In the year 2007 I had a pretty good June, I sold my first house… paid off a bunch of bills accumulated because I was selling a house…. bought my first MAC…. and bought my first home brew kit.
One of those three items is still with me today… go ahead guess… I’ll wait.
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If you guessed the MAC, you would be close but after 5 years the old laptop couldn’t keep up. Almost all of that first beer brewing kit is still with me and still used in some shape or form. The only casualty has been a glass carboy that cracked when cleaning. For 10 years to still be using most all of the stuff is pretty impressive in my world. Which now 10 years on I’m to a point where I want to step up my brewing operations by don’t want to piecemeal the deal.
So here is the outline of what will become the brew setup 2.0
- Overall the system will use a “HERMS” process https://youtu.be/PNKcQoGZOpQ though mine won’t be nearly that fancy.
- Hot liquor heating will come from a second propane stove I have
- One pump for the entire setup which means I’ll be moving hoses
- which means quick connects for hoses
- And I need to get a counter flow chiller
I do have a diagram someplace in one of my cloud drives, but it is not ready for prime time.
So in the mean time… I keep plotting and planning.