TANSTAAFB
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Amazing BK! I don't think I've got the patience to build something like that but it is beautiful...How did she do on the inaugural brew?
Amazing BK! I don't think I've got the patience to build something like that but it is beautiful...How did she do on the inaugural brew?
Excellent job BrewKaiser! Once you get her dialed in, it will be a joy to use. Beautiful rig you made yourself! Best of luck to you!
John
Here's our new setup. Out of curiosity, I would like to eventually get pumps instead of gravity feeding and then transistion into a HERMS or RIMS system. Does anyone know if I will be able to do this with my current cooler setup? I really don't want to spend money on stainless kettles (conical fermenters would be higher priority). My current setup is 15 gallon coolers and kettle, would prefer to spend money adding on, not replacing.
Yes you can definitely add to this with a rims style setup. A germs will require another vessel capable of taking heat.
What kind of coolers are those? I've searched for 15 gallon Coolers and never found one.
I started out with this View attachment 402375
Theee vessel mini E Hermes controlled by a STC-1000 and now to this:
2 vessels RIMS with no Sparge. Efficiency hasn't been affected and it's great brewing electric
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Here's a pic of mine. Built it about a year ago. Makes 20 gal batches.
Still have some work to do but almost done
I'm 190 pounds and to get the center post to seat in the base I had to stand on the top burner and beat it down with a maul before I cut the top off. It's pretty sturdy
@mitchard, any issues with mash filtration without a silicon edge to your barrier? I am upgrading my rig size and moving from cooler to a RIMS, was planning on using one of the 12v motors for RIMs and I have one of those filters, but am concerned with clogging lines...
@ desert sky.. now that's a heat exchanger...
cheers!
Did you use dock cleats for the keggle handle? Pretty clever idea.Similar to mine but mine is also for storage so the solid base.
Using the BK as the RIMS?
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