Budzu
Well-Known Member
I loved JKarp's countertop brewery so much I had to make my own! Now my friends want one too.
This is all based on the familiar design of pump and CFC in a bucket. I recirculate the full mash volume throughout the mash, usually step mashing by using the kettle as a heat source. The temp of the wort is kept even in the kettle by use of a stir plate on a low 5v power supply. The stir plate was built very thin, between two bamboo cutting boards and some 1x2" pine. The single pump transfers wort from the bottom of the kettle up to the top of the mash, turned on and off by a small SS adjustable float switch arm in the kettle.
This gives me incredible step mashing times and a very effective mashout. All resulting in 75% efficiency on the first and only try so far (1.069 gravity).
I can put 4 gallons into my 1/6 bbl sankeys after knockout. The 25' cfc did a wonderful job of closed-circuit cooling and left AWESOME hop aroma in my IPA test batch, made with Zythos hops.
So here's the pics, and cheers and thank you to JKarp for his awesome idea!
cheers buddies
This is all based on the familiar design of pump and CFC in a bucket. I recirculate the full mash volume throughout the mash, usually step mashing by using the kettle as a heat source. The temp of the wort is kept even in the kettle by use of a stir plate on a low 5v power supply. The stir plate was built very thin, between two bamboo cutting boards and some 1x2" pine. The single pump transfers wort from the bottom of the kettle up to the top of the mash, turned on and off by a small SS adjustable float switch arm in the kettle.
This gives me incredible step mashing times and a very effective mashout. All resulting in 75% efficiency on the first and only try so far (1.069 gravity).
I can put 4 gallons into my 1/6 bbl sankeys after knockout. The 25' cfc did a wonderful job of closed-circuit cooling and left AWESOME hop aroma in my IPA test batch, made with Zythos hops.
So here's the pics, and cheers and thank you to JKarp for his awesome idea!
cheers buddies