all-grain brewing equipment update

Yesterday I wrote about how cool all of my all-grain brewing equipment is. Well today, you get to see for yourself how cool it really is.

Ok, maybe it's not that cool, but I did construct the mash tun myself. Here are some pictures of the mash tun. The only thing missing is the digital thermometer which I will mount on the side.

These pictures are of inside the mash tun. The lateral copper tubing is the manifold. It drains the wort out of the tun. The horizontal copper tubing is the sparge arm. It rinses the grain bed with hot water.

 

Above is the outside of the mash tun. The first is the ball valve for draining. The second pic is of the connection point for the sparge arm. A hose connects the hot liquor tank to the mash tun where 160+ degree water flows through the valve and feeds the sparge arm. I plan to use a much thicker hose.

Here are the kettles used during the brewing process. The first pic is the hot liquor tank. This one was my go-to kettle for extract brewing. It is/was a turkey deep fryer and holds up to 7.5 gallons of liquid. I love the integrated spigot. The middle shot depicts my newest brew kettle and my old brew kettle. The last shot is the ball valve on the new brew kettle. The new brew kettle is a converted keg and can hold up to 15.5 gallons of liquid.

I currently do not plan to brew batches larger than 5 or 6 gallons. However, all I would need to do is swap out the hot liquor tank for another 15.5 gallon keg. Not bad.

There are a few other miscellaneous items not shown here. I have a pump that I use for wort chilling. I also have a home-made immersion wort chiller. It’s basically 20’ of soft copper tubing coiled up. Works very well and can chill a 5 gallon batch to yeast pitching temps in less than 20 minutes. I so can’t wait to play with these! Is it spring time yet?