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Junk and disorderly
Longish post, but you know when you just gotta tell someone that understands!
I was hoping to have this blonde recipe on the go about now, but I am waiting for my mates lad from the brewery to get me some yeast and maybe the grain and hops if I'm lucky with my blagging, ha ha ha , but the festivities have got in the way.
But its given me time to sort through some of my junk to find stuff that might be useful for all grain brewing, found another reasonable sized pan, dug out my smaller 15L swan water urn, the bigger burco may be useful for future bigger batches.
Found various cooker and bar b q gas burners so I can sort a heating device.
Found some approx 10mm copper pipe for a wort chiller
One question though is their any problem with mild steel in the mash?
I ask as the top part of the patio heater I salvaged from my brothers pub fits nicely in my pan with room all around and feet on the bottom to keep it clear of the bottom of pan and it would make lifting out grain much easier than a bag.
I've got tons of stuff from my 10+ yrs of biodiesel brewing, and I've made all my kit mainly from junk and just buy the odd fitting I aint got, so now I've researched what I need for beer I'm thinking of a pan with temp gauge, recirculation pump and pipework, pid temp control, and a mash tun from coolbox with manifold, (got a coolbox but its a bit too far gone even for me to rescue, but most of it looks easy enough seeing what folks have cobbled together on here and you tube etc.
Can you tell I'm hooked :thumb:
I'm amazed that so much is similar to biodiesel, we even call biodiesel the dark side as compared to just filtering veg oil :mrgreen:
I was hoping to have this blonde recipe on the go about now, but I am waiting for my mates lad from the brewery to get me some yeast and maybe the grain and hops if I'm lucky with my blagging, ha ha ha , but the festivities have got in the way.
But its given me time to sort through some of my junk to find stuff that might be useful for all grain brewing, found another reasonable sized pan, dug out my smaller 15L swan water urn, the bigger burco may be useful for future bigger batches.
Found various cooker and bar b q gas burners so I can sort a heating device.
Found some approx 10mm copper pipe for a wort chiller
One question though is their any problem with mild steel in the mash?
I ask as the top part of the patio heater I salvaged from my brothers pub fits nicely in my pan with room all around and feet on the bottom to keep it clear of the bottom of pan and it would make lifting out grain much easier than a bag.
I've got tons of stuff from my 10+ yrs of biodiesel brewing, and I've made all my kit mainly from junk and just buy the odd fitting I aint got, so now I've researched what I need for beer I'm thinking of a pan with temp gauge, recirculation pump and pipework, pid temp control, and a mash tun from coolbox with manifold, (got a coolbox but its a bit too far gone even for me to rescue, but most of it looks easy enough seeing what folks have cobbled together on here and you tube etc.
Can you tell I'm hooked :thumb:
I'm amazed that so much is similar to biodiesel, we even call biodiesel the dark side as compared to just filtering veg oil :mrgreen: