Tag Archive: equipment

Jul 26

New Design For A Hop Filter

My original hop filter was a length of 15mm copper pipe with a series of 3mm holes drilled into it. The design seemed to be fine for my first 6 brews but on the 7th and 8th it kept getting blocked up by the hops, both brews consisted of a large number of Challenger hops …

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Jul 16

12v DC Pump For Wort Recirculation

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My new pump for recirculating mash and boiled wort. It is from Solar Projects and takes a 12v DC input, adapter from Maplin. The pump runs with a rate of 6L a minute and slows down if a decreased voltage is used. It’s a tiny unit and there’s a beer bottle here to show that.

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Jul 16

New Burner For My Brewery

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Just took delivery of this fancy Foker 3120 8.8kw cast iron gas ring. Hoping to get a Brakspear clone knocked out on it on Monday after the upgrades are carried out for brewing outside.

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