My B3 1200 Clone

[Otterbrew]

I had built my structure with the same material, and it worked great. One of the real benefits with this contruction is that you can change things as you work the system out. I have already reduced the space between my burners and lowered them below the brew pot/mash tun.

A couple of things to note with this design:

Be careful the first few times you fire this up, since that material is Zinc coated, this isn't the best thing to breathe in as it "cooks-off".

There will be a far amount of heat in the strut from your burner, so be careful with your mash tun, it might melt.

Do your caster lock? lifting a keg of material on this, and trying to center on the burner, might put some load on the base so that it moves unexpectedly.

Take care, and good luck.
-Greg

[pus rocket]

Otter, are you talking about the wire shelving I posted?

I was wondering about the effects of burner heat on the wire. It's steel and a lot thicker than a barbecue grill. Hate to sound like a total rube, but it seems like that's enough to make it work for me...

[bubbabrewer]

Thanks for the tips Otter. I won't be snortin the zinc. I think I'll fire up the burner soon to see how the heat builds.

[Whitebeard_Brewer]

"Vanna #1": I was wondering about that as well. One of the reasons I haven't done many AG is that the our sculpture is so tall, and it's very difficult for me to lift the heavy ass keg up there. I would be interested to see how this works out.

Tell BadRock he needs to get a pump, so you don't have to do any lifting! Unless your talking about an empty keg...then that's a different story.....you need a cherry picker, or an engine hoist. Or even a ghetto rig like Bub uses.

[yeast_slurry_speech]

Bubbabrewer is that uni-strut?

[bubbabrewer]

Bubbabrewer is that uni-strut?

It's Superstrut...just about the same thing.

[jaken]

[quote="pus rocket"]That's really nice. I was in Costco the other day and saw a steel unit with heavy duty wire shelving, each shelf holds 2000 lbs. It cost $145.



gotta love chinese steel.....

[bubbabrewer]

Here she is brewing up 10 gallons of Hefe. 5 gallons American, 5 gallons Barvarian. This really made my process go well. A rain storm came up at the end of the brew but I just rolled it under cover for a minute until the rain passed. I decided to put the HLT on it's legs and use gravity for the transfer of mash water and sparge water. I did a batch sparge even though I have a copper sparge manifold in the top of the cooler.
The only thing I regret is having to drain the wort into a bucket and pouring it into the boil kettle. I need a pump but I'm not sure of how that works when you can't restrict the input of a pump. How do you use a pump to drain the wort. Gravity seems so much gentler.