I'm Back!! (08)

Hi all...

Sorry once again for not keeping up with this thing, but I had a heck of a busy year! But now...I'm back!!!

An awful lot has been going on with the home brewery lately and a lot of great beers have been made. During my blogger absence, we have brewed IPA's US and English, ESB's, a real nice Southern English Brown Ale and with the 2nd runnings an award winning Dark Mild, (won 2 gold 1st place medals in 2 different competitions), APA's, Porter's, Wit's, Amber Ale and more!

I'll be kegging and bottling an American Brown tomorrow (10 gallon batch) and am in the middle of conditioning another one of my American Pale Ale's.

I'm also in the middle of re-configuring the plumbing for the brewery and have recently added some simple automation to the brew kettle by attaching an ASCO solinoid valve with a pilot to control water temps of the HERMS. I have done away with all of my copper coils and have replaced them with Stainless Steel coils both in the Conical Fermenter and in the Boil Kettle. I have also gone to all stainless steel fittings and I only have 2 brass fittings left on the entire system!

In postings to come I'll post new photo's of the brewery, including the plumbing schematic, and more information about my processes and how I put this rig together.

I have also met many new homebrewing friends, and have had the pleasure to brew with them at my place and at theirs too!

I'll be taking some pictures real soon once the plumbing has been completed, (still waiting for parts), complete with explainations.

So...until then.....Brew On!!

Wotta (_)3