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Home Photo Galleries Equipment Galleries Edwin Farr • Blakeslee, Pennsylvania

The main component of Edwin’s system that makes it different is that it only has two vessels, can be continuously sparged and works off one pump for the whole system.


System
The system has a backwash function in the event of a stuck mash. The whole setup cost about $800 in materials to design and build (although he already had the pots and burner).

Backwash
“I mash by adding heated water in kettle and preheat the mash tun. Then I add grains, stir and start recirculation with a PID controlled heat stick. You can step mash but you can only go up 2 °F (1 °C) per min with my current heat stick,” he said.

Mash
The pump is a March and can be restricted with the shut off valves on the output side of the pump. “Once all the sparge water is in the mash tun, I turn off the PID and pump and drain the rest of the wort into a bucket.”

Pump
“I use pump and hoses going into brew bucket to pump wort back into the kettle. As the level gets low I spray some more water in the bucket so I don't miss any of that good sugar! (If I don't, the pump will go dry and I will lose about a cup of wort — not a big deal but I like to get it all).”

Wort Pump


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