Welcome to your new home Brew Magic!
How are you going to chill? Did you get one of Sabco's ChillWizards too?...
Nope, he's going to sit back with a homebrew while the unit does the work and he'll say "I'm chillin like a villin"!
DC
No they want like $900 for one of those! I've had a Therminator for awhile now. So chillin' like a villan is old hat now. Well except last time I brewed a German Pilsner. It was 95 F outside and I couldn't chill it below 60. I should set up the immersion as a prechiller but summers almost over and the chest freezer actually brings it down pretty quick.
Very nice, Andrew. I'm sure this monster will brew you some great beer.
I just built my own brew stand using the dimensions of the Brew Magic as a reference. I won't have the electric controller, but what the hell I've only spent $150 on the whole thing so far! Cheers!
WOW. That is so cool. I am green with envy as well.
Yeah, I noticed it was pretty damn expensive...I have a cheapo therminator, the Shirron. I love the damn thing. I couldn't believe I saw rolling hot wort drop into the bucket at 62* within minutes....Plate Chillers rule!!!
Yeah I love being able to chill in minutes rather than an hour or more with the immersion. Still have the issue of hot break and trub going into the fermenter using a plate chiller. Next project will be a hop back that should alleviate this problem...well at least in beers that hop aroma is present. We will see how the false bottom in the brew kettle works for straining some of this out.
If you are a do-it-yourselfer, here's an easy fix to filter out hops and hot break prior to the chiller. I've brewed about 6 batches with it and it works wonderfully well with my homemade counter flow wort chiller. Not sure how such a homemade device would look, aesthetically speaking, if used with a masterpiece such as the Brew Magic, though. Cheers!
The hop stopper! I've been thinking about one of those for a long time. Glad to hear of your success with it. If the false bottom is inadequate I may just go that route. Thanks.
andrew jensen wrote:
The hop stopper! I've been thinking about one of those for a long time. Glad to hear of your success with it. If the false bottom is inadequate I may just go that route. Thanks.
If you are using whole hops then the false bottom should work well. But if you use pellets, you won't get much seperation.