The Brewery
Here is our Brewing Equipment. We have constructed a two tier brewing system which consists of converted 1/2 barrel kegs for the hot liquor tank, mash tun and boil kettle. Ball valves and Brewmometers are installed in each keg. The hot liquor tank also has a sight glass for the measurement of water additions. We use the keg mash tun when brewing 10 gallon batches, and have a 48 quart Igloo Cube Cooler that is used as the mash tun when brewing 5 gallon batches. A 12" round stainless steel false bottom is interchangeable between the two. A March 809 pump is used to pump the hot wort through the homemade wort chiller. This chiller drops the temp of the wort from 200 deg f to 65 deg f going into the fermenter. As far as fermenters go, we use both 5 and 6.5 gallon glass carboys and a 14 gallon stainless steel Fermenator. A JSP Maltmill has been motorized for grain crushing with a custom built hopper. The newest addition to the brew rig has been a water filter to take out any sediment or chlorine that is present in our local water.
The brew rig with the 15.5 gallon mash tun.
The JSP maltmill crushing grain.
Filling the mash tun.
The Igloo Cube mash tun.
The boil of a 10 gallon batch.
Quality control AFTER the mashout.
Some of the kegs and the travelling tap setup.
The 14 gallon Fermenator.
The fermenters.
Another view of the counterflow chiller and the fermenter.
Pumping the wort through the counterflow chiller.
Filling the 14 gallon conical Fermenator.
The water filter mounted on the brew rig.
The fridge.
