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Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:13 pm
by Smbjk
Nice work bush :handgestures-thumbupleft: well done :clap:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:30 pm
by CHEROKEE
Great work Bushy,.........................envious. All grains are the go. (nice unit) :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:28 am
by tipsy
Nice one Bushy. :clap:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:43 am
by 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.

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:10 am
by 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

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:11 am
by 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:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:46 pm
by 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?

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:57 pm
by MacStill
Hava wrote:It's the best design I've seen


For now :teasing-neener:

MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA

:silent:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:09 pm
by Brendan
MacStill wrote:
Hava wrote:It's the best design I've seen


For now :teasing-neener:

MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA

:silent:


SOON...? :))

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:15 pm
by MacStill
Brendan wrote:
SOON...? :))


Well it wont be 6 weeks :teasing-neener:

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:57 pm
by Bushy
MacStill wrote:
Hava wrote: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.

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:59 pm
by 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 ?

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:02 pm
by Bushy
Nah. Not last i saw you. But i will be takin the first week in march off. Rubbing hands together in anticipation.

Re: Bushy's 6 week HERMS challenge

PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:06 pm
by MacStill
Check it out here :D