drudini11
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I have been brewing AG for a few years now with a pretty basic setup using a single banjo burner, 15 gallon HLT/BK and 10 Gallon Rubbermaid Cooler MT. Have been doing mostly 5 gallon batches using single infusion / no sparge or batch sparge. A typical brew day for me is about 6-7 hours from setup to cleanup. This winter I have come to 2 conclusions
firstly is that I really need to move my operations indoors as the weather in New England has simply sucked for brewing this year and secondly I just dont have 6-7 hours to spare on a weekend with a wife and 3 daughters that also need my attention. My goal is to start putting together a setup in the garage that will allow me to continue doing AG batches but try and get the timing down to between 4-5 hours and also not be impacted by bad weather all the time. My current equipment includes:
1 Spike Brewing 15 Gallon Kettle (with 3 couplers)
1 10 Gallon Rubbermaid Cooler with False Bottom
1 8 Gallon Heavy Duty Kettle (use for the occasional 5 gallon extract or 3 gallon BIAB)
1 Banjo Burner
1 Shirron Chiller (gravity fed .no pumps currently)
This is not something I expect to happen overnight. Any additional money that I use towards this goal takes away from buying ingredients so a bit of a trade off.
Looking for advice on how to best take advantage of the equipment that I already have, shorten my brew days and move the brewing process indoors. If I still want to actually brew this year then I am looking at a budget of $500 or less to enhance this setup for the current year so not sure how far that will get me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
1 Spike Brewing 15 Gallon Kettle (with 3 couplers)
1 10 Gallon Rubbermaid Cooler with False Bottom
1 8 Gallon Heavy Duty Kettle (use for the occasional 5 gallon extract or 3 gallon BIAB)
1 Banjo Burner
1 Shirron Chiller (gravity fed .no pumps currently)
This is not something I expect to happen overnight. Any additional money that I use towards this goal takes away from buying ingredients so a bit of a trade off.
Looking for advice on how to best take advantage of the equipment that I already have, shorten my brew days and move the brewing process indoors. If I still want to actually brew this year then I am looking at a budget of $500 or less to enhance this setup for the current year so not sure how far that will get me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.