Looks great. I had a couple of thoughts... none major but just some things you might want to think about.
- (more of a general question just 'cause I'm curious)... how are you filling your HLT and BK?
- in step 3, I think you're going to lose a ton of heat dumping your strike water into the MLT through a sparge arm. It's not necessarily a bad thing... just something you'll have to compensate for. If you calculate (or have Beersmith or something calculate) that you need 9 gallons of 164 degree strike water for a given mash temp once you add your grains... you're going to have to pump something like 169-170 degree water from the BK into the MLT to compensate for the lost temp in transfer. Again, not a problem... but something you should test out a couple of times before your first batch.
- in step 4... are you circulating your HLT as well?? Just my opinion but I don't think you'll need to do that at all. I hear you that you want a consistant temp in the HLT but I think that's overkill.
- in step 8... once you go through all of those connections and the heat exchanger coil in the HLT, I think you're going to lose too much pressure to really have an effective whirlpool.... I go very directly from the BK to my plate chiller and back and I had to purposely circumvent my chiller as I was losing too much pressure. I would think you'll have the same issue with that much distance from start to finish. Maybe not though... just trying to cover any and all bases before you build.
- (more of a general question just 'cause I'm curious)... how are you filling your HLT and BK?
- in step 3, I think you're going to lose a ton of heat dumping your strike water into the MLT through a sparge arm. It's not necessarily a bad thing... just something you'll have to compensate for. If you calculate (or have Beersmith or something calculate) that you need 9 gallons of 164 degree strike water for a given mash temp once you add your grains... you're going to have to pump something like 169-170 degree water from the BK into the MLT to compensate for the lost temp in transfer. Again, not a problem... but something you should test out a couple of times before your first batch.
- in step 4... are you circulating your HLT as well?? Just my opinion but I don't think you'll need to do that at all. I hear you that you want a consistant temp in the HLT but I think that's overkill.
- in step 8... once you go through all of those connections and the heat exchanger coil in the HLT, I think you're going to lose too much pressure to really have an effective whirlpool.... I go very directly from the BK to my plate chiller and back and I had to purposely circumvent my chiller as I was losing too much pressure. I would think you'll have the same issue with that much distance from start to finish. Maybe not though... just trying to cover any and all bases before you build.