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The assembled brewery on my stoep
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The connectivity !
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A different angle on connectivity.
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View inside the Hot Liquor Tank showing the 3 kW heating element and the recirculation coil
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The 70 litre fermentor, showing the lid and copper thermocouple pocket that sits half way up the side wall
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Hot liquor tank, thermostat & heating element on right, ball valve at bottom, other two connections are for a copper coil internal to the HLT so I can recirculate my mash liquor prior to mash run-off.
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Box containing heating element connections and thermostat, on side of Hot Liquor Tank
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My grain mill, the Valley Mill, I imported it from Canada, you can search for it on the web.
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50 litre mash tun with false bottom, a disc of polyethylene with zillions of 2.5 mm holes drilled in it.
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Mashing in, sprinkling the grain into the mash liquor.
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Close up of the mash after mash-in.
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A copper dingus used to rapidly cool wort samples for SG and pH measurements
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The Checker pH meter from Hanna (RS Components), about $50 / R300.
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The mash being recirculated directly back on top. Check that sparkling wort ! Your mash runnings should be as crystal clear as the final beer (unless its a wheat beer or something)
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100 litre boiler with 3 kW incalloy element
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Internal view of the boiler & its 3 kW incalloy element
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Irish Moss is a sea weed extract and is used to make the protiens stick together at the end of teh boil so they don't end up in your fermentor. Here the Irish Moss is rehydrated 10 minutes before use in a cup of boiling water.
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On a hot summer's day the wort is chilled en route to the fermentor through teh counter flow chiller (black thing) and the coil on the left which I immerse in a container of iced water. The iced water bath provides additional chilling after the cold tap water and allows me to pump the wort fast through the system and still come out with the wort at yeast pitching temperatures.
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A blurry picture of my fermentor ! The lid screws on with an O-ring, the copper thermocouple pocket fits in half way up the side wall and the tap is fitted 3 cm from the bottom.
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Wort transfer by gravity from a 25 litre bucket into the 70 litres fermentor inside a fridge. You can see the temperature probe entering the thermocouple pocket part the way up the fermentor's right side.
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My fermenting & dispensing fridge, a lovely thing to find under your stairs at the end of a long day !
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Digital temperature readout. The controller is behind the readout.
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A full fermentor !
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Fermentor, top view. Screw-on lid and simple seal. The fermentor blows off through this tube during fermentation and I plug it like this after the bubbles stop rising.
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