Noise Extraction and Brewing

Noisebridge Extraction and Brewing

Available (or soon to be available) Setups

Note: All equipment is made from lab grade borosilicate glass

Noise Tower "Little John"

• 3L 5 neck round bottom flask (24/40 joints and 29/42 joints)
• 3L heating mantle
• Variac for heating mantle control
• Vacuum jacketed distilling column w/ ~0.4" internal diameter
• Beryl saddle packing for distilling column
• "Thumper" to fit 0.5" glass joints
• 0.5" distilling head with ball valve reflux control
• 0.5" high efficiency condenser
• 0.5" distillation receiver and connecting glass

Noise Tower "Friar Tuck"

• 22L 5 neck round bottom flask (29/42 joints and 45/50 joints)
• 22L heating mantle
• 1 Variac for heating mantle control
  • A second Variac is needed!
• 6 stage 1" inner diameter plate distillation column (no packing needed)
• 1" inner diameter distilling adapter with needle valve reflux control
• 1" inner diameter coil condenser

• No receiver is available for this size, but the distilling adapter ends in a 0.75" compression fitting, so something could be fashioned if needed
• No thumper is available for this size

Purification / Aging Equipment

• 6L capacity glass frit filters (used to support a packed carbon bed)
• 500mL capacity glass frit filters
• 2x 19L glass carboys for storage/cleanup w/ rubber plugs
• No activated carbon is available in the space
• Filtering through the glass frits without using vacuum takes forever...we should probably devise a better solution
  • Potential better idea: construct a column out of pvc pipe with a hose barb at the bottom. Carbon granules must be big enough to do this though
• Some means to stir the contents of the carboys for aging would be awesome

Condenser Loop Equipment

• We need to buy an aquarium pump and enough adapters to allow 1/4" ID flexible tubing to attach to the pump

Test and Monitoring Equipment

• 6x hydrometers for rating specific gravities from 0.8 - 0.95 in 0.001 increments
• 2x K type thermocouples w/ glassware adapters.
• 2 channel battery operated thermocouple display
• We need a glass sample cylinder

Brewing Equipment

• 2x 19L glass carboys for w/ rubber plugs
• No Turbo-yeast is available in the space
• No Airlocks available
• No temperature control equipment is available in the space. This could become a problem when we try to make large batches, but maybe it won't
• Currently, mouth siphoning is the only way to move liquid from vessel to vessel - this is a sterility concern for brewing

Safety Equipment

• Silicone mat for "Little John" tower
• A heat proof platform needs to be made for the "Friar Tuck" tower to prevent accidentally burning the floor
• We needz a dedicated fire entinguisher for the setup - it can be a tiny one, but it should be rated for electrical fires