After building several systems for friends I thought it was time to build a new system for myself. I had to go one better and build a system out of stainless steel, including the frame amd piping. The tri-clovers on the keg are made from the neck of kegs, with a gasket and clamp. The tri-clovers in the piping are made from two end caps that are bored and a half coupler tig welded onto the cap. Add a gasket and clamp and you have an inline tri-clover at a cost of about $20.00 compared to one half of a purchased fitting of $55.00.
The system can be broken down into parts of no longer than 24 inches for cleaning. The Mash tun has an adjustable return ring so you can set it for mash height. The coil in the HLT is copper because of heat transfer. The coil has a bypass valve so you can avoid the coil and maintain temperature. The temperature is monitored by a gauge coming out of the coil at the sight glass, which is also homemade. At present the boil pot and HLT are gas fired but an electric HLT tank is being built and may replace the present tank.
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