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SookeBrewing
Joined: 01 Sep 2012 Posts: 69 Location: Sooke, BC, Canada
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Link Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Success! I completed the tile work over the last week or two and my electric brewery is officially, officially complete.
This project was a lot of fun to put together over the past year (almost to the day). I brewed my first "official" beer with the completed system last night and it is just a dream to brew on. My workshop has never been so clean because instead of stressing over temperatures and manually sparging, I had a lot of spare time!
Big thanks to Kal and all of you forum folk for the plans and advice and answers to my many question
CHEERS!
_________________ - Sooke, BC, Canada
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Castermmt
Joined: 03 Jan 2011 Posts: 863 Location: Lowell, In
Drinking: Steelhead Porter, Alt-Toids, Hefty-Weizen, Terry's Kolsch, African Amber, Pumpkin Ale, Double Dog Ale
Working on: Janet's Brown Ale, Terry's Kolsch, Pilsner
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SookeBrewing
Joined: 01 Sep 2012 Posts: 69 Location: Sooke, BC, Canada
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Link Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Castermmt wrote: | Looks great, nice job! What was your first brew on your new system? Cheers, Castermmt |
Well, technically it was the third brew with the system, but the first with the ventilation and everything else finished. It was the first one I would say went really "well" though - no problems with hitting temperatures, no overshooting, no problems with recirculation (I had a stuck recirc on the first 5 gallon batch, and had to gate the pump significantly on the first 10-gal batch).
And my home-made hop stopper performed admirably this time, only a scoop or two of liquid left in the boil kettle - I think using pellet hops helped.
I live about an hour from my LHBS so I buy lots of ingredients in bulk. I didn't have enough pale malt on hand to do anything big, so I brewed a simple bitter using Belma hops. 11 lbs pale, 2 lbs C60, about a half pound each of Vienna and Munich, some Carapils. An ounce of Belma at 60, 20, and flameout.
It's fermenting with US-05 nicely.
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ryan810cows
Joined: 31 May 2015 Posts: 4
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Link Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Your (2) tier work table ROCKS! Do you have any instructions as to how you built it?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11120 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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ryan810cows
Joined: 31 May 2015 Posts: 4
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Link Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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THANK!
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ryan810cows
Joined: 31 May 2015 Posts: 4
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Link Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:48 pm Post subject: Polishing Kegs |
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I wanted to follow the same steps you did for polishing your kegs up. Can you send me a link to it or your instructions? The suebob.com didn't work. Thanks
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foomench
Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 704 Location: Longmont, CO
Drinking: Pinot barrel aged quad
Working on: Flanders oude bruin in barrel, Flanders red fermenting to refill the barrel
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21745
Short polishing instructions: Get a backing pad for an angle grinder. Start with a coarse or medium grit pad. These are red or blue, and kind of like a dish scrubber in texture. You can get pretty nice looking kegs just with the fine one. Now if you want to take it to the next level, get a cloth pad and polish. The polishes come in various colors and grits. I think the order from rougher to finer that I used most recently is black, gray, green, then pink.
I think for a more mirror finish, I need some of that car liquid metal gloss stuff.
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kwdriver
Joined: 19 Jan 2013 Posts: 113 Location: Eagle, CO
Drinking: Munich Helles, Schwarzbier
Working on: Guinness clone, Vienna Lager
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ryan810cows
Joined: 31 May 2015 Posts: 4
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Link Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks guys! That's great!
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foomench
Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 704 Location: Longmont, CO
Drinking: Pinot barrel aged quad
Working on: Flanders oude bruin in barrel, Flanders red fermenting to refill the barrel
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Link Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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That is very good. One thing I'll add:
Take a break when your angle grinder starts to get particularly warm. Use that time to wipe off other parts of the keg with a rag (as mentioned at the link). Otherwise, the bolt that holds the forward handle on your angle grinder will get too hot and eventually shear off.
_________________ Brewery equipment photos (et al) here: https://picasaweb.google.com/114861423235799103704
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Firebrewmedic43
Joined: 23 Dec 2014 Posts: 104 Location: Tennessee
Drinking: barrel-aged Foreign Export Stout
Working on: Helles
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Link Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:27 am Post subject: |
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I found the blue pad and the white pad at Blaines farm and fleet online. they were cheaper than Lowe's. My Lowe's did't carry the polishing pad.
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yax75
Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 2
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Link Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Can you post a pic of how you mounted the ssr's? I am using the same ones and I am scratching my head as how they get mounted. Do you sandwich the ssr, the panel top and heat sink?
Dave
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