Brewhouse - sculpture complete!!! Brewed 20 Gallons sunday!

[Bellmer]

The sculpture is all well, good, and impressive, but the real question here is how did you get the wife to brew with you?

Let me know your secrets....

[pinbrew]

first of all the HLT with its 1500w element takes forever to heat my water to strike temps

This won't help doing multiple batches in a row, but what about using the boil kettle to heat the first water for mashing in while the HLT heats up the stuff for mashing out? That was my plan for my electric brewery. I was thinking a 240V heating element in the boil kettle, and just a 120V 1500W in the HLT.

Well let me say this,,,, the sight glass doesent start showing water until I get around 3-4 gallons in the keg, It would have been nice to put the pickup on the bottom of the keg and then run a tube out to the side so I could see ALL the water in the tank... So I have enough marks on the site glass for 8 gallons, add that to the 3 thats in the tank already and you have 11-12 gallons to heat up.. I am not really worried about the initial time it takes to heat up the water, I can set it up on a timer or something and have that ready.. Heres the problem I ran into..

10 gallon batches, I think my initial amount of water for 20lb of grains was around 6-7 gallons. mash that in at 165(well rest ata 154).... set timer for 60 min wait.... Right after that I re-fill the HLT , after refilling it the temp in the HLT is about 120 degrees.. It takes me about 90 minutes to get that water back up to 165, and I really need it at about 175... SO, my 2 batches that I did on sunday sat in the mash tun for 90-100 minutes each before sparging. just really sucked...

I am going to add another 1500w to the HLT or maybe just 1 4500w element.. that would totally rock..

On another note,, that was also my first time using my whirlpool chiller, and wow it really does help to drop the temp...

SO I am thinking, I can cut at least an hour off my time with another element. unfortunatly I did not wire for that amount of elements..... BUT I did run all my electricity in conduit exposed, so that should be an easy add.

[pinbrew]

The sculpture is all well, good, and impressive, but the real question here is how did you get the wife to brew with you?

Let me know your secrets....

Let me PM you my paypal address... That kind of information is gonna cost.

But if you want to try my "free" approach... do this..

1st... take some nude photos of the wife.
2nd.. put them in a brown envelope and seal it, label it, "Babe, for your consideration"
3rd.. add a note inside, " These will be posted on the net in 24 hours if you dont comply )
4th.. add some demands,, like, " you must brew with me, make me sandwiches, cleanup
the mess when were done, and a happy ending at the end of the brew day )
5th.. throw it in the passenger seat of her car.. ( avoids you being around when she opens it )
6th.. Wait............ dont worry the call will come.. It might be your wife, it might be her
laywer )

Now this will only work if she actually likes you... and wants to be with you...

Notice: This information is for educational purposes only, the author of this cannot and will not be held responsible.

[Saltycow]

Awesome system. what program are you running on the laptop?

[andy77]

The sculpture is all well, good, and impressive, but the real question here is how did you get the wife to brew with you?

Let me know your secrets....

Let me PM you my paypal address... That kind of information is gonna cost.

But if you want to try my "free" approach... do this..

1st... take some nude photos of the wife.
2nd.. put them in a brown envelope and seal it, label it, "Babe, for your consideration"
3rd.. add a note inside, " These will be posted on the net in 24 hours if you dont comply )
4th.. add some demands,, like, " you must brew with me, make me sandwiches, cleanup
the mess when were done, and a happy ending at the end of the brew day )
5th.. throw it in the passenger seat of her car.. ( avoids you being around when she opens it )
6th.. Wait............ dont worry the call will come.. It might be your wife, it might be her
laywer )

Now this will only work if she actually likes you... and wants to be with you...

Notice: This information is for educational purposes only, the author of this cannot and will not be held responsible.

Brilliant!

[Bellmer]

The sculpture is all well, good, and impressive, but the real question here is how did you get the wife to brew with you?

Let me know your secrets....

Let me PM you my paypal address... That kind of information is gonna cost.

But if you want to try my "free" approach... do this..

1st... take some nude photos of the wife.
2nd.. put them in a brown envelope and seal it, label it, "Babe, for your consideration"
3rd.. add a note inside, " These will be posted on the net in 24 hours if you dont comply )
4th.. add some demands,, like, " you must brew with me, make me sandwiches, cleanup
the mess when were done, and a happy ending at the end of the brew day )
5th.. throw it in the passenger seat of her car.. ( avoids you being around when she opens it )
6th.. Wait............ dont worry the call will come.. It might be your wife, it might be her
laywer )

Now this will only work if she actually likes you... and wants to be with you...

Notice: This information is for educational purposes only, the author of this cannot and will not be held responsible.

She's smarter than I am and makes all the money. My bargaining position is far from what one would call "high" at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I wrote it all down

[pinbrew]

[/She's smarter than I am and makes all the money. My bargaining position is far from what one would call "high" at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I wrote it all down

Right, you have to make a shitload more money than her.... forgot that ...

[pinbrew]

Awesome system. what program are you running on the laptop?

Well that is called "XPSI" extended personal system interface.

Its used to program Barber Coleman Microzone (HVAC) controlers..

They are pretty much universal controlers, 8 universal inputs ( DV,AV, sensors, etc.. ) 8 digital outputs, and 4 analog outputs 4-20ma...

I used to use them in my line of work, now I just use them for all kinds of stuff I want to control,,,, The programming ( block programming, u just pick and choose and point stuff to other blocks or inputs or outputs ) allows for pid loops, just about any math functions, man I love them..

I picked some up off ebay for like $20 each , the card and the base. I can supply the XPSI program, only other thing you would need to program it is a rs232-485 converter to plug into it..

I'll have to do a write up on it and let everyone know about them... give me some time and I'll post that info..

mike