This year’s updates have been related to an idea I’ve been sharing for recirculating mash systems involving a high flow loop within a brewery’s plumbing
Tag: HERMS
Review of OBK’s “grain defender” false bottom
During the craziness of the holiday shopping season, one of my favourite homebrew equipment and ingredient suppliers, Ontario Beer Kegs put their false bottoms on sale… I’d been eyeing up one for awhile and couldn’t resist ordering one even though it wasn’t officially designed to fit my mash tun.
7 homebrewery designs and their rationale
The core of an all grain homebrewing system is arguably how the mash process is completed. Here I describe and compare 7 popular homebrewery designs based on this property, all of which are capable of making great beer.
Sanke keg CIP attempt number 2
When I initially designed my brewery, I did so with keg cleaning in mind. The C-HERMS (Counterflow – HERMS) brewery design was partially motivated by an opportunity to purpose the dual pumps for sanke keg clean-in-place. This ended up being a complete failure.
A shiny new way of calculating PID parameters
Based on my previous post about specification of PID parameters, I developed a basic shiny web app to do all of the calculations for you.
Electric brewery setup: duty cycle length
What should you set your duty cycle length to be on your brewery controller, such as one based around StrangeBrew Elsinore software?
PID tuning method for electric breweries
Proper specification of PID controller settings ensure that target temperatures are met quickly but not overshot, and cycling of temperature, or more formally, the process variable, is minimized. In an electric brewery, PID settings will be system specific, and will be especially determined by element wattage, liquid volumes, recirculation speed, and other environmental variables.
State of the brewery
I felt that the first post in my homebrewing blog should be a tour of my brewery.