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[Robmay]

Eagle,

You sir, are a wild man. 

[EAGLE1]

So are you running a RIM heating setup? I would assume so with the inverted keg. Like you mentioned the Guinness keg is only one of a few that is threaded. So if anyone looking to follow your design you need to check out the keg you want to use.

Craig

I was for a while, but grain was getting stuck in the chamber and getting burnt on the heating element, had to completely take it apart and spend an hour cleaning it, so I just started heating from below, it don't take much to maintain temp only if you want to raise it significantly. when I mix my the water and grain, I  calculate the strike temp of the water so when they are mixed I reach 152 deg. and then I just maintain with a small burner, and once you do it a few times repeating it is real easy. I am working on making the stainless chamber that housed the electric element into a flow through design by wrapping the outside with some High-Temperature Heat Tape, you need about 1200 watts to maintain temp, so I'm still looking for the right stuff, but until then this is working great.

The Guinness keg was a real find, the thread is some bastard European pitch that I could not get any of my American or metric pitch gages to fit, so we experimented until we matched it up.

[EAGLE1]

Eagle,

You sir, are a wild man. 

     

I do it all for the sake of "BEER"

[Talon]

So do you recirculate when mashing to keep from scorching the wort between the screen and the bottom of the keg?

[EAGLE1]

So do you recirculate when mashing to keep from scorching the wort between the screen and the bottom of the keg?

The flame is so low to maintain temp I have never scorched the wort or the bottom of the mash tun. I recirculate for many reasons, but the number one reason is to equalize the temp of the wort, it helps accelerate the conversion time, and it allows me to set the grain bed to get a clear run during sparge.
and yes, moving the wort does keep it from sitting in one place and possibly scorching

[bellpepper]

of all the places i have traveled the best beer i have tried has been from "great lakes brewery" out of cleveland ohio, "st. arnold's" in houston, tx is also quite tasty.

bellpepper of bartlett, tn

[EAGLE1]

of all the places i have traveled the best beer i have tried has been from "great lakes brewery" out of cleveland ohio, "st. arnold's" in houston, tx is also quite tasty.

bellpepper of bartlett, tn

Great Lakes, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is damn tasty 

[EAGLE1]

 

[EAGLE1]

I think he swallowed the whole keg   

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[Talon]

 

[Talon]

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[EAGLE1]