Me mashing in - adding grain
The Zenzele Brew sculpture
Igloo as a mash tun, - starting the Lauter (recirculation)
Recirculating, the foam is natural and part of the enzyme activity
Grist after mashing
Steve the assistant brewer grinning as he adds hops
Steve stirring in the hops
Final Gravity, note the cold break settling in the bottom
Post boil pumping out the wort through the counterflow chiller, this is pre-copper piping
Pump and piping, counterflow cooler in back
The complete Brewery, Hot water on top, mash tun on left of photo, kettle on lowest level. While pumped the system can work on gravity. This was first revision of copper piping... later changed
HLT - Hot water tank. Can boil up to 13 US Gallons Fresh water is Carbon filtered and splashed in from the copper pipe at left.
Mashtun
48 Quart Mash and Lauter Tun, wort can be circulated while mashing to help with extraction and set the grain bed as a filter. I also have a 70 quart Mash tun for big beers.
The Mash Manifold, with slots, color is staining and the glue is also orange.
Manifold slots into the outlet for easy cleaning
Mash Tun with Manifold on bottom , made out of CPVC, it has slots cut into it every 2mm
The kettle, gtakes 15.5 gallons to the top, typical pre-boil volume is 13 gallons - dark black line on boiler tube
Counterflow chiller in background, pump and piping in foreground. All comes apart for cleaning
Back of HLT and Kettle with water supply pipes
Water supply with carbon filter below
Weighing my grain for Rittmeyer Kellerbier
Immersion chiller with quick disconnects, this is for chilling wort as quickly as possible after the boil...
Back of brew stand , filter and counter flow chiller
Kegerator 1
Few ribbons and 3 on tap , actually have three more inside with picnic taps, total 6 on tap possible at any one time
Inside the kegerator
6 Kegs on tap
Ale fermenting fridge, with Johnson controller on top of door 2x 7.5 Gal Sabco Keg Fermenters
The new Stainless conical, 14.2 Gal, weldless fittings, not the greatest homemade stand - still needs work
Lager freezer with Ranco controller, takes 3x 5 gallon kegs and two 3 gallon kegs , OR 1x 12 gallon fermenter and the two 3 gallon kegs Later this was upgraded with an 8" collar, so that 6 kegs now fit in it
Steady supply of CO2
Keg to Keg transfer - makes for easy moving of beer and less chance of an infection
Unsuccessful experiment to cool incoming water , using a new hosepipe I had lying around
The brewery after RIMS was installed, can see the first controller, copper piping was also updated
New RIMS in action
View of new valves and RIMS chamber, the thin stainless wire top left is the thermo-couple. Left valve is for RIMS and recirculation into Mash, RHS Valve goes back to kettle.
The RIMS chamber- has a electrical element over which wort is pumped and temp is controlled by a PLC
The BCS 460 on top of my old control box. This is the new PLC that I helped Beta test in Late 2008. Fully programmable via ethernet
The PLC GUI just after switching on with a Step mash programmed vers5
Early pic of my Barley crusher with added hopper
New cabinet and motorized version of the Barley Crusher
The new motorized mill
The cabinet was designed to take the buckets I use in the brewery for cleaning and carrying grain
To maximise the use of floor space, the lower cabinet stores 3 bags of grain
The complete Mill, hopper for 35lbs grain, buckets plus storage
Growth of lager yeast using a stir plate
New addition - RIMS controller- allows for accurate temperature control during Mashing
2005 pic , old style - Transferring into secondary
2005 pic old style - The primary bucket fermenter, note the krausen hop line from the primary fermentation, and the 5 gallon line mark
2005 Pic old style - 6 Gallon Carboy - made of glass, used for secondary fermentation, which mellows and clarifies the beer
The score - answered an advertisement and came home with all this cheaply.
