Electric brewing progress...

Here is a pic with the control panel lit up. I fried the volt and amp meters. I had checked the dc voltage before plugging them in but apparently one of my mounting screws was grounding out the converters. New meters are on the way. Luckily I can brew without those, it's just nice to have them to see what is going on.

Pics and Update on the Electric Brewery

Finished wiring up the box, everything works except I have the wrong relays. New ones are on the way. Parts are in to convert the kettles. It will be a lot of work to get it all finished.

Here are some pics:

Cana Pale Ale (11 Gallon Batch)

Ingredients-

Grain:
20 lbs 10oz 2 Row Pale Malt
3 lbs Carahell
1 lb 10oz Munich

Hops:
2 oz CTZ @ 60
1 oz Cascade @ 5
4 oz Mt Hood in Hop Back
4 oz Mt hood Dry Hop in Secondary

Yeast:
Safale-05 in half
White Labs in half (slurry)

Additives:
2 ml of 88% Lactic Acid to Mash (brought down to a pH of 5.2)

OG: 1.054

01SEP2012- This is a batch brewed for with our homebrew club. Half will go to the club and half to me. Things went fairly well but the CFC got clogged when we switched out the hops in the hops back. We'll let it ferment for about a week then transfer to secondary and add dry hops.

Electric Brewing

A little while ago I was looking at the idea of moving to a RIMS or HERMS system. I had started doing some stuff towards a RIMS system when I came across theelectricbrewery.com. This was exactly the thing I was looking for so I started selling off stuff and purchasing parts. The pics below are my progress so far. I still need to sell a bunch of my old brewing stuff before I can complete the build. Hopefully it'll happen soon so I can get back to brewing.

Smoky Smokerson (mini batch)

Ingredients-

Grain:
3.5 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
0.5 lb Special B
0.5 lb Smoked Malt
0.5 lb Crystal 40L

Hops:
1.5 oz Cascade @ 60
1 oz Cascade @ 30 
1 oz Cascade @ 5


OG: 1.061

Yeast: 1.056 Slurry

18JUN2012- Decided last minute to brew a small 2 gallon batch on my mini system. I felt like trying something smoky, may have gone a little overboard, we'll see.

Baby Drool IPA (10 Gallon Batch)

Ingredients-

Grain:
24 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
3 lbs Crystal 40L
2 lbs ESB malt

Hops:
2 oz CTZ @ 75
1 oz CTZ @ 30
3 oz CTZ @ 5
2 oz Citra @ 5
4 oz CTZ dry hop in Secondary for 7 days
4 oz Citra dry hop in tertiary for 7 days

Yeast: 1056 American Ale (slurry round 2)

OG: 1.072

Extras: 2 Small drops of pure baby drool

28MAY2012- My brother-in-law, Bryan, was running out of beer and since we both had memorial day off we decided to brew. Bryan was holding his daughter over the brew kettle to smell the hops when some drool fell out of her mouth and into the beer, hence the name. Everything went fantastic except when chilling the pump was starting to make some funny sounds. We let it run via gravity through the CFC while we took the pump apart. Even with proper rinsing it had gotten gummed up with too much sugar. Once cleaned thoroughly we put it back together and ran like a champ. Efficiency up  to 72% now. A little bit of recirculation fixed the problem. Can't wait to try it, but with the dry hop schedule it's gonna be a while longer than usual.

07JUN2012- Down to 1.014 for an ABV of 7.6%. Added 4 oz of CTZ and will let it sit til next week then add the Citra.

14JUN2012- 4oz of Citra added. No gravity taken. I'll wait one week and bottle half and keg the other half.

05JUL2012- Waited a little longer than I had planned to bottle but finally got it done. At least the first half anyway. This half was down to 1.010 for an ABV of 8.1%. Tastes really awesome, can't wait til it's carbed.

29JUL2012- This is the best IPA I have ever made!

Molasses Cider

Ingredients-

Fermentables:
4 Gallons TreeTop Apple Juice
12 oz Molasses (full flavor)

Yeast:
Red Star Pasteur Champagne

OG: 1.066

21MAY2012- Down to 1.012, transferred to keg.