Post Your Ghetto Gear Thread. The < $2.00 Hopper

[megs80]

Thats rad! A kettle which looks like a bomb and bins for a windbreak. Brilliant

 

[Malted]

Here's my budget kettle stand and windshield set up - I couldn't find a better fit if i'd had them custom made - and both courtesy of the local hard garbage 'neighbourhood exchange program'

Sweet ride bro! Ahh bless the 'neighbourhood exchange program' the heart of every good brewery! Ahem, one mans trash is anothers treasure, pleasure don't call it garbage! I used to love Mitre 11 (the dump) for the 'recycling' I could do. Bloody metro areas won't let you take stuff FROM the dump!

 

[jyo]

Jyo ... That is tops ... BTW ... I have leaves on my plants now .. (hops that is !!!)

Coming along nicely ..

and the EKG ale ... nice !!!

Good to hear. Great stuff, mate!

 

[Malted]

So it is not cheap and ghetto but it is nasty. Air expands (and thus contracts) more than liquids...
Dodgey no chill:

 

[Malted]

Is my ghetto rope clamp I used on building the veranda (that I brew under) worth a mention?

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

This is my ghetto stovetop fullsized method.

 

[Spork]

Is my ghetto rope clamp I used on building the veranda (that I brew under) worth a mention?

Would probably be better if you had a 90 litre kettle hanging from it, but it's a start.

 

[Malted]

Would probably be better if you had a 90 litre kettle hanging from it, but it's a start.

Oh man I am about 20 litres short! You guys set high standards!

 

[chrisherberte]

my driptray is a chux superwipe

 

[Nevalicious]

my driptray is a chux superwipe

Mine is an off-cut from a home-made sombrero, that was made for a party

I have two. An off-cut from mine, an off-cut from the one my wife made

Sweet as. Spotlight FTW!

 

[riverside]

Is my ghetto rope clamp I used on building the veranda (that I brew under) worth a mention?

Thats Awesome ! LMAO

 

[Synthetase]

Great thread. Brew day on Saturday, so I'll get some picks of my discordant mess ghetto brewery up.

 

[hijax]

Hmm, might have to go all high tech like and whack some staples in there too.
Actually Wolfy, it was some great looking hoppers very much like your own that inspired me, but buggered if I can find anywhere selling those big water bottles around here.
Chickenfeed had some cheapie stools for $7-8. The two piece ones that join in the middle. I reckon I could use one of them, except I think the plastic is too brittle to cut easily.

Wellington Springs out in moonah sometimes have old ones they dont want. Give em a bell.

http://www.wellingtonsprings.com.au/

I use one as a ghetto fermenter.

 

[Spork]

Wellington Springs out in moonah sometimes have old ones they dont want. Give em a bell.

http://www.wellingtonsprings.com.au/

I use one as a ghetto fermenter.

Thx. hijax. Kind of the wrong end of the state but might be worth a call. Someone @ work told me somewhere closer to try, so will have a look there first.

 

[manticle]

Early ghetto stuff here: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=35595 (scroll down to burner and chiller)

Recycled like a bribie cheesecake.

 

[mh971]

Early ghetto stuff here: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=35595 (scroll down to burner and chiller)

Recycled like a bribie cheesecake.

I remember the post with that burner, that was one of the posts that got me off kits and into AG. That bush mechanic style is gold.

 

[kelbygreen]

lol thats was some hitech gear should be sold in stores world wide

 

[mh971]

Early ghetto stuff here: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=35595 (scroll down to burner and chiller)

Recycled like a bribie cheesecake.

I remember the post with that burner, that was one of the posts that got me off kits and into AG. That bush mechanic style is gold.

Never did get around to watching A Clockwork Orange though

 

[Synthetase]

In between brewing up a storm yesterday I took a few photos of some of the cheapy equipment I have pressed into service for brewing. I've been working on a proper brewstand over the last couple of weeks and this may actually be the last time some of this stuff is used so here you are:

The ghetto mill frame. Two sticks from the green shed bolted together across the mill.


The ghetto mill dust guard. Stops the drill brushes setting fire to barley dust


The sparge stand. An old PC case cover (even with 1337 fan hole to keep the ol' cyrix 686 nice and cool)


The burner stand: an old copper water-jacket incubator that still actually works. The immunology department were thowing it out! I never use the thing though and it weighs a ton. We broke bits of my house-mate's Laser (there's a piece of ghetto equipment right there) getting the bloody thing home.

 

[reVoxAHB]

I have dozens of these projects, some more ghetto than others.

Ghetto carbon water filtration:

reVox