Show Us Your Manifold!

[hoppinmad]

consistently achieve over 80% efficiency

never had a stuck sparge

 

[Blackapple]

Mine works a treat

 

[IainMcLean]

Here you go then:

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Just replumbed it for the weekend.

 

[Margwar]

Mine works a treatView attachment 49342

Hey Blackapple... I reckon I have the same Mash Tun as you as I recognize the bit that sticks out where the outlet pipe is there.

How do you find the Temp guage sticking in that far? I would be scared of hitting it when I was mashing in with my mash paddle? I was thinking of getting the same temp guage on mine. At the moment I just use a hand held one.

Cheers,

Dietz

 

[technoicon]

haha here is mine!

 

[pk.sax]

haha here is mine!



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Un-sewn sheets ftw

 

[technoicon]

sewing is for girls :lol:

 

[gravey]

I just use a piece of perforated steel I scored from work, cut into a disc. As the keg has a dished bottom, I put the tap in the bottom of the keg and the flat piece of perforated steel just sits over the top. Works great, pretty much no liquid is left as it all drains through the bottom

Dont actually have a pic of the false bottom, but this is my mashtun in action, showing the tap on the bottom

 

[Malted]

No drilling or dremelling required.
Never had a stuck sparge.
Handy for carrying spent grain to the chooks.
Requires minimal storage space.
Can double as a windsock, if you have an ultralight and an airfield.
Or a sea anchor for a kayak
Or...

Your Grandfather's Undies???? :lol: :lol:

 

[Wolfy]

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Just replumbed it for the weekend.

Now you just need a bit of angle-grinder work on the top of the keg and you'll be good for posting pictures on the Interweb.

 

[Blackapple]

Hey Blackapple... I reckon I have the same Mash Tun as you as I recognize the bit that sticks out where the outlet pipe is there.

How do you find the Temp guage sticking in that far? I would be scared of hitting it when I was mashing in with my mash paddle? I was thinking of getting the same temp guage on mine. At the moment I just use a hand held one.

Cheers,

Dietz

built it all myself, false bottom from brew shop, cooler from bcf and temp guage from kirrawee hbs.

havent hit it yet, but definitely try to avoid doing so.
:icon_cheers:

 

[Batz]

i use a FB i made from the dome i removed from my keggle build

and an early model here

Yard

You can pick a boilermaker by their feet, they wear that shit out as well I see them all the time.

 

[IainMcLean]

Now you just need a bit of angle-grinder work on the top of the keg and you'll be good for posting pictures on the Interweb.

For a guy who has pen-pusher fingers I'm kinda pleased with how it's turned out - it fits the lid perfectly and holds temp really well with the ceramic coating I used on it....

 

[ledgenko]

Yardy .... that is some of the best beer porn I have EVA seen .... can you hook me up ???

Bloody fantastic and the OIC home front agrees !!!!

Yeah .....

 

[Wolfy]

For a guy who has pen-pusher fingers I'm kinda pleased with how it's turned out - it fits the lid perfectly and holds temp really well with the ceramic coating I used on it....

My comment was not a critique of your hole-cutting skills (which are likely better than mine) ... but rather about the text visible in your picture.

 

[Barley Belly]

Yeh, be careful

I heard the big breweries were trolling Web forums and sending thugs around to break legs of anyone found in possession of one of their kegs.

 

[yardy]

You can pick a boilermaker by their feet, they wear that shit out as well I see them all the time.

only to protect my boots from daiquiris spilt by fitters as they stumble to the bar after a hectic session of dancing around their handbags :lol:

 

[pk.sax]

only to protect my boots from daiquiris spilt by fitters as they stumble to the bar after a hectic session of dancing around their handbags :lol:

GOLD

 

[Bribie G]

B)

Edit: $8 metal mesh strainer from Woolies. The other bits double as hopsock, keg filler tube.

 

[Steve@PMF82]

Well i did it, i am finally a REAL brewer! I am a little excited so there may be someone out there in interent land that might care

Have been stuffing around with ss braid since the start of the year, then getting the shits with it and doing a biab here and there, then remembering why i wanted to not do that any more, so i gave in and got me some copper last week and have been fiddling around here and there since then.

Its just a 15L round coleman drink esky. I can mash 3.9kg of grain in it max @ 3L/kg, without a mash out , then batch sparge, got around 75% mash efficiency with the SS braid. My grain bills are usually smaller 2.5 to 3kg so it does the job for me no worries and i usually do infusion step mash.

Just gave the new manifold a dry/wet run, looks really promising, great siphon all the way to the end with an ants fart of water left! Wil brew an oatmeal stout this weekend sometime for test drive.

I still use BigW pot for HLT and kettle on electric stove. I have to cheat and use one of those fancy 99cent buckets for the sparge water though. B)