Creeps Goes Conical!

[Bonsai & Brew 5,953]

Would this work?

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

11 hours ago, Bonsai & Brew said:

Would this work?

You crazy

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

Cant wait to get home!!!

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

Here it is!!!!

heres the bunk bed i put together tonight instead of assembling my conical. Im still a dad people, geez give me a break

[Bonsai & Brew 5,953]

1 hour ago, Creeps McLane said:

Here it is!!!!

heres the bunk bed i put together tonight instead of assembling my conical. Im still a dad people, geez give me a break

 

I will be the first to admit, you got me there with that one, Creeps.  Good work man!

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

Alright... version 2.0

 

Couldnt get the sight glass under the conical like i wanted. I wanted to harvest yeast in it but the legs aren’t tall enough to do so. Of course, they want you to buy their leg extensions. I dont play those game. A little lumber and some screws later and I raised it just where i need it.

 

moved the chiller so my hand isnt smacking it when using the hoist. Moved the pump which included rotating the pump head 180 degrees. 

swithched the thermometer and recirculating valve on my kettle to make the valve closer to my pump also. Should be good to go now. 

 

 

i also emailes the guy who made my mash and boil controller and asked if he could add a mash PID to the 240v boil controller. He said “no problem” and $50 later im officially a BIAB brewer. 

 

my last concern was that my raised false bottom was resting ever so slightly on my heating element. I dustes off my old false bottom, threw that in my kettle with my current false bottom and now it sits just above the element. Many problems solved tonight

 

 

[hotrod3539 911]

looks great! 

[Creeps McLane 6,441]

@kedogn

 

using a conical, when do you dump trub? How many times?  When is a good time to harvest the yeast?

[kedogn 2,643]

50 minutes ago, Creeps McLane said:

using a conical, when do you dump trub? How many times?  When is a good time to harvest the yeast?

If I am going to harvest (which I haven't done in a long time) I will drop trub the first time ~24 hours after its been in the conical.  This is typically your dead cells, proteins, hop particles, grain bits and so on that you don't want.  I then let the rest do its thing, then once I hit FG, I drop a very little more out, then I harvest the rest and go from there

If I don't plan to harvest yeast, I will just wait until I hit FG and then dump all at once.  Very rarely do I have beers that go longer than 7-10 days to get to FG. 

Most beers take about 7 days, then I drop out about a gallon (or try, sometimes I end up not closing the valve in time).  I DH.  When DH is done, since I always bag my DH, I pull the bags and then move the conical to the cold room to sit for 7-10 days.  At that point I drop one last time, then keg.