I would love a conical for the ease of harvesting yeast but I think the hassle of trying to control the temp with a odd shape would make it a winter use only.
I would still love one:rockin:
I've been brewing 10 Gallon batches for a while now and spliting the batches was getting to me, the extra step of evenly distributing wort and yeast was a one reason.
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That a picture from Stainless steel brewing, its on its way right now so I have not had a chance to use it. It is a 1/4" ss coil that fits through the 3" Tri-clamp ferule on the top of the more beer conical. It has a 1/2" coupling in it too, so I can attach a thermo well to. Im going to post more about it when I get it all up and running, hope fully in a week or two I'll be brewing with it.
You could use the 1/2" coupling for a spray ball too, for CIP.
daveb1 said:MaxOut.. what size are those?
Looks great!
Bsquared said:Thats what I was thinking too, but the threads don't go through to the inside, so I might have to get creative with the plumbing. When I get it Ill be able to figure it out better...
Resone #5 I got a conical...I'm a stainless steel junky!
MaxOut said:I started with 6.5 gallon buckets because I liked the ease of cleaning and they are easier to move around compared to a carboy style fermenter. I started brewing larger 1 bbl batches. Cleaning and sterilizing 6 buckets at a time was becoming a real pain. Same thing when it came time to dry hop or transfer to keg. This was the main factor that helped me decide to get conicals. I wanted to simplify the fermentation process and also do closed pressurized fermentation/transfers. I can also use them as brite tanks, secondary and carbonate in them. The conicals fit nice in separate True refrigerators and are efficient. I love the conicals but I will still use buckets for smaller batches and when I try new recipes. If I was doing strictly 6 gallon brews I would still be using just buckets. (Sorry blurry photo)
MaxOut said:I started with 6.5 gallon buckets because I liked the ease of cleaning and they are easier to move around compared to a carboy style fermenter. I started brewing larger 1 bbl batches. Cleaning and sterilizing 6 buckets at a time was becoming a real pain. Same thing when it came time to dry hop or transfer to keg. This was the main factor that helped me decide to get conicals. I wanted to simplify the fermentation process and also do closed pressurized fermentation/transfers. I can also use them as brite tanks, secondary and carbonate in them. The conicals fit nice in separate True refrigerators and are efficient. I love the conicals but I will still use buckets for smaller batches and when I try new recipes. If I was doing strictly 6 gallon brews I would still be using just buckets. (Sorry blurry photo)
Brewskii said:Dude! You never showed us where you put the conicals. Man, I hate you!
AussieBrewerInColorado said:holy crap, are you Jesus?
I started with 6.5 gallon buckets because I liked the ease of cleaning and they are easier to move around compared to a carboy style fermenter. I started brewing larger 1 bbl batches. Cleaning and sterilizing 6 buckets at a time was becoming a real pain. Same thing when it came time to dry hop or transfer to keg. This was the main factor that helped me decide to get conicals. I wanted to simplify the fermentation process and also do closed pressurized fermentation/transfers. I can also use them as brite tanks, secondary and carbonate in them. The conicals fit nice in separate True refrigerators and are efficient. I love the conicals but I will still use buckets for smaller batches and when I try new recipes. If I was doing strictly 6 gallon brews I would still be using just buckets. (Sorry blurry photo)
MaxOut said:The original idea to use a chiller changed coarse when I scored a couple True GDM-26 coolers on the cheap. I'm going to update my build thread when I get time to finish a few more things. This is a sneak preview of where the conicals ended up. I had a couple strings of self adhesive LED lights left over from another project and installed them in the doors of the True refrigerators. Less annoying than the fluorescent lights and more efficient too. I'm skinning the boxes with stainless to cover the Coke stickers and removing the front lighted signs in favor of some stainless MaxOut Brewing signs to give them a custom shiny look. I will update my original build threads when I'm done.
NewBrewB said:Please tell me the red light comes on if it is heating and the green light if chilling....and that a lighted digital display of "just right" comes on the rest of the time.......
Thats a hell of a setup. I would have to win the lottery twice fir my wife to let me do that haha
I don't know...I think fermenting in Sanke kegs is almost as good. I have two and they only set me back 100 bucks. The same set up would have been almost 1500 dollars. Sure I can't harvest yeast as cleanly but I can buy a lot of yeast with the 1400 dollars I saved.
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