier with an adjacent dolly. I would make a few major changes if I built another one. Should be finished and will brew on Sunday.

 

[Thefirebuilds]

I await your feedback, HBT.

I present, Brewpocalypso:

http://imgur.com/a/n3zQ6




CLICK THE IMAGE FOR THE FULL ALBUM OF PICTURES.

 

[BroStefan]

I would make a few major changes if I built another one.

Such as?

 

[dieden187]

Here is my rig, the Electro-brew 2000. Wood two tier with a tippy dump mash tun and tippy dump boil kettle. 20 gallon HLT, 23 gallon MLT, and 30 gallon boil kettle. Electric system based on Kal's design.

That is simply beautiful!!!

 

[Rcole]

I await your feedback, HBT.

I present, Brewpocalypso:


CLICK THE IMAGE FOR THE FULL ALBUM OF PICTURES.

Looks good. I would be concerned about the instability of 50 lbs of propane hanging off the back, though. You might consider mounting just one tank underneath and splitting the supply with a Mr. Heater F271735 Y Female Adapter.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Looks good. I would be concerned about the instability of 50 lbs of propane hanging off the back, though. You might consider mounting just one tank underneath and splitting the supply with a Mr. Heater F271735 Y Female Adapter.



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Just guessing the weight of Brewpocalypso, I would think it would be fairly stable without any brewing vessels, and very stable with filled brewing vessels.

The stand has a fairly wide footprint front to back, perhaps 30", and looks rather heavy...the center of the propane bottles only looks to 6-8" off the back of the stand.

An easy test of stability would be to try and lift the front of the stand with full propane tanks, and unloaded stand to see how potentially tippy it is toward the rear..

 

[Tuckerl]

I've been trolling this thread for quite a while, getting ideas and making plans for my own stand. Its a work in progress and hope to have it done in the next week or so. I was going to wait to post pics until it was done but I'm getting excited about how it is coming out and wanted to reach out for any ideas.

I wanted a BIAB setup that I could wheel outside or at least to the edge of the garage depending on the weather. I wanted some storage space built in as well a a counter top to work from. Lastly, I wanted to have my grain mill built in.

Last night we finished up the structure with the help of my 5 year old. A good friend donated some really neat tile I will be installing tonight. Have to mount the mill and pump, do a little touch up with the stain, add some hooks for hanging things like hoses, mash spoons, ect...

Any comments or ideas?

 

[Ajgeo]

Super rad rig man! ive been working on a similar rig, im totally stealing the tippy dump idea!

Thanks! The tippy dump works great, it makes clean up a breeze.

That is simply beautiful!!!

Thanks! Tonight I am going to brew a fresh hop pale ale.

 

[user 103238]

Finally sat down over the last 2 days and made this. I will take it for an inaugural brew session tomorrow with an Oktoberfest. I will probably take more pictures of it "in action" tomorrow. I was looking for something simple, yet something that didn't take up a larger footprint than the brew stand I had been using.

 

[user 103238]

Here's a little better picture of it in action this morning. Definitely enjoying the use of the pump for fluid transfer. Found my grain might have been milled a touch too fine for my false bottom, it's being a bit finicky but should still work. Definitely looking forward to the addition of the RIMS system to maintain mash temps.

 

[user 103238]

Nope, wrong again - had my first stuck sparge!! Ended up having to transfer the end of the mash into my cooler and lauter from there.

Might need to trim up the end of my dip tube, and next time adjust the grain to be a little more coarse.

Found my grain might have been milled a touch too fine for my false bottom, it's being a bit finicky but should still work.

 

[macca05]

Hey all,
First time poster. Ive been long over this thread for a while now and over the last 2 weeks have been putting together my AG system. Been brewing for nearly 2 yrs now but mainly biab/extract brewing. Not really that exciting bt still produced a nice pale ale that ive stuck to for over a yr now. Its not finished yet. Im still waiting on my chugger pump to arrive and i still havent ordered a element for my hlt yet. Cant actually find one in shops or online. Cant wait to start brewing though.
Have made a sparge ring and the chiller(not finished yet) myself as to buy the chiller would have cost me about 100-150aus more than me making it. Plus i had left over copper for the sparge ring and about 2 metres left over. I made the chiller with 15m which i think is 45ft.
Any suggestions improvements would be a great help.

If the above link does not work the album is below
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2wjf41t3z0769xm/vvKlXEN64x

Cheers
Macca

 

[Ibrewaletx]

Not mine, but noticed it while checking out nano breweries, this is the 1/2 bbl Foggy Noggin brewery sculpture.

 

[mkenitzer]

Not mine, but noticed it while checking out nano breweries, this is the 1/2 bbl Foggy Noggin brewery sculpture.

I see alot of people using the yellow flex tube from BrassCraft. Which one is ok for LP and which ball valve do you guys use?. Just wondering because I have a balk valve but it only says 1/2 psi on it...

 

[SunyJim]

Here's my 10 Gallon setup
2 HD GOTT coolers, and a 15 Gallon brew pot.
The brew pot sits high enough that it flows down into the fermenter as well.
took me a day and a half of construction, but really happy with the result and I can use it as a shelf for all this brew gear in the garage.

Constructed out of:
8 of the 8ft 2x3s
left over 5/8 pressure treated deck wood (about 5 8ft long boards)
100 of 2.5 inch deck screws
100 1 5/8s deck screws to attach the decking.
16 bolts 4" long (to go through 2 of the 2x3s) with nuts and washers. **don't forget the boards are neither 2" nor 3" they are more like 1.5x2.5 or something
I used the remaining scraps of 2x3 4 pieces about 15" long to make diagonal braces inside the top and middle shelves. Maybe it's overkill but those coolers are heavy when full, and the wood was going to go to waste if I didn't use it.
I may add some concrete board or flashing under the burner, and between the burner and the propane tank, not sure it's needed.

 

[NewJerseyCowboy]

Built this Beauty, well lets be real and call it a Beast, in 4.5 hours of beer drinking, drilling screws, cutting wood fun the other night.

(The fridges on the right in the second picture are for homebrewing as well. Ones a fermentation chamber and the other houses 3 kegs... I might be a little addicted to homebrewing)

 

[beernut70]

Here's mine you have to love BIAB.

 

[Helly]

I await your feedback, HBT.

I present, Brewpocalypso:

http://imgur.com/a/n3zQ6

http://imgur.com/a/n3zQ6

CLICK THE IMAGE FOR THE FULL ALBUM OF PICTURES.

Very cool. How does the plate chiller work doing gravity fed? Are you going to add a pump at any point?

 

[JONATHANKORTZ]

been using this for a couple of brews now

 

[brewmcq]

I'm starting out in my new brewery BiaB.. if I decide to go with a 3v system, I'll just make another wheeled bench and screw 'em together.

My humble offering...