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	The Bards Brewery This is the BardsBrewey, a 3 vessel stainless steel RIMS temperature controlled Brewery . I use this brewery to make batches of up to 150ltrs. The brewery consists of ; 3 Stainless steel 160ltr vessels 1 as a Hot Liquor Tank, 1 as a Mash Tun, and one as a Wort Boiler/Copper A stainless steel March May Condensate pump, (this houses the RIMS heater) and is used as an underback An all Stainless Steel GP550 Pump A Blichmann Engineering Therminator Wort Cooler A Homemade two PID heater control system A 200 Ltr plastic conical fermenter Plenty of copper pipe and Silcone hose The Build The Brewery Brew stand is manufactured from UNISTRUT, which can be cut and bolted together by anyone with a brain and a couple of spanners, its very strong, easy to work with and can easily be modified should you change your mind. We are starting to look like a proper Brewstand midle pot is the Mash Tun the Pot on the Left is the copper. HLT is in place and all is bolted up time to think about the pumps. The Pump on the Left Is a Stuart Turner RG550 stainless steel pump note there is a balance valve in between the inlet and outlet of the pump, Using this arrangement you can get really finite control on the outlet of the pump, allowing me to use this pump for sparging which needs minimal flow to CIP which needs full flow. The pump on the right is a March may Condensate pump (I picked it up on ebay cheap) I use it as an underback pump, and a RIMS brewing chamber, note the boss sticking out of the rear left of the box this is a kettle element. To compliment the pumps and Pots and stand I have a plate Heat exchanger in the Form of a Blichman Engineering Thermonator. . The Vessels All three vessels are identical and are ex large commercial brewery, they were originally designed to hold additives, such as finings etc... Inside The Mash Tun Bespoke Stainless Steel False Bottom, excellently crafted by a fellow brewer in the Midlands, if you want one email me for details. Inside the Copper A very simple hop strainer has bee manufactured out of 15mm copper pipe with 3mm holes in it, then fine Stainless Steel Mesh has been wrapped around to prevent cold break and hop material getting into the Wort Chiller. The Underbackb RIMS Pump This is a stainless steel box with a pump built into the top, control is via float switches pictured below. The pump operates automaticaly on tank level, i just open the outlet valve on the mashtun and the pump recircs the wort back into the tun for me. I put a PT100 probe in the tank & use a kettle element in the corner of the stainless steel box to keep the wort at a constant temp, and also to raise the mash temp when step mashing. The PID control panel Temps of the HLT and Mash are taken care of with a Custom wired Control panel consisting of two Carel PID controllers and 2 40amp Solid State Relays. Conical Fermenting Vessel I brew in a 200ltr Conical fermenter, the stand is just plain old 2"x2" wood screwed together with some heafty screws. this will soon be insulated and boxed in. There will be a product coil inside the conical for cooling and a heater installed in the base of the box for heating in winter, as this will be housed in the garage. The conical has been raised again since the above photos and now has 4 shiny stainless steel legs, this will allow easier racking and skimming of yeast, as well as keg/cask filling. Yeast skinmming/cropping from the brew is via a stainless steel 1" ball valve at the base of the vessel, i can take yeast and trub off the bottom of the fermenter at any point in the Fermenting process. Filling of bottles etc is done via the 1/2"valve 1/2way up the cone. More to follow as I progress.
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The Bards Brewery

Bridestone Herms Rims Home Brewery

This is the BardsBrewey, a 3 vessel stainless steel RIMS temperature controlled Brewery .

I use this brewery to make batches of up to 150ltrs.

The brewery consists of ;

3 Stainless steel 160ltr vessels 1 as a Hot Liquor Tank, 1 as a Mash Tun, and one as a Wort Boiler/Copper
A stainless steel March May Condensate pump, (this houses the RIMS heater) and is used as an underback
An all Stainless Steel GP550 Pump
A Blichmann Engineering Therminator Wort Cooler
A Homemade two PID heater control system
A 200 Ltr plastic conical fermenter
Plenty of copper pipe and Silcone hose

The Build

Home Brew Brew stand

The Brewery Brew stand is manufactured from UNISTRUT, which can be cut and bolted together by anyone with a brain and a couple of spanners, its very strong, easy to work with and can easily be modified should you change your mind.

Home brew Brew stand

We are starting to look like a proper Brewstand midle pot is the Mash Tun the Pot on the Left is the copper.

Home brewing Brew stand

HLT is in place and all is bolted up time to think about the pumps.

HERMS RIMS brewery

The Pump on the Left Is a Stuart Turner RG550 stainless steel pump note there is a balance valve in between the inlet and outlet of the pump, Using this arrangement you can get really finite control on the outlet of the pump, allowing me to use this pump for sparging which needs minimal flow to CIP which needs full flow. The pump on the right is a March may Condensate pump (I picked it up on ebay cheap) I use it as an underback pump, and a RIMS brewing chamber, note the boss sticking out of the rear left of the box this is a kettle element.

To compliment the pumps and Pots and stand I have a plate Heat exchanger in the Form of a Blichman Engineering Thermonator.

. Blichman Therminator

The Vessels

HERMS Brewery

Brewery Vessel

Mash Tun Top

All three vessels are identical and are ex large commercial brewery, they were originally designed to hold additives, such as finings etc...

Inside The Mash Tun

Mash Tun False bottom

Bespoke Stainless Steel False Bottom, excellently crafted by a fellow brewer in the Midlands, if you want one email me for details.

Inside the Copper

Hop Strainer

A very simple hop strainer has bee manufactured out of 15mm copper pipe with 3mm holes in it, then fine Stainless Steel Mesh has been wrapped around to prevent cold break and hop material getting into the Wort Chiller.

The Underbackb RIMS Pump

Underback RIMS pump

This is a stainless steel box with a pump built into the top, control is via float switches pictured below.

Underback RIMS pump

The pump operates automaticaly on tank level, i just open the outlet valve on the mashtun and the pump recircs the wort back into the tun for me. I put a PT100 probe in the tank & use a kettle element in the corner of the stainless steel box to keep the wort at a constant temp, and also to raise the mash temp when step mashing.

RIMS HERMS Mashing System

The PID control panel

Temps of the HLT and Mash are taken care of with a Custom wired Control panel consisting of two Carel PID controllers and 2 40amp Solid State Relays.

Rims HERMS PID control System

PID HERMS RIMS control panel

Conical Fermenting Vessel

I brew in a 200ltr Conical fermenter, the stand is just plain old 2"x2" wood screwed together with some heafty screws. this will soon be insulated and boxed in. There will be a product coil inside the conical for cooling and a heater installed in the base of the box for heating in winter, as this will be housed in the garage.

Conical Fermenting Vessel

The conical has been raised again since the above photos and now has 4 shiny stainless steel legs, this will allow easier racking and skimming of yeast, as well as keg/cask filling.

Conical Fermenting vessel

Yeast skinmming/cropping from the brew is via a stainless steel 1" ball valve at the base of the vessel, i can take yeast and trub off the bottom of the fermenter at any point in the Fermenting process. Filling of bottles etc is done via the 1/2"valve 1/2way up the cone.

More to follow as I progress.