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Get you brew on!! Here is my system, 2nd calibration is tomorrow! Plenty of room for pumps.. This is not showing the plate chiller mount and the hopback mount.

Very very very nice!

Coming along... just put away several more hundred $$$ if you decide to build something similar.. but well worth it.... well worth it. no regrets thus far!

Your setup looks 1000x more enjoyable to brew on than my current apartment stove-top setup. I need to start saving up for more professional brew system. What is/was your inaugural brew on your new system?

Afterlab wrote:Your setup looks 1000x more enjoyable to brew on than my current apartment stove-top setup. I need to start saving up for more professional brew system. What is/was your inaugural brew on your new system?

We have been there, just got tired of brewing 5 gallon of beer, save more money in the long run, also got tired of picking up heavy kettles, I am a IPA guy, so added the Hoprocket and the plate chiller, the biggest focus I put into was recirculating the wort, and saying away from using plastic. Welding the caster mounts today to make it easier. But looking forward to breaking it in with a Vanilla Porter!

Nice job. One stupid question; the burners appear to be very low compared to the bottom of the keggles. Any reason why? I just want to see you capture all the heat you can and not put it into warming the outside air.

Kbar wrote:Nice job. One stupid question; the burners appear to be very low compared to the bottom of the keggles. Any reason why? I just want to see you capture all the heat you can and not put it into warming the outside air.

No such thing as a stupid question, This is my first brewing system, the reason the burners are low is because of the heat being put out of them, the BK is 160,000 Btu output, and the MT and HLT is 100,000 Btu, I fired them up last week and found a crack in my BK burner, so replacing it with the same one, but they run hot, really hot. I am running a test on it next week with PBW solution, I really don't want the MT and the HLT burners too hot, for I am only using them to achieve my Sparging temp, and I would like to control the heat to the MT without over doing it "saving gas". The BK burner I might have to move up maybe 1 inch, but I will know my boiling speed next week. After achieving the "blue flame" height was added 2 1/2 - 3 inches. But I will let you know on Tuesday.

if you're going to steal a keg at least get one from the big boys