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That's a sweet setup bro!!! 👌
Thanks man! I appreciate it 🍻🍻🍻
Great setup, I just bought a similar Ss kit and I'd love to see a video of how you clean your system! 🍻
Hey William, awesome man! Thanks for the feedback. I'll include the cleaning portion in my next video. Cheers!
That is an awesome setup
Thank you! My new system is far better, but this one was fun while it lasted 🙌🍻
You should do a cleaning video on your system, unless you already have.
I’ll be posting a full cleaning walk-through soon! Likely in the next week or two 🍻
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Gracias! Salud amigo 🍻
Very clean looking setup, looking at doing something similar with a gas/electric 30 gal system
Thanks, Scott! That’d b awesome. Let me know if you ever have any questions 🍻
hey Ryan Amazing brewhouse. Do you have a full list of the pieces and parts of your configuration? I want to buy the ss brewtech 10-gallon kit, I see some parts in your configuration but not all that is sold in the 10 gall kit is included in your configuration. I appreciate any recommendations or feedback 🙏🏾 thanks.
Sorry for my bad english,
I would have liked to see the side linked to the heating of the mashing and boiling vat, in my system to avoid having the resistance blocking the filter plate I added a side resistance, further away see how you have arranged your heating system?
Hi Raffaele, I’m sorry, I don’t fully understand your question. Are you referring to the heating process for the mash tun and boil kettle?
Yes
Oh ok. I use electric heating elements for the mash tun and kettle. The mash tun uses a RIMs tube which is a small heating element made by Ss Brewtech. It connects to my controller and regulates temperature. I have a “Brewhouse tour” video up on my page now if you’d like to see a full tour of my equipment. I’m happy to answer any questions 🍻
Amazing setup!
Did you compose it or it's a complete kit?
Cheers🍻
Great videos. Nice job on the video quality and editing. I second a comment below requesting a dedicated video on cleaning your system. Also how do you like the Brew Cubes? Cheers!
Thanks so much! I’m uploading a cleaning video in the next week or two. Cheers!
Great video Ryan! What type of connectors are you using for your plate Chiller? I can see two types
Thanks Carlos! These are quick-disconnects from Bargain Fittings : www.bargainfittings.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=51_55
What a setup! Just wondering how long a brew day takes? Inclusive of start up to fully finished cleaning? Thanks for sharing your gear. I think a lot of us wish we had the same....
Thanks, Andrew! I have a lot of fun on it. Usually a brew day is about 6 hours including cleaning
So mash recirculation goes through 2 pumps?
Yea exactly. Not required, just makes my setup a little more efficient
Hey Ryan, great video. I purchased the filter grant since it looked like a nice gadget to add. It looks like you’re going from your pump through filter, into chiller then out to fermenter. It seems like you will be left with the filter grant full of wort as once the pump gets through all the liquid there is nothing to force the remaining wort out of the grant and theough the chiller to the fermenter. Can you confirm this or let me know how your getting all the wort?
My setup is almost finished…if you don’t mind my asking, what is the sight glass connecting into before the bottom left pump? I see the micro tee but what is the tee connected too? Wondering if one of the valves that came with the tree would work 🤔🤔🤔
Hey Jeff, awesome! On the micro tee, that is a check valve. Its not really necessary since I have a valve on the HLT, but it just prevents wort from flowing up that tube. On the outbound side of that pump, I have a ball valve before the RIMs tube.
How much money it was invested in that beauty?
Hey Ivan, I’m not too sure to be honest. Most of my equipment is from Ss Brewtech. There are a bunch of gear kits on the website. A lot of my tubing/fittings/clamps etc are from many different sources that I have accumulated over the years, but all commonly available
Did you buy the SS brew tech 10 gal rims kit, or buy all the parts individually
Most of this setup is pieced together. I’m not exactly sure what all comes in the kit, but I think there is an “essential kit” that comes with some extra tubing and fittings
Great video and breakdown. One question - what's that TC fitting between the T of the first pump and the HLT hose, specifically the bulbus SS looking piece just before the T.
Thank you! That’s a check valve. Just used to prevent wort from flowing into the HLT if I ever left the valve open
@@ryanmichaelcarter Ah - of course. Thanks for the clarification. You've had the setup for what....7 months now (at least since you made that tour video) - how've you been liking it thus far?
Ryan, amazing videos! I have been looking at the same set up and I wonder if I should go with the 5 gal or 10 gal Kit. I am guessing from the videos yours is the 10 gal with the 20 Gal vessels and 14 gal Unitank. Did you have the Glycol Chiller from the beginning? Cheers!
Hey Alberto, thanks so much! I use a 10 gal setup (for 5 gal batches) and 7 gal unitanks. I did not have a glycol chiller for the first 5-6 years of brewing, but started using one about 4 years ago
What size mesh are you using on the filter that is inline before your plate chiller?
Hey Eric, it is 100 mesh.
Is it hard to clean the entire system?
Hey Todd, it’s does take some time but not too much work. After each brew, I’ll recirculate cleaner through all of my tubing and kettle to clean the majority but it still takes some hand cleaning afterwards
Great setup. For the PID do you have it set on auto tune or self tune? I am having some trouble with getting to temp and holding temp in the mash ton (RIMS) for my strike water. How long does it normally take for you to get to strike temp in your mash ton while circulating through RIMS?
I run the auto tune every once in a while. It’s important to run that during the actual process (for the RIMS, make sure you have grain/water in the MT.. for the HLT, fill it with a normal volume of water.)
I heat my strike water in the HLT first, so when it hits the MT it’s already at temp. The HLT takes about 20 mins to get to temp (I heat strike volume first, then do the Sparge water separately)
Thanks Ryan. I've had my SS Brewtech 3v eRims system for almost a year now, and I'm just getting to setting it up (real life gets in the way of fun sometimes!)
So do I understand it right that you send your MT recirc through the primary pump, then over to the inlet of the HLT pump to feed the RIMs and back into the MT? I'm guessing that's so you don't have to do a hose switch to start lautering. Do you run both pumps when mashing? Or do you just push through the HLT pump?
Thanks so much for the videos! They've gotten me fired up to get my 3V system working (I have a BrewHa 1/2 BBL system as well, so it was easy to just put off getting my smaller system up and running.)
Hey Clay, awesome! And yes, you are correct. I have it configured that way so I don’t need to mess with any hoses during brew day. When I’m mashing, I only use the second pump under the mash tun. I use the HLT pump when transferring water to the mash tun, otherwise, it’s off
Do you have a flow chart/diagram? Video was a little fast and even with pausing and screen shots it’s hard to follow. Also did you have an issue with your check valve? Gravity to check valve isn’t pushing water through
Sorry no diagram but I have a full walk through video here of my current system (Spike Trio brewhouse). How is your check valve oriented? It shouldn’t take much force to get flow through
@@ryanmichaelcarter one could only hope haha. I’ve watched the ss and spike videos 1000 times and still getting lost. Check valve was backwards at first, fixed that. But it’s the spring loaded one not the swinging door, so there still wasn’t enough pressure. I replaced that. Now I’m just lost on hooking MT to the tree and second pump to control the rest.
@@ryanmichaelcarter alright well I figured out my flow I think.
@@ryanmichaelcarter only issue I seem to be having now (outside of closing valves on the tree but that will come with time) is my whirlpool, it’s pretty much all bubbles. I have blichmann pumps with the PRV to bleed the lines of oxygen, but it’s still bubbles. No matter the flow rate. And because of that no sling
@@grbrewing are you talking about the outbound side of your pump? What’s installed between the drain of your BK and the inlet to the pump? Also, when attempting to Whirlpool, the knockout/drain in the BK is fully submerged in wort, correct?
I can't remember if this was addressed in any other vid, but what brewing software are you using???....Brewfather seems to make it annoying for anyone with 3-vessel systems....
Hey Marc, I use BeerSmith
Thanks.....I completely forgot about the Smith.........The shame!!!
@@marchitchcock4090 Its an awesome program!
Hey man...love the setup...so much so that I'm buying all the stuff to build my own...what size tube and hose barb are you using for the tree? and the site glass as well?
Hey Jeff, thanks man! I have a lot of fun on this thing. I use all 1/2-inch silicone tubing and the barb fittings are 1.5-inch TC to 1/2-inch barb. The sight glass is 1-inch
@@ryanmichaelcarter Awesome...thanks dooood...
@@frey311 Anytime! Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers!
What size U-brackets are you using to hold your filter up?
Hey Jeff, those are 4-inch brackets that I found at Lowes. I put a strip of rubber inbetween the filter-body and bracket for some extra grip.
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Thanks man…I’m getting excited to start brewing on this…hope you don’t mind all these questions…cheers
What check valve are you using and where did you get it?
It is a swing check valve. Someone gave me the one I use, but here is a similar valve on Amazon amzn.to/3rFKpsP
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Another question for you Ryan.....I have all components connected. I have a similar T to the first pump to utilize the HLT and the sight glass recirc. My question is, how do you ensure that HLT water gets into and out of the first pump with your set-up??....It appears that your first T has not valves...I do see a valve at the pump "out" which would need to be open. But it seems like pumping your HLT would shoot right up into your sight glass which comes to the same T......Or I am supremely missing something...lol
Hey Marc, the HLT water feeds the inlet of the first pump by gravity. I open up the HLT valve on my kettle and it flows down to the pump. The reason it doesn't flow into the Mash Recirculation path (top left sight glass on the tree) is because that valve is closed. The tubing section between the pump and the recirc valve is full of air and will not let fluid in.
@@ryanmichaelcarter And sense is made....Lolol...Thanks man..👍
@@marchitchcock4090 Anytime! Cheers man
@@marchitchcock4090 Anytime!
Ryan!!...Help!!!....I have a 3V controller setup like yours.....What I can't seem to find for the life of me is a diagram for actually plugging everything in....I have two dedicated 30 amp 240s and several other outlets....But SS seems to hide this part and has no Quick Start guide for the 3V eController......Have you ever seen a diagram for this???....Or know an easy explanation???
Hey Marc, on the 3V there are three separate controllers-- HLT, Boil Kettle, and Mash Tun (from left to right). The cables coming from the bottom are all in the same order from left to right. The power OUTPUTS are on the front and the power INPUTS are toward the rear. There are only 2 30A inputs because the Boil Kettle and Mash Tun are on the same circuit.
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Thanks Ryan...I figured it out...What was more frustrating was the not-so-Quick Start and schematics they use. Plus the length of the cords is a wee bit short which complicates things..
It's seems that your really need the tree to make sense of it and keep from disconnecting and switching Valles everywhere....They could do a MUCH better job with guides...
@@marchitchcock4090 Hey Marc, awesome! Glad you got it figured out. Are you running a RIMs setup as well? Yea I agree, the guides could be done a lot better
Yes....RIMs included...And now, here comes the valve tree...Hopefully that will make it all flow better....As long as I don't read the instructions...
Unfortunately... this is making me rethink my whole setup... now I have to build this... in the 20gal capacity. Very curious about that table setup though, haha. It's like the perfect size and look for everything, what is that?
Hey Zachary, it's a fun system for sure! The table/frames my kettles are sitting on are called Brew Cubes from Ss brewtech. They all bolt together and have a bunch of different accessories you can get for them.
@@ryanmichaelcarter perfect! My first thought was that they were by SS Brewtech because they look so purpose-built. Thanks for the reply. Excited for more content
@@ZachyB117 They are pretty awesome! One of my favorite pieces of gear. Thanks man! Let me know if there's every any specific content you'd like to see. Cheers!
Do you happen to know of any reliable dissertations on the functions and value definitions of the Omron econtroller???.....I have a 3V and unlocked the thing with the left-two button press. But I do not recognize any of the values I see...They are overly abbreviated and seemingly senseless. Frustrating that they ship these things with so little guidance.
Hey Marc, yea its kinda an outdated system and not the easiest to program. Adjusting the settings programmed in the Omron can get really squirley and its difficult to reset if anything gets messed up. Is there something specific you are attempting to change in the settings?
@@ryanmichaelcarter Hadn't realized its age...I am literally just looking to get self-learning through PID...But I never get there....
hey Ryan Amazing brewhouse. Do you have a full list of the pieces and parts of your configuration? I want to buy the ss brewtech 10-gallon kit, I see some parts in your configuration but not all that is sold in the 10 gall kit is included in your configuration. I appreciate any recommendations or feedback 🙏🏾 thanks.
Thanks so much! I have most of the extra parts in my Amazon shop (www.amazon.com/shop/ryanmichaelcarter/list/Q081LNI0MZOW?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfryanmichaelcarter). My current brewhouse is a 15-gallon Tank Trio from Spike Brewing- much better system than my old Ss system. I have a tour video here on my channel if you’re interested