Stainless Fermentor Side Blow-off and Gas-in Assembly

As the complexity of my brewing goes up, Nathan always seems to be one step ahead of me with all the correct parts and fittings. Thank you for excellent customer service, as always.

Overall, I am very impressed with the quality and innovative design and construction of the BIAC. It works as advertised and very well. The small foot print, low cost startup, and modularity are huge sellers, but the system is capable of making Professional level, world-class beer. I would like for Brewha to improve on a handful of things though. The system is not fully committed to the scale of brewing at a professional level (even for nano-breweries). One example is the tiny carbonation stone included with the all the systems no matter the size. A 5 bbl fermenter/brite tank should include a minimum of a 6 inch carbonation stone. The placement of the ports makes it difficult to incorporate this, even from a third party supplier. The system also needs a safety shutoff switch that can be mounted remotely. During a brew day the brewery is often on top of a ladder or platform to manage the brewing process. Because of this, in an emergency, there is no quick way to make it to the power panel to shut off the system. The level sensor included with it only controls the pump in order to "protect" the heating elements, but it should shutoff the heating elements if the level gets to low, since this could occure independently of pump operation. Hopefully our future purchases of BIACS will have some Professional scale improvements, but either way, we'll still be making awesome beer with them here at JAKL Beer Works.

Overall, I am very impressed with the quality and innovative design and construction of the BIAC. It works as advertised and very well. The small foot print, low cost startup, and modularity are huge sellers, but the system is capable of making Professional level, world-class beer. I would like for Brewha to improve on a handful of things though. The system is not fully committed to the scale of brewing at a professional level (even for nano-breweries). One example is the tiny carbonation stone included with the all the systems no matter the size. A 5 bbl fermenter/brite tank should include a minimum of a 6 inch carbonation stone. The placement of the ports makes it difficult to incorporate this, even from a third party supplier. The system also needs a safety shutoff switch that can be mounted remotely. During a brew day the brewery is often on top of a ladder or platform to manage the brewing process. Because of this, in an emergency, there is no quick way to make it to the power panel to shut off the system. The level sensor included with it only controls the pump in order to protect the heating elements, but it should shutoff the heating elements if the level gets to low, since this could occure independently of pump operation. Hopefully our future purchases of BIACS will have some Professional scale improvements, but either way, we'll still be making awesome beer with them here at JAKL Beer Works.