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Home Photo Galleries Equipment Galleries Tom Hart • Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tom Hart was a co-founder and served for 7 years as the head brewer of the Rio Grande Brewing Company, where he earned two medals at the Great American Beer Festival. He built his home brewery after returning to his work as a Presbyterian minister.

The steam jacket of each kettle is heated with a 150,000-BTU liquid propane jet burner. These burners are suspended from the stand’s frame on adjustable brackets to optimize their output.

Adjustable Jet Burner
The temperature of the two 25-gallon conical fermenters is controlled by a glycol system. Glycol is recalculated, and held in an Igloo cooler at a specified temperature, by the Beer Line Chiller. This glycol is pumped out of the cooler and through copper, immersion coils suspended in each fermenter. The pumps that control this cooling loop are each regulated by a Ranco temperature controller that can be set to the desired fermentation temperature.

Fermentation Set-Up
The rolling brewery rig consists of two steam kettles: a 60-gallon (228-L) HLT and a 40-gallon (152-L) kettle/mash cooker. The 35-gallon (133-L) mash/lauter tun pivots to dump its spent grain and doubles as a whirlpool. Both gravity and a stainless steel centrifugal pump are utilized to transfer liquid.

Full Rig

Hydrometer2
The mash/lauter tun is set-up to dump its spent grain into a wheelbarrow for easy removal.

Mash/Lauter Tun Dumping
Tom Hart was a co-founder and served for 7 years as the head brewer of the Rio Grande Brewing Company, where he earned two medals at the Great American Beer Festival. He built his home brewery after returning to his work as a Presbyterian minister.

The Brewpastor
When stored, everything fits in the front 2/3 of half a garage. The van gets the other third.

The Sanctuary
The motorized two roller mill was inspired by a salvaged highway sign. The hopper holds 30 pounds (13.5 kg ) of grain and the 4” diameter rollers are adjustable for control of the crush.

Two Roller Mill


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