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unionrdr

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Ok,now that I finally am getting my brewing stuff in one place,I decided to take the 1st pic of my comp room/make-shift man cave. It has a ways to go yet,as you'll see developing.
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Not to mention,clearing a ton of windows 98 stuff,multimeter's, probes,etc off the top of the comp desk for my start on this;http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/unionrdr/PICT0004-1.jpg
I need to get some fair size French doors to fit the archway into the room. And a small room a/c unit to keep the fermenters comfortable. & boy,do I wish I could get one of those tables with the keg chairs that other member's wife bought him. Just got room for that,a fridge for beers/starters,& a tall cabinet for office supplies,glasses,etc.
Maybe a 20" monitor for the comp to watch stuff on.
But most of all,old beer neon's/signs,beer posters/pics,that sort of thing.
What ghetto man cave stuff are you guys putting together?
 
Starting to boil
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Disconnected, stripped of insulation and moved to bathroom for wort cooling
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Fermentation bucket and the element from a water boiler, Ye, I'd call my boiler ghetto. :D
 
That first one strikes me as some kind of certain-ethnic crock pot. Now that's different! certainly ghetto. The 2nd one is so much like me-run watcha brung,& hope ya brung enough. Or,as "Roady" said,"evathang works if ya let it"!
 
Here is my Man Cave and Getto Brew Rig I'll be working on the Keezer colar next the 3rd pic is from last summer when I was using my Jockey Box, I use it for parties now

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Some these look pretty nice to me. I am stoop brewing atmo.

And for the record "man cave" makes me cringe. I have a music studio in the attic, which is where I go to get away. Was thinking about doing some construction and add a little bar but that would suck going up two flights of stairs when I want to drink one down stairs. Kinda screwed really.

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Good stuff guys! Keep'em coming,so we can show that us poor guys got soul too! Just gotta follow Roady's philosophy, that "everything works if ya let it"!
 
It's ghetto to me,since it's an old printer stand. One of the glass doors is missing in action. And the bottom drawer fell apart. but it still serves a purpose. Better to use it as a fermenter stand/storage unit than toss it & buy something expensive. Total cost:$0.00.
 
I have a pretty jickey jook setup, next brewday I will take a few pics to post up, I cannot believe I have no pics of the brewery in action!
 
26.4 lbs. of grain, 12.3 gallons of water, full-volume, BIAB to yield 6.5 gallons of 1.111 RIS for the 60 gallon total, on the Merrimack Valley Home Brew Club Brew Day.

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These last few certainly qualify. Cobbling anything together that'll get the job done. In the true spirit of America,necessity is the mother of invention. I've been forced to use a wet tee shirt & a 12" turbo fan to cool my fermenter. But even that needs some help with the a/c fubared.
 
Not that much of a story tbh. Was talking to another local homebrewer and mentioned the corona mill. He said he had one in his basemet that he never used. He said I could have it. So he gave it to me. No hopper. Just looked around my kitchen and saw that cup about the right size. Taped it on and there ya go. Crushed my own and ended up with 78% efficiency. Second all grain brew...
 
Yep great price. I need a wort chiller badly so this allows me to buy some copper instead. If I want one of those beastly crushers someday then I can get when I have the extra money. Corona mill is not bad tho I am here to say. Youll spend 50 bucks at most for one.
 
I'm thinking of making one of those rib cage coolers. It looks like you'll get a lot more cooling in the same amount of space.
 
Corona Mill in a Bucket, 5 gallon water bottle hopper, powered with cheap Harbor Freight low-speed drill, a direct rip-off of WilserBrewer's rig. Milling the grain for the Scottish 80 that served as a yeast-cultivation batch for the club RIS. In total, the club did about 20 gallons of the 80, racked, combined the cakes, and divided the yeast into all the fermentors for 60 gallons of RIS.

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jeffmeh said:
Corona Mill in a Bucket, 5 gallon water bottle hopper, powered with cheap Harbor Freight low-speed drill, a direct rip-off of WilserBrewer's rig. Milling the grain for the Scottish 80 that served as a yeast-cultivation batch for the club RIS. In total, the club did about 20 gallons of the 80, racked, combined the cakes, and divided the yeast into all the fermentors for 60 gallons of RIS.

I actually have a water bottle to spare. Do you have a thread explaining this further. No hammer drill tho.
 
I think I might have the win on this one... though I am a college student so it could be more of a "Broke-Ass Student" rig than a "Ghetto" one.

Mash/Lauter Tun (total cost: $11)
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Insulation/Mash Buddy (she loves the heat)
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Boiling/Heating liquor (I can do stove-top as the elevation makes for a lower boil temp)
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Brand "new" fermentation chamber made of a freezer I found
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Kegerator that was given to me for free by a motor sports junkie (obviously.) Tap and CO2 tank were included but the tap wasn't on during the photo as it was soaking in oxyclean
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Thanks I am going to mess with it. I have a 2x4 sitting on my porch right now even. I just beed to find a hammer drill. Craigs list innit.
 
Bbq & beer,what a combo! And that kegerator looks more like a "2nrator"...cool. Good price on the MLT. Simple & effective.
 
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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How many degree will it drop being in there?
 
It stays between 60-65° F with two half-gallon jugs of ice. I rotate one out every 12-24 hours, basically when the older of the two is fully melted. I should note that my apartment is pretty hot year round, usually around 80° unless it's hotter than that outside, so I'd say it does a pretty good job, especially considering the price (free).
 
That first one strikes me as some kind of certain-ethnic crock pot. Now that's different! certainly ghetto. The 2nd one is so much like me-run watcha brung,& hope ya brung enough. Or,as "Roady" said,"evathang works if ya let it"!

Man, I remember Ethnic Crock Pot. Saw them back in 67 open up for the Dead in Telluride. :rockin:
 
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