Chiller testing 01 Dec, 2014 Testing the plate chiller. The temperature can be adjusted by either varying the amount of cooling water going through the chiller and / or adjusting the rate at which the beer comes out.



Beer out valve fitted 27 Oct, 2014 Fitted the manual beer out valve. Mounting it was a little challenging as the valve height was pretty much the same as the height of the shelf I was mounting it to.

Took the valve apart, marked out the holes, used a QMax cutter for the middle hole then drilled the others.

Very pleased with how it turned out given the tight tolerances involved.



Hop strainer and mash tun volume sensor 27 Oct, 2014 Finally ground down the mash tun filter enough for it to fit neatly in

the mash tun.

Also cut a channel for the mash volume measurement tube

to fit and then used a 6mm penny washer to cover the gap to avoid grain

escaping.

Was pleased with how neat this turned out given how difficult it was to measure where certain components needed to be.



Video: Mash Heat via HERMS coil 25 Jun, 2014 This shows the Brewtroller keeping the mash at the target temperature by switching between just recirculating it and reciruclating it via the HERMS coil. I set the HLT target to be 40.0C and the mash target to be 32.0C. It seems to be pretty accurate at holding the mash temperature, but I think the HLT temperature probe will need to be moved to get a more accurate reading of the HLT temperature and avoid overshoots.