Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

[Smbjk]

Nice work bush :handgestures-thumbupleft: well done :clap:

[CHEROKEE]

Great work Bushy,.........................envious. All grains are the go. (nice unit) :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[tipsy]

Nice one Bushy. :clap:

[Bushy]

Ran the rig a couple of days ago. Heres a pictorial result.
Heating up with the grain milled and waiting

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For my first mash I have gone with 5 kg of malted wheat, 5 kg of pale malt, 10 kg of wheat, 10 litres of the day befores backset and 52 litres of water. PH 4.8
While stirring the mash I use this marvel of engineering, called a 3 way valve, to direct the flow through the drain tube. Then once the flow clears up change it back to the spray bar.

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The final product was 42 litres of sweet smelling nectar with an OG of 1055. This was crash cooled in the kids pool then after a bit of aeration I added some whisky yeast and a little enzyme.

Happy so far :-D

Future runs will see me sparging this grain bed then using that to start another mash. I got buckets and freezers so why waste it.

Thanks to Mac for the idea and the valve and the pipe. And a special thanks to you all from Mrs Bushy " for making you finish the thing". She reckons I'd still be fuckin the dog if not for the challenge. Go figure.

[Smbjk]

Well done bushy. Looks fantastic beautiful looking mashtun :handgestures-thumbupleft: alot of allgrain beer brewers would be very jealous with that kind of rig. You gunna make some beer :D

[Brendan]

That's brilliant Bushy, I'm very impressed with your setup :clap:

You'll be making some fine all grain spirits now!

Think I'm going to have to build one in the future now :doh:

[Hava]

Hey guys, has anyone used these for corn mashes. It's the best design I've seen, but curious as to how it handles corn mashing at the gelatinous stage? Or is it a case of, don't even go there with it and stick to steel boiler?

[MacStill]

It's the best design I've seen

For now :teasing-neener:

MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA

:silent:

[Brendan]

It's the best design I've seen

For now :teasing-neener:

MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA

:silent:

SOON...? :))

[MacStill]

SOON...? :))

Well it wont be 6 weeks :teasing-neener:

[Bushy]

It's the best design I've seen

For now :teasing-neener:

MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA

:silent:

Well c'mon then. Throwin out little teasers aint gonna impress us. Photos will though.

[MacStill]

You know me Bushy, I'll be posting pics in a new thread as soon as I can mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Should be around the first week in march, you've already seen the pump havnt you ?

[Bushy]

Nah. Not last i saw you. But i will be takin the first week in march off. Rubbing hands together in anticipation.

[MacStill]

Check it out here :D