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Have you thought of asking him for some yeast? He's probably got lots to spare! Not to mention hops too...

Hello BB, Thanks! I started brewing back in 2000, I guess this makes it 5 years now. It all started thanks to an Aussie! He got me into it and haven't ever looked back. I started with malt extract and specialty grain and after 3 months went to AG. My first ever was a pale ale. The...

Are you planning on having one made for you or are you making it your self? What kind of tools do you have access to? I designed my own mill and had it made for me by a local machine shop who did the work in exchange for beer (quite a bit of it too!). I have Autocad plans if you're...

When I brew, I rate my efficiency based on what comes out of my mashtun, not was comes out of the kettle. This tells me more accurately how efficiently I extracted sugars from the grain. Once it's in the kettle, you can evaporate more or less water, and depending on how much hops you put in...

Thanks! One drawback to my setup is if I do a lower gravity beer, the grain bed tends to be rather shallow. You could also try a copper pipe manifold at the bottom of your MT, and run it out your outlet. That could be an easy and quick way to solve your problem. Seb

Over the years, I've gone through several mashtun designs, starting with the Papazian bucket in a bucket, cooller with copper manifold (various iterations) and now I use a perforated stainless steel false bottom fitted to the bottom of a modified 50L stainless steel beer keg. I think it works...

You had to clean your bottles first right?

One of my first lauter tuns was a rectangular cooler (20L or so) with a copper pipe manifold. Copper pipe is easy to cut the slots into with a hack saw. I cut the slots about half way through the pipe diameter and spaced them about 1/4" apart. I had 4 pipes running lengthwise. The ends were...