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Here is the most recent image of my home brewing rig. I recently added a whirlpool arm and switched back to an immersion chiller shown in the image. Aside from that I just replaced some switches in my RIMS controller. I thought that I would post an shot of my current gear in case it helps anyone else with their design. If you have any question on my homebrewing setup please feel free to reach out to me.
Stainless Steel Conical Homebrewing Fermenters
Rejoice home brewers, right now you can pick up a high end SS BrewTech 7 gallon stainless steel conical fermenter for just $395! These are high end and well build stainless steel conical homebrewing fermenters, not some Alibaba knock off with leaky valves.
Here are some of the standard features on this conical fermenter:
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These stainless steel conical fermenters are loaded with features and I personally have two of them, a 7 gallon and a 14 gallon. I also have 2 of their 7 gallon brew bucket stainless steel fermenters which are also great. In my opinion they are the best fermenters out there for the money. I would recommend upgrading the racking arm on the unit to the MoreBeer Racking Arm system which you can find here for $75 and is shown in the above image on my fermenter.
I cut down the legs in this 7 gallon conical fermenter so that it could fit in my fermentation chamber / chest freezer. My 14 gallon conical fermenter has an internal temperature control system. The 14 gallon unit is currently on sale for $495 and is available here.
7 Gallon Conical Fermenter
Stainless Steel Conical Fermenters
It has been about a year since I purchased my 7 Gallon SS BrewTech conical fermenter and 14 gallon stainless steel conical fermenter. I have been very please with their performance and am happy to report that I have not had a single issue with them. The quality of the manufacturing is top notch and they were the best priced stainless steel conicals that I could find. Best of all they even shipped them for free, saving me a bundle.
Their price was recently reduced and they also release an upgraded Brew Master version of their already quality built line of stainless steel conical fermenters. So if you are looking to upgrade your homebrewing fermenters, this may be a great time to do so.
These stainless steel conicals come loaded with features, here are some of the specs:
7 Gallon Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter
Price: $395
Stainless Steel 7 Gallon Conical Fermenter
14 Gallon Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter
Price: $495
Stainless Steel 14 Gallon Conical Fermenter
They have a full range of these stainless steel homebrewing fermenters, including 1/2 barrel and full 1 barrel sized fermenter. Their brew bucket line of stainless steel fermenters is also on sale right now starting at $195.
digital home brewing system
Sale On Ruby Street Home Brewing Rigs and Home Beer Brewing Setups Ruby Street Homebrewing Rigs and Homebrew Systems
Description: Adventures in Homebrewing currently has a sale on many of their Ruby Street homebrew rigs, Home brewing Racks, Brew rigs and Home brewing stands. In addition to that, RubyStreet recently released a new digital home brewing system that you can check out. These home brewing rigs run from about $1200 to over $5000 for a fully loaded digital system.
ruby street homebrewing rig
Here are some of the details on these Ruby Street Home Brewing Stands:
The RubySteet Fusion home brewing system is designed as their most compact and portable model ever. This homebrewing rig is loaded with professional features, the Fusion 15™ is the newest addition to our lineup of professional grade brewing rigs. This brew rig is called the Fusion because it is a culmination of profession beer brewery design features, conveniences, and fabrication technology that they have drawn from our other designs as well as countless custom builds. 15.5 Gallon Kettles will brew a 10 gallon batch. The small frame allows this system to easily transport in most SUV’s. Simple natural gas conversion option makes this system the perfect for commercial pilot use and home-brewers that simply want the best.
This All Grain Homebrewing Stand System Includes:
All welded steel tube frame construction with industrial powder coated finish on frame
Burner grates finished in black with a 2000 degree industrial coating
(3) 15 Gallon 304 Stainless Steel Kettles w/ Lids
Propane regulator including 4′ stainless braided hose included
Magnetic drive pumps included with stainless steel drip shields and stainless outflow control valves
Remote control key fob on / off switches for both pumps included
All sanitary tri-clamp fittings on HLT, mash tun, boil kettle, and pumps
Silicone hoses with fittings included
Mash Tun and boil kettle include perforated stainless wall to wall false bottoms
Ruby Street now has designed their own Digital controller for the RIMS and HERMS System. Made from the highest quality components available right here in the USA!
Digital Controller Package Option will include:
Digital Control Panel and Bracket (1)
Sensor Cables (2)
Ignition Coil Box (1)
Solenoid Valves (3)
Temperature Sensors (3)
Burner Electrodes (3)
With the digital control package we recommend adding the HERMS option to fully utilize the mash temperature control feature.
$30.95 Home Brewing Whirlpooling Arm
Promo Code Date: 1-29-2016
Promotion Details: $30.95 Home Brewing Whirlpooling Arm
Promo Code: BEERDEAL
Coupon Description: MoreBeer.com currently has a coupon code for a $30.95 Home Brewing Whirlpooling Arm. This stainless steel homebrewing whirlpool arm is designed for installation underneath the handle of your homebrew kettle. this piece of stainless steel home brewing equipment will allow you to achieve a perfect whirlpool in your Boil Kettle. Simply pump your wort from your ball valve, into this piece, which will jet around the inside of the kettle, forming a strong whirlpool. The advantages to a whirlpool are many. It will settle Trub in the center of your kettle, making it easy to pull clear wort from your ball valve. The whirlpool will result in a much higher chilling efficiency if using an immersion chiller, due to the increased turbulation of wort. On top of this, the increased flow will result in higher extraction of hop oils and flavor during flameout additions! This homebrewing spigot is made of stainless steel, ensuring it will be used in your brewing for years to come. It features a 1/2″ Full Port ball valve and a 1/2″ barb. The inner barbed elbow is 3/8″. The bulkhead is a specifically engineered piece of stainless, made for brewing! It features a 1/2″ MPT outlet for hooking up your ball valve directly, along with FPT on the inside for connection of any brewing accessory you might want.
whirlpool arm
Home Brewing Quick Disconnect
I have compiled a list of some of the best prices I could find on homebrewing quick connects and homebrewing quick disconnects. Many of these deals include free shipping offers. I like to use stainless steel quick disconnects because they shorten my homebrewing day by making my hose connects and disconnects (which I have many of) quicker. With conventional threaded fittings, moving around your tubing can be time consuming, troublesome and even dangerous when working with hot liquids. Quick disconnects allow you to more quickly and easily move your home brewing tubing. They save time and decrease ware on fittings and hoses. I highly recommend them as an addition to your home brewery. Here are some of the best deals that I have been able to find on home brewing quick connects and homebrewing quick disconnects.
Home Brewing Quick Connects
Best Deal on Home Brewing Quick Disconnects $8.99
1/2″ Female Quick Disconnect 304 Stainless Steel 1/2″ Barb
Quick Disconnects $6.49
1/2″ Stainless Steel Male Quick Disconnect MPT
Quick Disconnects $9.00
Stainless Steel Female Quick Disconnect 1/2″
Quick Disconnects $5.99
1/2″ Barbed Stainless Steel Male Quick Disconnect
I just wanted to wish everyone a Hoppy Brew Year and a Happy New Year. 2015 ended up being a great brewing year for me and I was able to add some new home brewing equipment to my setup and brew some great beer batches with my friends and family.
I have a couple of beers in the works for 2016 right now and if they come out well, I hope to post the recipe for anyone who is interested. I hope you had a great 2015 and have an even better 2016.
Here are a couple of home brewing photos from November and December 2015
Hoppy Brew Year
MoreBeer Holiday Sale
MoreBeer.com annual 12 Deals of Christmas Sale is currently going on and you do not want to miss out on this one. Every day they release new sale items that can save you as much as 50% on items such as beer brewing kits, homebrewing equipment and some of their top selling home beer brewing items! For instance, today you can save 50% on a dual scale home brewing refractometer. So check back often so see what will be their next homebrew deal! They will list the More Beer promo code at the bottom of the page and I will also list the best MoreBeer.com Coupon Codes on my home page and my home brewing coupon pages.
Digital Homebrewing System and Brew Rig
Great news homebrewers, MoreBeer just released a follow up to their popular line of Homebrewing Brew Sculptures and HomeBrew Rigs! They are bringing homebrewing into the future and to a whole new level with a digital touch screen interface for they Low Rider homebrewing stand that lets you control almost every aspect of your brew session.
They are calling this new digital, stainless steel homebrewing system the Low Rider! The Low Rider is their new top of the line Single Tier Brew Sculpture. Since this brew system is low to the ground with all of the brew kettles at the same height, it allows you to access each kettle without the need for a step stool. That is one of the reasons why these stainless steel homebrewing systems are popular pilot systems for breweries like Russian River and Sierra Nevada.
So what makes this new homebrewing rig better than the other brew rigs out there? Quite simply, they are loaded with features and are super reliable! Also, these home brew systems are built in the USA by MoreBeer and include free shipping. Free shipping is a big deal when it comes to a homebrewing setup like this because it can cost several hundred dollars in freight charges to ship a setup like this! Following is a list of features included with this new MoreBeer.com homebrewing rig:
Digital Brew Rig
This new digital homebrewing system comes in two different versions. The “low rider” format featured at the top of the article and this tippy dump version that is shown above. The two formats are priced similarly, so depending on which design works best for you, that can drive your choice.
What makes this new MoreBeer homebrewing system so incredible is the innovative new digital touch screen brewing control system. This new digital brew rig control system is built around a 7 inch touch screen that lets you control everything from times and temperature to setting reminders for additions throughout the entire home brewing process. They have really brought home brewing into the future with this new digital brewing system. The touch screen control panel allows the home brewer to choose from 3 preset mash schedules and even design their own schedule with up to 5 steps. Best of all, the digital control module maintains the hot liquor tank temperature for you by automatically turning the burner off and on and monitoring the temp with a digital probe. If you are old school or afraid of Sky Net taking over, there is also a manual mode that allows you to over ride the system.
Morebeer also sells a variety of other homebrewing rigs, brew stands, brew rigs, homebrew rack, brew sculptures and homebrewing stands from other vendors such as Blichmann and Pico Brew.
I just purchased a couple of conical fermenters and now it seems like all that I do is blog about conicals. Well, this will be my last for a while, well at least until next week because I am just finishing up my temperature control unit and plan on posting some photos about that. I had to write this one because right now MoreBeer has a huge sale on Blichmann 7 gallon, 14 gallon and 27 gallon Fermentator conical fermenters currently going on.
Blichmann 7 Gallon Fermenator Conical Fermenter
Right now, you can get this 7 gallon Blichmann stainless steel conical fermenter for only $499
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Blichmann 14 Gallon Fermenator Conical Fermenter
Right now, you can get this 14 gallon Blichmann stainless steel conical fermenter for only $533
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Blichmann 27 Gallon Fermenator Conical Fermenter
Right now, you can get this 27 gallon Blichmann stainless steel conical fermenter for only $707
Click Here for the 27 Gallon Conical Fermenter Sale at MoreBeer
Blichmann is known for their high quality homebrewing products and they have not compromised their standards on their conical fermenters. They are some of the best stainless steel conicals available to home brewers. These Blichmann stainless steel conical fermentors features a weld-free interior, a dump valve for removing yeast and sediment, and a rotating racking arm for clearn beer transferring. Prior to bottling or kegging your home brew, you can dump your yeast and trub out of the bottom valve, making for a very clean transfer and giving you the ability to harvest your yeast. The lid has a removable hatch that is pressure capable, allowing you to easily transfer using CO2 to minimize air exposure and oxidation.
Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter ANIMATION
Recently I had purchase a 7 gallon stainless steel conical fermenter and was in heaven until I realized that it did not fit in my converted chest freezer / fermentation chamber! So you know what that means; time to grab the cut saw and go all A-Team on the conical fermenter.
Stainless Steel Conical Homebrewing Fermenters
In the above photo, the stainless steel conical fermenter on the right is the 7 gallon unit that I am converting to fit into the chest freezer. I am adding a temperature control unit to the stainless steel conical fermenter on the left and will cover that project in a future blog. So to start, I had to replace the lid on fermenter with the lid from one of my stainless steel brew buckets. Because the stainless steel brew bucket lid is flat, it saved me a few inches and let me connect a stainless steel elbow pipe fitting so that I can use a blow-off tube as opposed to an airlock which save me another couple of inches. With those simple modifications, I was just about there. Next I measured the clearance space from the lower valve to the floor and I had approximately 4 inches of clearance. So I trimmed each leg down approximately 3 inches as you can see in the photo at the top of the page.
The modifications to my stainless conical fermenter worked perfectly and now it easily fits in my chest freezer and I am once again a happy man. You can see the photo below. If all goes well, I will brew my first batch with this fermenter this weekend and will let you guys know how it goes, but so far I have been very happy with the quality. I gave it a good cleaning and there were no leaks, all of the welds are perfect and the valves and fittings are all very high quality.
If you are looking to purchase one, they are currently available for just $395!
If you need on of the stainless steel brew bucket lids, they can be purchased here for $23
Conical Fermenter
Blichmann Engineering Stainless Steel Conical Fermenters and Stainless Steel Brew Kettles are currently on sale! Click the conical fermenter image for additional details!
Blichmann Homebrewing Fermenters and Brew Kettle Sale
There is currently a sale going on at Greatfermentations.com that will let you save some serious cash on Blichmann Home Brewing products if you act now! It is a limited time deal, so if you were thinking of upgrading your Blichmann gear, this may be the time to do it. Blichmann Engineering makes some of the best homebrewing equipment around. You can check out the sale items here:
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