Lucky_Chicken
Well-Known Member
Something like this ghetto drawing attempts to do display. So in short, inline fan to draw in steam from brew kettle. Steam in pipe condenses due to the cold water jacket and collects in bucket on the floor.
The things I don't know start with... 1. how much piping is needed to ensure say 80% condensation of steam? 2. Will the piping heat up from being over the kettle and need to have the cold water in the jacket pumped out throughout the brew session (I have an old washer pump that I could use to recirculate that runs on 120v)?
Not sure on those, but I think it may be worth a try.
In my situation where I currently have my brew rig I do not have an easy way to vent it outside. Surrounded by concrete block and no accessible windows (just a storm door).
I like that... let me know how it works... I would like to do something like that in my shop to keep from installing a perminate hood, this was a sugestion on how big brewerys do it also except they dump in a floor drain, have no fan, and the jacket is a cooling coil