Show Your Electric Brew Day Pictures!

[poptarts]

Wow! So many different ways to skin the same cat! Poptarts - I LOVE your control box - is that a washing machine door?!

haha, its just a massive control panel that everyone in my build thread decided needed a window. Link to thread is in sig if you want to see how everything is made.

 

[milldoggy]

For what it's worth, 95% of the beers I brew on my HERMS setup are single infusion mashes.


Kal

Built my Kal clone in 2011. 99% single infusion. The beauty is the set and forget it for the temp. Mash out is around 20 minutes, but I rarely do it anymore.

 

[dyqik]

This is my first attempt at brewing fully electric in the basement. I'm in the middle of mashing with the 10 gal cooler and RIMS tube, and heating sparge water in the electric kettle.

This is a very budget temporary build, so I've just built a kettle boil controller based on the Still Dragon kit, fitted a weldless triclover flange to my Bayou Classic kettle and installed one of Bobby's ripple elements. I'm kind of lucky, in that my designated brewing area already had a 30A 240V 4-wire dryer socket, a dedicated 15A circuit and a dedicated 20A circuit. 1 GFCI breaker and 2 GFCI outlets, and it's ready for brewing. Still need to get the utility sink plumbed in, but that's a an $800 job (and MA law requires a licensed pro do it).

 

[Anyhowe]

Here's some from my most recent brew done on my all electric setup: A German Pilsner (batch #195). Recipe here.

The malt (I love this stuff):

Strike water at temperature, just about the mash in:

Measuring out salt additions of gypsum, calcium chloride, and Epsom salt:

12 gallons of the finished German Pilsner chilling down to ~48F in Danby 45 bottle wine fridges used as fermenting fridges:

10 days in and fermentation is nearly complete so the temperature is raised ~10F to start the diacetyl rest until fermentation is done (3-7 days):

Fermentation done. Beer is racked into CO2 purged 5 gallon glass carboys. Gelatin added to clarify, then kegged ~2 days later:

Beer's now been in the conditioning fridge at ~32F for a week now. I'll leave it for a good month or two and then it should be perfect and look like the beer the recipe was modelled after:

Kal

I feel so unworthy.

 

[jcav]

Budget or not that is a very slick little rig you got there. It looks like a very effective way to go electric on a budget. Good job dyqik! Looks great!

John

 

[JonyMac]

Brewing a Citra Double IPA:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/959731/Brewery/Pickup%20Tube/IMG_2479.m4v

 

[kal]

My last brew day pics and videos (brewed Electric Hop Candy Jr - a New England style Pale Ale):


VIDEO: Making the yeast starter during one of the experimental batches (part 1: boiling water).


VIDEO: Making the yeast starter during one of the experimental batches (part 2: pitching yeast).


VIDEO: Making the yeast starter during one of the experimental batches (part 3: fermentation done).


VIDEO: Prepping to the brew day the night before.


VIDEO: Brew day!

Hops after active fermentation. Hops are added at high krausen to aid in biotransformation (basically a flavour 'unlocking' of hop glycosides that we don't normally taste in aromatic/flavour compound).

Electric Hop Candy Jr, the sessionable version of my New England style IPA.

Sunset and pints of Electric Hop Candy Jr.

Kal

 

[tofuguy]

Reviving an old thread! NEIPA Brew Day!!

Trying my best not to get a stuck sparge since I used a LHBS's Milk with an adjustable gap setting.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

Man, there's some brewing eye candy in this thread. Holy crap. My dream system isn't even as cool as some of the stuff in this thread!

Sure makes my patchwork cooler MLT rig in my garage look like a joke. Fortunately (as we all know), you can still make great beer on a simple rig. I will definitely be going electric sometime over the next year.

 

[oceanic_brew]

Finally got everything geared up!

 

[hunter306]

I downsized! It was a great choice for me:

 

[Blazinlow86]

American light lager I just attempted. I'm not a light lager drinker but wanted to see if I could pull it off. Cheers

 

[xxmetalhead89xx]

Reviving an old thread! NEIPA Brew Day!!

Trying my best not to get a stuck sparge since I used a LHBS's Milk with an adjustable gap setting.

Does the heat affect that cutting board you have it sitting on? I have an old metal work bench that needs a new top and was thinking of getting a butcher block top, I just don’t know if it will stand up to the heat.

And here’s my current setup, was brewing a Hefeweizen. It’s very similar to the spikes buy once cry once, but using hosehead as my controller.

 

[tofuguy]

Does the heat affect that cutting board you have it sitting on? I have an old metal work bench that needs a new top and was thinking of getting a butcher block top, I just don’t know if it will stand up to the heat.

And here’s my current setup, was brewing a Hefeweizen. It’s very similar to the spikes buy once cry once, but using hosehead as my controller. View attachment 562174

No issues at all. 1 year of use.

 

[MrBaloo]

I am in the process of building something to brag about.. you guys are really inspiring.

 

[MadGus]

Recent Red IPA brew day. Kal clone setup.

 

[kal]

Brewing electric!

Kal

 

[6Tap]

Mashing Electric [emoji298]️ APA today

 

[milldoggy]

Recent Red IPA brew day. Kal clone setup.

What were you watching? Dancing with the Stars is not proper tv for brewing

 

[Drumminguy81]

Dipa for my first brew day at my new Diggs. Super excited to finally have everything up and running again after a 4 month moving hiatus.

 

[sillbeer]

Thanks for the idea on the fermentation chambers Kal. I just picked up two 45 bottle win coolers The temperature range is 41-68 degrees. They were $150 each local to me. Brew panel is almost done. Should be finished up in a week or two and I'll be set to start brewing again.

 

[kal]

Nice! Good luck on getting the brewery all set up and running!

Kal

 

[GParkins]

I just christened the system I've been planning and building for the last 8 months or so. I used a little more automation than necessary, but I'm happy with the results. It's a ½-bbl 3-kettle HERMS system coupled with a home-built ferm chamber. I brewed a batch of an oatmeal stout recipe that I've had good success with on a keggle/propane burner/cooler mash tun. I hit my numbers on the nose with the new rig, which is something I've not been able to do to date.