Jason Chmura's Home Brewing Chronicals: May 2010

The New Electric Bow Tie Brewery Build

I have been considering the merits of going electric with my brewery for quite a while and after some close review of some threads online and some amazing help with a great man, Paul Muth, I was ready to take the dive into the potentially lethal brewing set up to make BETTER BEER!

Starting out I had to make sure that I had the correct tools, parts and wiring to accomplish the task:

Here is the room where the brewery will be housed: Nothing special its just my Mud room that really never is used... A perfect place for my brewery since it has a dryer outlet receptacle already there.

Already had a utility sink but it needed to be beefed up quite a bit: (More on that later)

Now there was the matter of the parts needed for this build... Rather than listing them all for a dual element set up, I'll just say that there are a lot of parts from many vendors as well as custom parts from Mr. Muth. Here are the ULWD Camco 4500w elements that will go inside of the BK and the HLT.

The control Box while looking like a rats nest of wires came out pretty good

Here is the first test run just powering up the PIDs and testing the outlets...

Success! It lives!!! One small issue... when I turn on the switch for the pump or the Motor both the pump and motor turn on and are not independent from one another... I'll have to look into that...

More on that later...

Now for the brew room... you saw that it was all disheveled and really no semblance of anything... well here's some more of that...

Through these doors... lies salvation... and good beer!