Borret
Crazy Eye's Brewery
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Well I can't afford a Rubbermaid or similar as yet so here is the cooler/mash tun that Borret........made.
Yes it's essentially a bucket which unlike an expensive 5 gallon round cooler actually holds 23 litres rather than 19 which will certainly do me in the short term. Fully insulated with a couple of cut and shut polystyrene freight boxes and there is also layers of sculpted foam inside so there is literally no air between the bucket and the outer shell. The whole lot is sealed with packing tape for a durable finish(ala slope soaring model airplane practice) and there is a soft closed cell foam seal where the lid mates for an airtight top cavity. Yep, it's fairly ugly but should work a TA treat. It may even get some signage yet.
But wait.... there's more
Having spent a night out with a few guys in Newcastle on Ross's Australian homecoming beer tour I was finally persuaded to even consider that a false bottom might be a better alternative than the braid I had long planned my lautering upon. So in my true TA fashion I found a scrap of stainless and set to work to try and create something to make the Borretmaid worthy of the brewery (forget ye not the mill). And I think I'm pretty happy with the results. After drilling about 1000 2.5mm holes in 1mm stainless (deburred both sides I might add) and six polycarbonate posts for it to stand on ...RSI had truly set in. But I think it's worth it. I think it just might work.
Now there's about 2 litres under the false bottom so that should lower the prefferential flow and the pickup actually presses hard against the bottom making it cone slightly so I should have very little dead space.
So there you have it. I like seeing other peoples setups so I thought I would let anyone who is after ideas to do it on the cheap see this. The rest of Crazy Eyes Brewery is nearly done so will post that when it's complete and then my larger wood panelled, copper banded mash tun sometime after that.
Cheers
Borret :blink:
Yes it's essentially a bucket which unlike an expensive 5 gallon round cooler actually holds 23 litres rather than 19 which will certainly do me in the short term. Fully insulated with a couple of cut and shut polystyrene freight boxes and there is also layers of sculpted foam inside so there is literally no air between the bucket and the outer shell. The whole lot is sealed with packing tape for a durable finish(ala slope soaring model airplane practice) and there is a soft closed cell foam seal where the lid mates for an airtight top cavity. Yep, it's fairly ugly but should work a TA treat. It may even get some signage yet.
But wait.... there's more
Having spent a night out with a few guys in Newcastle on Ross's Australian homecoming beer tour I was finally persuaded to even consider that a false bottom might be a better alternative than the braid I had long planned my lautering upon. So in my true TA fashion I found a scrap of stainless and set to work to try and create something to make the Borretmaid worthy of the brewery (forget ye not the mill). And I think I'm pretty happy with the results. After drilling about 1000 2.5mm holes in 1mm stainless (deburred both sides I might add) and six polycarbonate posts for it to stand on ...RSI had truly set in. But I think it's worth it. I think it just might work.
Now there's about 2 litres under the false bottom so that should lower the prefferential flow and the pickup actually presses hard against the bottom making it cone slightly so I should have very little dead space.
So there you have it. I like seeing other peoples setups so I thought I would let anyone who is after ideas to do it on the cheap see this. The rest of Crazy Eyes Brewery is nearly done so will post that when it's complete and then my larger wood panelled, copper banded mash tun sometime after that.
Cheers
Borret :blink: