All Grain Cooler Parts List

[mrward83]

Does anyone have a parts list for starting an all-grain cooler set-up. I am in and around most major hardware stores (Lowes, HD, Ace).

 

[finsfan]

If you are referring to a cooler mash tun, you probably dont want to shop at your local hardward stores, they do not sell stainless plumbing parts. Your best bet is getting a bulkhead kit from bargainfittings.com they have a ton of great quality products. I just got a bulkhead kit with valve and bazooka screen for my mash tun and another bulkhead with valve for my boil kettle. These things seem like they will last a lifetime. This is my opinion on how to get great results and never have to worry about equipment breaking on brew day or ever needing to be replaced.

 

[LovesIPA]

I bought the bulkhead fitting from bargainfittings.com (via amazon) and it's worthless. The fitting is just too small for my igloo 10 gallon round cooler. My LHBS had a bulkhead that worked perfectly.

I'd post of picture of the one I got but it's in my mash tun right now and I'm mashing a wheat beer. Plus I'd have to take it apart to get a good picture.

The bargainfittings bulkhead is impossible to mount to a round igloo cooler using the supplied hardware and fittings. It simply will not work.

 

[finsfan]

I guess I wouldnt have known that. I use a rectangle cooler, so I guess it depends on the set-up you are going for

 

[mrward83]

I understood most fitting, available through large homebrew supply stores, to be brass. Last I checked, brass was widely available at local hardware stores. Does brass not work appropriately for an all grain cooler set-up?

 

[kombat]

+1 on the brass, my MLT fittings are brass.

I've got a brass nipple running through the drain plug, with rubber O-rings and brass nuts sandwiching the wall of the cooler, creating the seal. On the outside, I have a brass ball valve screwed on, with a 1/2" brass barb on the outside port to connect tubing to. On the inside, I have a 1" long brass nut, threaded all through, that screws onto the portion of the nipple inside the cooler, and allows the stainless mesh bazooka screen to screw onto the other end.