Cheap Mash Tun Idea

[braufrau]

I've emailed them to see if they can ship. God I won't sleep for a week. :lol: As for the doohickies, they weren't avaliable then so I made my own, like a false bottom from an aluminium sheet cut into a circle with a hacksaw and drilled with n holes, and a hop filter made from a wire kitchen strainer whacked into approximate shape etc.

I wonder if beerbelly could make shiney stainless one for you?

 

[TerritoryBrew]

This is my old bicket of death. Not at all inclined to split but having two jug elements, some kind of bare terminals, a few drips, a bit ustable, etc always something to treat with etreme respect.

Only cost about $30 dollars though (without the thermo) and was good for 60 litres.
It was based on my old Bruheat which was an OK boiler but a complete PITA for mashing unless you were working about 4 litres per kg.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

 

[jojai]

Haha awesome, I think I'll keep my ideas to myself next time, seems you can't reinvent the wheel when it comes to the world's oldest alcoholic beverage.

Brafrau: I would buy my toilet paper from Wayne if he sold it, but I don't think I've ever seen those sediment reducers in his shop before (I guess 'cos they're useless?).

 

[Thirsty Boy]

Or for a chunk less money again, you could have a mashtun just like mine .... (IIRC it was $8 from the big green store)



Mines uninsulated because I run a HERMS (soon to be RIMS) but thats nothing a few dollars worth of camping mat and some of that extra cheap gaffa couldn't fix. Or you could buy 2 of them for less than the price of a fermentor and sit them one inside the other and let the air gap do the insulating for you., or I suppose you could fill the gap with expending foam goo.

Mines 47L but these things go up to 140L - when Spillsmostofit, myself, Peels, Quintrex, Velophile and Darkfaerytale had a big brewday - the 134L one we used could probably have done with a little structural support in order to deal with the 35 odd kg of grain we threw at it, but it made it through the day just fine and 100+L of strong scotch ale was the result.

As big a mash tun as you like for bugger all.

Thirsty

 

[justsomeguy]

Or for a chunk less money again, you could have a mashtun just like mine .... (IIRC it was $8 from the big green store)

Mines uninsulated because I run a HERMS (soon to be RIMS) but thats nothing a few dollars worth of camping mat and some of that extra cheap gaffa couldn't fix. Or you could buy 2 of them for less than the price of a fermentor and sit them one inside the other and let the air gap do the insulating for you., or I suppose you could fill the gap with expending foam goo.

Mines 47L but these things go up to 140L - when Spillsmostofit, myself, Peels, Quintrex, Velophile and Darkfaerytale had a big brewday - the 134L one we used could probably have done with a little structural support in order to deal with the 35 odd kg of grain we threw at it, but it made it through the day just fine and 100+L of strong scotch ale was the result.

As big a mash tun as you like for bugger all.

Thirsty

Now that's a neat trick !

My 44 litre esky is on its last legs now, the plastic is cracking all over the place. I reckon if I drop the thing it will just fall to bits. Oh well it has seen me through 20 odd years of partying and mayhem :lol:

A trip to the big green box might just be in order this weekend to investigate a new "thats not a storage box, its a mash tun !" options.

gary

 

[Bribie G]

I've emailed them to see if they can ship.

They only ship to the EU and reckon it would cost hundreds of dollars to Australia - back to the esky

 

[braufrau]

They only ship to the EU and reckon it would cost hundreds of dollars to Australia - back to the esky

Boo! Still reckon you should talk to wayne.