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one of my favorite things about brewday :D

these look awesome

I just bought a 110v version. $25 including shipping

subscribed Just got mine in the mail after 13 days, ready to build the box

It looks like the cheapest UPS would be about $60 My zip is 96002. I might be willing to ship if no one local is interested.

Hey guys, I bought 10 cornies off a guy sight unseen and they were supposed to be ball locks. well three of them ended up being pin locks and I would rather get rid of them. I will trade for ball locks or maybe other brew gear or sell them outright. asking $20 a piece but would need to sell...

yeah there are a couple nanobreweries built out of these

you mention that you boil down the first 1 gallon of runnings to 1 quart, did you add that back to the mash or did you boil it down and then continue sparging the rest of the mash?

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looks like a hoff-stevens keg. Is the side bung welded up? can't tell from the pic. I have one that i cut the top off and use as my HLT. Had to do a little extra welding to seal up the extra holes but it works good now.

I did what you are talking about but I made the MT a tippy dump so that I could clean it easier. the arms that susoend it are mounted halfway up the keg so the bottom drain isn't resting on anything. Once the wort is transferred to the BK and I'm done sparging I can tip it up and dump the grains...

+1 for the CFC. My homemade CFC cost less than $50 and it works better than an immersion chiller and doesnt clog like a plate chiller

Yeah you definitely don't need to insulate the HLT or the BK. Polishing those kegs will look better anyways.

I have one that I use a tippy-dump mash tun with a bottom drain. It was kind of a pain but I just cut down each side of the plastic rim with a recipricol saw and then peeled it off in chunks.

I use a counterflow chiller. I whirlpool which is easy because the filter has a low profile in the tun, and then drain through the cfc. I use whole leaf hops although the filter seems to work well with pellet hops since it has a fairly large footprint in the tun.