Electric Brewing System

Here’s my Electric HERMS Brewing system that I built over the last few years. I’m running a custom control panel that is powered by a Raspberry Pi running CraftBeerPi. The feed 50A and I can run the HLT and Boil Kettle at the same time.

Features:

• Custom control panel with:
  • Raspberry Pi 3B running CraftBeerPi 4.0
  • Tarragedy/Cherry Philip control board
  • 3x Adafruit PT100 RTD MAX31865 Temperature Sensor Amplifier
  • 2x 40A SSR for the heating elements
  • 2x 20A SSR for the pumps
  • 2x dual pole breakers for heating elements
  • 3x single pole breakers for pump1, pump2 and control power
  • 2x dual pole contactors for heating elements
  • Emergency stop
  • Heat Sinks for SSRs
  • Panel mount buzzer for alarms
  • Panel mount LED Light to show when Heating elements are on
  • Panel mount Wifi antenna and USB Wifi dongle
• Boil Kettle
  • 5500W Heating Element
  • Tri Clover recirculation arm
  • Tri Clover pickup and valve
  • Stainless Hop basket
• Mash Tun
  • SS False Bottom
  • Tri Clover arm with Loc-Line flexible fluid for recirculation
  • Tri Clover pickup and valve
• Hot Liquor Tank
  • 5500W Heating Element
  • Tri Clover recirculation arm
  • Tri Clover pickup and valve
  • Lid with built in Tri Clover HERMS tube (can be used as immersion chiller after boil)
• 2x Chugger pumps with Stainless pumps on custom stands
• 7 Gallon Stout Tanks Conical fermenter
• 5 Gallon and 1.75 gallon corny kegs
• 20lb and 5lb CO2 tanks and regulators
• Custom Rolling cart with wood top and mount for the panel
• Touchscreen PC to display the CraftBeerPi web interface and Brewfather recipe
• Capability to import the beer.xml files from Brewfather and run on the CraftBeerPi interface