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Home Photo Galleries Equipment Galleries Ken Dodd • Lake Havasu City, Arizona

This is a frontal view of Ken’s system. From right to left, kettle, hot liquor tank, control panel, RIMS heaters and mash tun. All the valves are stainless steel.

This is a frontal view of Ken’s system. From right to left, kettle, hot liquor tank, control panel, RIMS heaters and mash tun. All the valves are stainless steel.

Front View
I tee off the valve before the filter to supply my custom made 1⁄2" immersion chiller (supplied by MoreBeer!). This bypasses the filter so no need to filter chiller water.

Chiller
This is the hot liquor tank. There is a small sampling valve tee'd the other way in case I need extra water for the boil.

Hot Liquor Tank
<p>This system is for steeping specialty grains and spices for meads. Zymico's &quot;no sparge thingie&quot; keeps grains held back. </p>

Little Guy
This is my Hobby Beverage Mini-mash tun. It has a false bottom with a sparge arm in lid. The basis for the RIMS comes from not being able to directly heat this tun. I keep an eye on the large thermometer for step infusion mashing. RIMS is turned on and off manually.

Hobby Beverage Mini-mash Tun
The heaters are similar to a heat exchanger. I use an aluminum plate which has 4 passes of wort flowing through 1⁄2&quot; copper tubing.

Exchange Plate
The brew kettle has a stainless steel check valve and downstream is a valve to slow the sparge, which normally takes 30 minutes.

Brew Kettle
I built this extract and mead system for the days when I don't feel like using the main 15-gallon system. It also doubles for decoction mashes.

Extract and Mead System


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