Recent content by swilcox

The raw ingredients

MLT, flipped up side down to utilize the natural low point of the keg neck for drainage

Bottom of HLT / fermenter

Ok. It does seem I am in slightly over my head, but I can tread water well :) So I'm going to need to buy a pump to recirculate the mash into a heat exchanger, preferably located in my HLT. I was hoping to build a close to minimum setup and expand slowly from there. I'll have to do a test and...

Thanks for the input. If I heat up the water in the HLT and just use the heating element (run at 110v) in the insulated MLT as a safety blanket and stir while stepping up to different temperature increments, do you think that will suffice?

Hello everyone! I've only been brewing for under a year and already I'm hopelessly addicted... I decided it was about time to upgrade and go to all grain batches, and why not 10 gallons at a time while I'm at it? A 3 tier gravity fed keggle system will be used. The first keg will have...