ghetto brew setups?...

ryclo said:

Gheto chilling system... :rockin:

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Hahaaa! Took me a moment to notice that cornie there. Apparantly we think alike. (I stopped doing this after some disasters).

That was a funny video. OMG my back would have been shot for a month lifting that kettle lol.

I love looking at everyone's pictures on here... so I thought I'd post up all my ghetto junk...


Here is my 110 dual element pot I made.... about to boil some lager in my garage...






Here is my 4 tap kegerator with 4 ten gallon corny kegs.... the sprite tap usually has a low sugar carbonated pop for the family.. I love the 70's look of this setup!!!





My mash tun.... workes awesome... no complaints...





My grainmill.... made it completly from scratch... I motorized it using a 1/4hp furnace fan motor and pullys...





I leave it down at the LHBS since I don't make enough beer at home to need it... I'm currently in the process of doing up 13 more for local people in my communitty out of 304 stainless rollers for cheap....


Thanks for looking... and keep posting pics of your ghetto setups...

Jarrat said:

... I'm currently in the process of doing up 13 more for local people in my communitty out of 304 stainless rollers for cheap....

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Rollers for cheap? Where, oh, where? Care to share?

So, is there a prize or something for being the most ghetto.

unionrdr said:

Epitomizes my sig...everything works if ya let it.

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Heh...right up there with "Any tool can be the right tool. (Especially when you need a hammer.)" - Red Green :fro:

Anyone think this setup would work for a lager ?

Sometimes Im like this


Other times I'm like this:

I'll bite. Here is my $6,000 brew stand (if you count the cost of the truck and tailgate)

From another of my threads, but this may qualify as a little "ghetto" ??

Here's my three tier.

I've upgraded. Ha!

passedpawn said:

Hahaaa! Took me a moment to notice that cornie there. Apparantly we think alike. (I stopped doing this after some disasters).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8CAyasNwag

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That was great video..I was kinda cracking up..I was thinking Noooo don't, before you put in the yeast...I probably would've siphon some of that out..How'd it come out??

Panphage said:

Here's my ghetto fermentation chamber. It's a big Styrofoam cooler I found by the dumpsters behind the Planned Parenthood by my house. True story.

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Lol hopefully you did more than starsan that cooler. Haha

Only doing extracts but heres most of my stuff, least I have a nice roof over my head when It rains. That was batch 5 Red Ale.

Some of these dont seem so ghetto to me! My keg didnt fit on my burner so i grabbed two posts out of my fence...

kblankenship11 said:

Some of these dont seem so ghetto to me! My keg didnt fit on my burner so i grabbed two posts out of my fence...

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Having a keggle, not ghetto.....having a keggle with the miller sticky still on it and balanced precariously on two pieces of rusty (hopefully) metal.....

My new ghetto keggle rig....



Jet burner is sweet though....Step up from 20qt pot on an electric stove!

My old setup qualified as ghetto, I think.

My new setup, is decidedly less ghetto..which I am thrilled about, but I will always miss the ghetto fabulous brewing process a bit

fall-line is that a trashcan as a mash tun or brew kettle??

Revvy said:

fall-line is that a trashcan as a mash tun or brew kettle??

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Hah, now THAT would be ghetto! No, it's a Bayou classic 44qt stainless pot, my old BIAB vessel.

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

CGVT said:

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

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Unless the setup has been assembled from found objects.

i thought my setup was ghetto, but after seeing some of these, i feel like i done moved on up to the east side

CGVT said:

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

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totally true

None of these are ghetto! I'm going to have to take pictures of my setup next brewday. It pretty much consists of a 4 quart stockpot which I mash in, colander, pour the grain in a mixing bowl, sparge, colander, partial boil in the same stock pot. I am adding a 2 gallon mash tun this weekend (1 gallon brewer).

Plus I use a 5 liter vinegar jug fermenter with a balloon airlock. Anyone can top me?

bellmtbbq said:

None of these are ghetto! I'm going to have to take pictures of my setup next brewday. It pretty much consists of a 4 quart stockpot which I mash in, colander, pour the grain in a mixing bowl, sparge, colander, partial boil in the same stock pot. I am adding a 2 gallon mash tun this weekend (1 gallon brewer).

Plus I use a 5 liter vinegar jug fermenter with a balloon airlock. Anyone can top me?

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You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

Leadgolem said:

You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

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You forgot to mention: one turtle, a few hamster and a croc

Obliviousbrew said:

You forgot to mention: one turtle, a few hamster and a croc

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I have more then one turtle thank you. I actually got them for making soup, so they don't count.

Leadgolem said:

You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

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Oh yeah, I got no rubber stopper, a drilled out wine cork.

I'm a connoisseur of getto brew stuff. Look at all I have collected over the years.

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unionrdr said:

A large electric motor on a grain mill isn't exactly ghetto. but not bad.

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Ya. I got most everything for free and built everything myself;The electric motor came out of an old phone building in Buffalo. The fan is just a computer fan that cools it. The HLT is out of of a public school that got demolished(SS pot to make mashed potato's for 600 kids). I am proud of it.

I must say you guys have some beatiful ugly junk