benkbenkbenk
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I am wanting a project to improve my brewing. What area would you say is best to invest my time and money into that would give the biggest improvement to my brewing experience / finished beer.
My current set up is very basic. I have just moved to partial mashing. I mashed in a bag in my 5 gallon kettle which I wrapped in towels to insulate, I sparged by suspending the grains over the kettle on wire rack pouring water through a colander. I can't do full volume boils, so I boil about 3 gallons using my kitchen top gas hob. I cool the wort in my kitchen sink with bags of bought ice. I have a plastic 25 litre fermenter, which I wrap in a sleeping bag in a cupboard, and use hot water bottles to raise the temp if needed (normally morning and night as my house is fairly cold!).
I am thinking of either building a temperature controlled fermentation chamber, or a mash tun, or maybe go for an electric kettle set up, or build a wort chiller, etc. etc...
Basically every project I see looks tempting, but where is my money and time best spent?
My current set up is very basic. I have just moved to partial mashing. I mashed in a bag in my 5 gallon kettle which I wrapped in towels to insulate, I sparged by suspending the grains over the kettle on wire rack pouring water through a colander. I can't do full volume boils, so I boil about 3 gallons using my kitchen top gas hob. I cool the wort in my kitchen sink with bags of bought ice. I have a plastic 25 litre fermenter, which I wrap in a sleeping bag in a cupboard, and use hot water bottles to raise the temp if needed (normally morning and night as my house is fairly cold!).
I am thinking of either building a temperature controlled fermentation chamber, or a mash tun, or maybe go for an electric kettle set up, or build a wort chiller, etc. etc...
Basically every project I see looks tempting, but where is my money and time best spent?