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re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread

Posted on 4/16/15 at 10:47 pm to
Posted by I_heart_beer
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2015
301 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 10:47 pm to
Just wanted to share my set up with y'all. I've been brewing since last summer, I brewed 12 batches (a few 10 gallon batches but mainly 5 gallon) with a regular propane jet burner. When I started I knew I wanted to look into electric brewing so I almost immediately began planning an e-brewery. After about 6 months of planning and ordering parts and building my panel and keggles I finally brewed my first electric batch (5 gallon Saison) a couple of weeks ago. I brewed my second batch (10 gallons of my "house" IPA) this afternoon and I'm loving this new system. It's an e-herms system with 3 keggles and two pumps. Anyway, here she is:



I've completely caught up on this thread and there's definitely some good, knowledgeable folks that post here. I'm looking forward to hanging around and learning a thing or two.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
27177 posts
Posted on 4/17/15 at 5:43 am to
Whenever I don't live in a shoe box and have an actual house that's mine, I plan on building an e-herms too. Any lessons learned while going through the build?

Posted by LSUGrad00
Member since Dec 2003
2428 posts
Posted on 4/17/15 at 8:22 am to
quote:

I wish I would have made all my kegs bottom drain


yep, I use the one keggle I have as a mash tun and it's a complete pain in the arse to clean.

Did you cut the bottom of the keg and use the preexisting triclamp on the top of the keg as a drain?
Posted by BMoney
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2005
16280 posts
Posted on 4/17/15 at 8:54 am to
Thought I saw that pic on FB yesterday. Checked, and sure 'nuff.

Finally going to brew again this weekend. It's been over 6 weeks since my last brew day, and that was for Zapp's. Shockingly enough, I'm brewing an IPA.
Posted by Creamer
louisiana
Member since Jul 2010
2817 posts
Posted on 4/18/15 at 8:36 am to
This is a dumb question, but where is the heat source? Is it inside the keggle?

I feel like zoolander. The files are in the computer...
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