GuyQLD
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Or Upgrading, depends on your fancy I suppose.
Managed to scorch my bag yesterday, bag split and was a bitch to salvage the brew. I'm growing increasingly frustrated about the limitations of BIAB and every time I want to do something that's even slightly more adventurous, it becomes a fairly labour intensive and really, not gaining much reward.
I've read through the Show us your Rig thread, been googling images till my eyes bleed and trying to get my head around 3v.
This is not really a "Should I upgrade" thread, I've pretty much decided that I want to. The question now is how? I've got a few points that I'm still trying to get my head around as well.
So far my equipment list is pretty basic. It consists of one 62L pot and a 3ring gas burner.
I reckon that's pretty much got my Kettle sorted, although I still need to put a tap and a pickup tube in it. But before I part with any hard earned cash I'm wanting to run a few details past people. Ask yourself this, if you had to do it all again, what would you change? That's the sort of info I'm looking for.
So suggestions for the HLT? Personally I'm struggling to go past an electric urn for this part. It just seems like a plug and play solution without going to the effort of trying to maintain temps via gas (difficult enough at the best of times) or doing any home wiring. I could get a sparky mate to help out, but by the time I cost everything, short of getting a really good price on a pot it just seems pretty hard to beat.
For the Mash Tun I'm leaning towards the 36L round coolers with a 12" false bottom. That's as far as I got however, obviously I'll need some other plumbing but no idea what. I assume this sort of setup is going to have a fair amount of deadspace? A concept I'm not really very familiar with coming from BIAB but does sparging method affect this at all? Fly sparging isn't' affected by this is it from what I gather, is that right? I won't ask if that makes it better because we'll never get anywhere if I open that can of worms, but should I be considering my sparging method before I start? Will it have any affect on the design?
My main reasoning behind the cooler approach is that it solves another problem, insulation.
So the next question is, what haven't I thought about? And where should I start?
And is there anyone in my neck of the woods that's willing to let me pop over one brew day to try and get a handle on this? I'm in Salisbury.
Managed to scorch my bag yesterday, bag split and was a bitch to salvage the brew. I'm growing increasingly frustrated about the limitations of BIAB and every time I want to do something that's even slightly more adventurous, it becomes a fairly labour intensive and really, not gaining much reward.
I've read through the Show us your Rig thread, been googling images till my eyes bleed and trying to get my head around 3v.
This is not really a "Should I upgrade" thread, I've pretty much decided that I want to. The question now is how? I've got a few points that I'm still trying to get my head around as well.
So far my equipment list is pretty basic. It consists of one 62L pot and a 3ring gas burner.
I reckon that's pretty much got my Kettle sorted, although I still need to put a tap and a pickup tube in it. But before I part with any hard earned cash I'm wanting to run a few details past people. Ask yourself this, if you had to do it all again, what would you change? That's the sort of info I'm looking for.
So suggestions for the HLT? Personally I'm struggling to go past an electric urn for this part. It just seems like a plug and play solution without going to the effort of trying to maintain temps via gas (difficult enough at the best of times) or doing any home wiring. I could get a sparky mate to help out, but by the time I cost everything, short of getting a really good price on a pot it just seems pretty hard to beat.
For the Mash Tun I'm leaning towards the 36L round coolers with a 12" false bottom. That's as far as I got however, obviously I'll need some other plumbing but no idea what. I assume this sort of setup is going to have a fair amount of deadspace? A concept I'm not really very familiar with coming from BIAB but does sparging method affect this at all? Fly sparging isn't' affected by this is it from what I gather, is that right? I won't ask if that makes it better because we'll never get anywhere if I open that can of worms, but should I be considering my sparging method before I start? Will it have any affect on the design?
My main reasoning behind the cooler approach is that it solves another problem, insulation.
So the next question is, what haven't I thought about? And where should I start?
And is there anyone in my neck of the woods that's willing to let me pop over one brew day to try and get a handle on this? I'm in Salisbury.