The brew system pictured here is, hopefully, the last one I’ll have to build for myself.  One “glaring” mistake was to polish the stainless out too much. Otherwise, it’s an easy cleanup. I’ve been an all-grain guy for over 15 years and have used 3-vessel systems for most of that time.

This system uses a 1 ¼” stainless square tubing frame, three Vollrath’s stainless steel aluminum-clad 15-gallon vessels, a very large March pump and a Shirron plate chiller. All of the fittings are custom-made (I’m a machinist) and polished. Most of the connections are sanitary for easy removal and cleanup. The larger, 3B burners are ignited by Quikliters, from Channel Products. The funny looking thing standing behind the mash tun is one of my smaller hopbacks. Wort is pumped through vertically before reaching the chiller. 

The non-traditional configuration of the vessels, while making a deeper footprint, allows me to spin the HLT and drop make-up water into the boil kettle. The weird looking fitting at the end of the HTL valve is a custom-made 3/8” flared elbow that allows a direct connection to the stainless steel twirly sparge wand and provides a hard point for mounting the stainless RIM ring doodad.