I would recommend this kit, great quality and it's nice to keg. I had the kit for a little less then a year and sold off all the equipment and bought a badass Brewstand.
Save the champion for juicing, I love that juicer. Thats how I get my watermelon juice well all my juice for my fruit beers. Anyway go with the Rebel Brewer mill it eats through grain like its nothin, really great machine and built to last a lifetime IMO.
Make a hop spider they work great but if your worried about the PVC and the hot wort use a stainless steel garbage disposal flange there about $15 at lowes/HD. Also pick up some long threaded bolts or all thread in stainless as well as stainless nuts and a stainless hose clamp large enough to...
Dudadiesel.com has stainless plate counterflow chillers at great prices and different options as in number of plates and connections coming off the chiller itself. The also have them on the eBay store. This is the link to the beer wort chiller page on there website...
As far as false bottoms go I haven't used a hinged on but the pico false bottom I use works amazingly. As far as a pump I run the March 809 HS and love it.
Link to false bottom:
http://www.homebrewing.org/Stainless-Steel-PICO-style-keg-kettle-false-bottom-wsupports_p_1010.html
Check out Brewsteel (www.brewsteel.com) they are a vender on HBT and the make the BadAss 2 which is a flat 3 burner system, which is also available in complete or frame only. Check them out, they are really nice. One was just given away in the HBT Giveaway. I have seen them in person and for the...
So I brewed up a batch of IIIPA this weekend and it had about 10oz of hops and it clogged up big time, my question is what is the proper mounting technique? I have seen brewers with it mounted 2 ways, so I'm wondering if I just had it hooked up wrong since the smaller of the 2 pieces clogged up...
Stout Tanks & Kettles - http://conical-fermenter.com/products/conicals/
I have one of the 7.3's with thermowell they sell and I must say it is very well built and a steal at there price.