Brew In A Bucket Why Not Indeed

[Bribie G]

Following on naturally from the BIAB / Lauter tun thread, I'm now ready to go with the next phase of the one-man systems wars

I'm a 50k round trip from Bunnings so I went to the local Thrifty link type store on the Island and hey - came up with a sweet little bit of gear. The Queen brand bucket is 20L as well but shorter and wider than the HandyPail of fame. Somewhat dearer as well, but fits beautifully into a Crownie with only about a cm all round and here it's sitting actually on a trivet as well.

couple of bodged drill holes, I did guide holes but the half inch bit snatched a couple of times and ripped some extra plastic. Funny I've not generally had any snatch problems in the past. B)

I've also put together the pulley system, I belayed it to the upper beam as MHB recommended and works a treat.

Stress test with a full cube

Test with the bucket / malt pipe with a 10k weight inside, I'd imagine the most it would be called on to do is 5 to 7 k, so all good. Lovely silky smooth and light action.

The whole exercise only took me about an hour to put together.

So now the system is saying "feed me some grain" so I'm off to do some milling. Will post progressively

 

[Online Brewing Supplies]

Glad your not drillin my teeth
Nev

 

[ledgenko]

Bribie .... Good work .. I love it ...

One day soon you will be putting up pics of your 3V one level march pumped over engineered awesomeness personified brewery ... and we can all comment on the brew porn .... ;-0

But for now ... This is just super sexy .. kinda like Liz Hurley ... but not up to Scarlett as yet ....

Matt

 

[QldKev]

dude, have you got a 10v brewery now?

 

[Bribie G]

I'm collecting tons of tuns - fortunately just cheap plastic ones at the moment, but who knows......................

 

[QldKev]

I'm collecting tons of tuns - fortunately just cheap plastic ones at the moment, but who knows......................

so when are you hitting town up here for a beer or few, check out all my pots n pans

 

[stux]

BribieG's 5V BIAB brewery

 

[kelbygreen]

so your going to lift it like a bag??? will you lift it slowly as not to disturb the grain bed? As I assume you are doing this to get clearer wort into the kettle.

 

[gregs]

Bribie you are an idiot! :lol:

 

[bradsbrew]

Michael, next time you want to drill through a soft and thin material put something solid under it. And put it on the slowest speed.

Interested to see where this goes mate.

Cheers

 

[Deebo]

Whats the advantage of a bucket with a false bottom compared to a bag?
Better grain bed for recirculating/sparging or something?

 

[gregs]

Here you go Dribbles this is what youre after.

 

[RdeVjun]

Q. How do you keep an idiot in suspense?


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Shaping up to be another epic thread Bribie! B)

 

[ShredMaster]

Watching with baited breath, friend

 

[Nick JD]

Braubiemeister...

 

[user 10246]

Great stuff as usual Bribie, love your work

 

[Tim F]

So I guess it's called BIAB?

If you lift the bucket out to do a step then dunk it back in, do it slowly. The shower of wort over my bench and shoes the other weekend taught me that one

 

[Silo Ted]

Ah taking a simple soluionand mking it more gear intensive than good old 3 vessel. A bloke's gotta do something with his time.

PS: I do enjoy your experiments, Bribie. They make this place fan-diddly-tastic.

 

[bradsbrew]

They make this place fan-diddly-tastic.

Haha well played.

 

[drsmurto]

Hate to rain on your parade Bribie but this form of brewing pre-dates brew in a bag by many years.

I recall talking to AG brewers 5 years ago who chuckled about how they started of with 2 x 20L mayo buckets, 1 inside the other with holes drilled in them to drain the mash tun into a kettle/urn.

Unless you are doing something vastly different? :huh: