Just some large batch porn pics

The WHALES brew club brewed their second RIS batch this Saturday. This is just some Monday morning brew porn to smile about.

I'll take "Reasons to join a homebrew club that has their act together for $1200 Alex".


One of two 55 gallon HLT/BKs heating strike water.


100 GALLON MASH


For Scale:

Thats impressive. How long is the brew day ?

I bet this gives the words Brew Day a whole new meaning.

mmm... brew porn... fap fap fap. lol

The day before it's a couple hours of setup and milling (275 lbs of malt).

The brew day starts early lighting the burners on the strike water at about 7:30am.

If I recall, dough in at 9am (they were waiting for me to show up with the HERMS coil)

Sparge started at 10:30am after a short run up to 160F using the HERMS.

The boil is staggered so that the chilling can be staggered. I think BK#1 started boiling at about noon.

I don't know, no one took accurate notes on this batch that I know of but everything was in the fermenters, cleaned up, and packed in vehicles before 5pm.

It's getting shorter every time we use the system though. Since this was 70 gallons of 1.108 RIS and 20 gallons of 1.055 tailings (partigyle) we had more volume than usual. When we brew a more conservative batch, I'm pretty sure we could do it in less than 7 hours.

wowza, were those special made pots? or were you able to get them somewhere? thats mighty impressive!
do those 3 burners keep the boil going nicely?

100 GALLON MASH??

I'll be in my bunk.

Mike_M said:

I'll be in my bunk.

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OT: I love that show

On topic:

When you said 6 months in the bourbon barrel I was shocked! Where did you get a 55 gallon bourbon barrel? Also, if you don't mind me asking, how much are the dues you pay for this club? Looks like you have a good thing going, I might have to look into one.

Now, you're just bragging. It's not the size that's important.....

Another necro-thread for me today. Bobby- how do you chill down 100g of wort? For a beer with no late hops I'd not be that concerned but I don't feel like redoing most of my recipes for a big hopstand/whirlpool addition. My 3bbl system will make chilling a challenge.

I did a 6bbl (boil) brew at a local brewery and we used a counterflow chiller to cool all 170 gallons of wort during transfer to fermenter

Brazed plate HEX (plate chiller) or just a regular homebrew-style coil dealy?

We used a 30 plate long Duda Diesel just like the one on my own brewery and the one I sell. We bagged all the pellet hops.

tbone0n74 said:

mmm... brew porn... fap fap fap. lol

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Bobby_M said:

We used a 30 plate long Duda Diesel just like the one on my own brewery and the one I sell. We bagged all the pellet hops.

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Sweet- do you recirc back into the kettle to get the bulk temp down or go straight to the fermenters?

On this particular batch, the tap water was in the mid 50's so we were able to run the wort really fast to the fermenter. When it's warmer, we run it back to the kettle until it's running 110-120F at full bore, then throttle back and go to the fermenter.