Electric Brewery

[Crusader-Rob]

Hi Everyone,

Its on my list of things to do, as I'm setting up a brewshed outthe back. (No I'm not building it, its essentially a garage, that wont fit a car in it, weird.)

anyways, it needs power so i can connect fridge and so on for fermentation, and I've been researching and thinking, that going all electric, would actually make sense, and I could become a bit more automated so to speak, less heavy lifting lugging things outside etc. its all in one place.... the list goes on.

My current setup is as follows:

- 50lt Cooler Mash Tun, fitted with Bazooke Screen
-50lt Stainless Steel Brew Pot, one of the cheaper thinner ones of trademe.
- Immersion Chiller
doing 19-23 litres batches mainly.
I also have a 30lt pot, from the days of partial boil extract as well.

 

So my thoughts were one of a couple of options... a couple of people are using Hot Water urns for E-BIAB, and thought maybe I could use 3 of these 40lt urns and turn them into a single tier 3-vessel system, as the taps apparantly come apart, and I can then fit  thermowells etc. in there and have the ballvalve installed, along with some of the ideas from www.theelectricbrewery.com, for probes and so on mainly.

But then I thought I could possibly make it myself, using the existing items I have:
30lt Pot as HLT
Current mashtun either improve insulation or fit a pump and HERMS through HLT for Mash temp Stability, I think I'd like to do it, as it tends to skip a step for vorlaufing as well and creates ne clear, repeatable beer
and 50lt boil kettle.

All fitted (apart from Mashtun) with Heating Elements, Temperature probes ball valves, and 1-2 pumps, possibly add another bazooka screen to the boil kettle to help filter out the trub?

Can anyone offer any advice, those who have E-Breweries, how does it work for you? what equipment do you have, and would what I'm saying actually work through the Cooler Tun?
If anyone has done anything similar, an idea of what parts. you name it I want the information.

[Sam]

And for the Set value jumping around within 0.6 degrees they recommended increasing the FILT (filter) setting number. On mine this works with the sensor on the bench (haven't done a proper test yet), on mine 3 to 5 works, haven't checked if theres any disadvantage to using the filter yet though