mandoman
Well-Known Member
Just wanted to share a couple things. First, I bought a bunch of stuff from a fella on hbt who posted his whole lot. He was getting out of brewing and wanted to unload. Well, I got a ton of stuff and it wouldn'tve happened without this site - thanks for that (and thanks, engineerbrew!).
Now I'm moving up to 10 gallons. I brewed about 20 5 gallon all grain batches using a turkey cooker, gott 5 gallon cooler, and immersion chiller. Got into kegging after about my 3rd AG. Good beers all around with some experimentation with homegrown hops and some yeast harvesting that I threw out eventually - but learning a lot.
I'm going to go with a 3 tier ghetto system using a shelf in my garage, a prop for the burner/keggle, and a stand for the cfc so I can save my back. Whew, a keggle with 13 gallons of water is heavy as s%^t!
I'm planning on doing a cream ale/blonde ale/kolch thingy as my first brew to figure out my system. I'll have to lift several batches of strike water 5 gallons at a time up a small step ladder to hit my cooler MLT and again for batch sparge water but that should be it for lifting and it won't be boiling water at least. I'm going to try bag-hopping, whirlpooling, and using a pick up tube on the lower side of the keggle to remove all but maybe the last 0.5 to 1 gallon.
Will then be my first time with a cfc but it looks like it will work well. Pitch into 2 6.5 gallon carboys that I can carry into the fermentation area.
Whew! Thanks for letting me share.
cb
Now I'm moving up to 10 gallons. I brewed about 20 5 gallon all grain batches using a turkey cooker, gott 5 gallon cooler, and immersion chiller. Got into kegging after about my 3rd AG. Good beers all around with some experimentation with homegrown hops and some yeast harvesting that I threw out eventually - but learning a lot.
I'm going to go with a 3 tier ghetto system using a shelf in my garage, a prop for the burner/keggle, and a stand for the cfc so I can save my back. Whew, a keggle with 13 gallons of water is heavy as s%^t!
I'm planning on doing a cream ale/blonde ale/kolch thingy as my first brew to figure out my system. I'll have to lift several batches of strike water 5 gallons at a time up a small step ladder to hit my cooler MLT and again for batch sparge water but that should be it for lifting and it won't be boiling water at least. I'm going to try bag-hopping, whirlpooling, and using a pick up tube on the lower side of the keggle to remove all but maybe the last 0.5 to 1 gallon.
Will then be my first time with a cfc but it looks like it will work well. Pitch into 2 6.5 gallon carboys that I can carry into the fermentation area.
Whew! Thanks for letting me share.
cb