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[John Reinhardt]

This is my mobile Graifather brew cart. Completely self-contained. Brewing on one side and fermenting on the other. The cooling coils are inside the door under the sparge tank.

 

[DanB_cdnbev]

I designed these two Custom Beasts for Steamboat Springs, which I formally submit as "Sculptures". The upper Unit I have named "The Bow-Tie" The Lower I call the Dragonfly. The lower is technically 3 Towers, but they were sized and designed to work together, within the specific design of the particular bar. Notice that the different tiers of the faucets are staggered, to allow for handles to fall between faucets, and drips to fall through, as well. These were installed in Steamboat Springs, CO, at a Ski Resort.
The Shells are 4"
Cheers

 

[day_trippr]

Waiting for the pic with all the tap handles mounted...

 

[cyberbackpacker]

These were installed in Steamboat Springs, CO, at a Ski Resort.

These pics cannot be too recent, as their is a decent amount of snow on the ground!!!

 

[501irishred]

This is my mobile Graifather brew cart. Completely self-contained. Brewing on one side and fermenting on the other.

Nice use of space! What’s the story with the ice chest with lines out the top? Temp control?

 

[jturman35]

Second pic beer is rolled next to conical when ready to transfer. I brew under my opened garage door which buffers the steam.

 

[BFD_BrewGeek]

BFD Brewhaus update: The Westward migration from Manchester, Mo to Point Richmond, CA is done.

 

[liquidlunch]

 

[scott.howell.9022]

Here is an update of my brewhouse. I am running a 50amp spa panel to a custom double Blichmann brew commanders build, wall mounted.
Kinda DIY 1/2 barrel system.
My cold side of the brewery has an SS Brewtech glycol chiller cooling 2 Spike cf10 fermenters with the stainless chiller coils. I'm controlling the ferment temp process with an inkbird controller based build.
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[scott.howell.9022]

These didn't seem to upload last time I tried

 

[Brewbuzzard]

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Very nice

 

[John Scheffler]

This is my system, been tweaking for a few years.

Hybrid RIMS system.

Fire to hit temp and boil. Electric during recirculation.

I designed it have a very small foot print. 3x2 ft

 

[John Scheffler]

Couple more

 

[Brewbuzzard]

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Nice job. Have you noticed any cavitation with the pump and plumbing set up?

 

[John Scheffler]

With the false bottom installed in the brew kettle, it was catching some bubbles and got some slight cavitation. The bigger problem was the false bottom caught everything and pretty much clogged it. I was scraping with my paddle to clear a path for a while.

The false bottom has been removed from the kettle, now the grain bed filters like it is supposed to. No more issues.

 

[augiedoggy]

With the false bottom installed in the brew kettle, it was catching some bubbles and got some slight cavitation. The bigger problem was the false bottom caught everything and pretty much clogged it. I was scraping with my paddle to clear a path for a while.

The false bottom has been removed from the kettle, now the grain bed filters like it is supposed to. No more issues.

sounds like you might have been pumping too fast. those holes on the false bottom in the pic are standard size the FB was undersized but should not have plugged.

 

[John Scheffler]

You can't tell in the pic, there is a 30x30 SS mesh screen on top of the false bottom.

 

[John Scheffler]

This might you can probably see now

 

[augiedoggy]

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ah yes I see it now.. strangly though we used a large BIAB mesh that was as fine if not finer over our old false bottom until we got our new one made. we had no issues but that was a 29" diameter fb and a 3 bbl MT and we recirculated at about 4 gpm

 

[John Scheffler]

I have bag in my mash ton also. Mostly because it is easier to get all the grain out. But it's there. I realized that I wasn't using my grain bed as a filter and was trapping everything in my kettle. Took out the false bottom in the kettle and it works great.

 

[Tbagger]

It’s not much, but it was my dads and got passed down to me. It’s been a reliable brewery for close to 20 years between the two of us.

 

[Gorgeous George]

My little hide away.

 

[StroudCreek]

My home brewery with my 3 tier stand

 

[Genuine]

Looks awesome dude!

 

[crane]

Work in Progress

 

[Deadalus]

Here's my rig, currently mobile, I have a spot picked out for it in the garage but I am still working on clearing other stuff out. Then I need to put in an exhaust hood.

 

[501irishred]

Here's my rig, currently mobile, I have a spot picked out for it in the garage but I am still working on clearing other stuff out. Then I need to put in an exhaust hood.

Nice! You really put your back into those keggles!

 

[Daniel_Colaco]

Here's my rig, currently mobile, I have a spot picked out for it in the garage but I am still working on clearing other stuff out. Then I need to put in an exhaust hood.

Those are some damn fine looking keggles you've got there...

 

[day_trippr]

Whoa! Major blingage!
Someone's gonna need to wear dark glasses to run that rig
It deserves a much splashier presentation here, if I may...

Cheers! (And Happy Brewing! )

 

[Deadalus]

Nice! You really bout your back into those keggles!

Yes about 6-8 hours each.

Those are some damn fine looking keggles you've got there...

Thanks!

Whoa! Major blingage!
Someone's gonna need to wear dark glasses to run that rig
It deserves a much splashier presentation here, if I may...

Cheers! (And Happy Brewing! )

Hey thanks, I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong on the image insert. I had a timer about to go off. Sure makes that porter I was brewing look black.

 

[thworted]

Work in Progress

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Very slick. I have a bunch of questions, but I'll start with one: where did you get the tubing?

 

[thworted]

Here's mine. I wanted a compact 2-burner rig for 10 gal batches that I could roll out into my outside stairwell on brew day. The long runs of silicone tubing are somewhat of a pain, hoping to do some rigid piping to reduce the silicone, when I get around to it.

 

[crane]

Very slick. I have a bunch of questions, but I'll start with one: where did you get the tubing?

Check out my build thread for details.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/index.php?threads/674636/

 

[thworted]

Check out my build thread for details.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/index.php?threads/674636/

oh wow, excuse me while I geek out on that for a while.

 

[Ironedge]

This was a fun project and pulled a lot of the information and design from the pages of this forum.


Cheers

 

[Ohkee]

Here's my rig, currently mobile, I have a spot picked out for it in the garage but I am still working on clearing other stuff out. Then I need to put in an exhaust hood.

Whats the use of the keg stem sticking out the top of the keggles? A handle to lift the top?

 

[Deadalus]

Whats the use of the keg stem sticking out the top of the keggles? A handle to lift the top?

Yes. I bought the keggles from another brewer and he had taken the circular keg top and attached the stem to form a lid. There are four SS washers attached to the edge to keep it from falling in. He also gave me parts for the second lid which I assembled. I refit the keggles with SS fittings, converted them to electric, and shined them up.

 

[Sebastian Weetabix]

This is my brewing setup.
PicoBrew Pro
PicoBrew Model C
FastFerment 3 gallon conical

Who knew Huskey toolboxes were so prominent in home brewing?

 

[awoitte]

Got the garage floor done this fall.

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What type of board/shelving is that you have against your walls?

 

[SEndorf]

What type of board/shelving is that you have against your walls?

It's prefinished slatwall I found at Menards at a good price.