ghetto brew setups?...

[ColeR]

my setup isn't really ghetto, i see most people have spent the money where is will help them out the most. as they should.

Me? I was getting tired of un/plugging my pumps so i made this thing and the extension cord get a nice place to be stored.

 

[BeerBrewBob]

Here's my ghetto brew setup.

Hilarious! The irony of using a piece of exercise equipment. Good stuff and fantastic idea sir.

 

[Eshorebrewer]

Not much but it works.

 

[heckler73]

- scrap 1/2" stainless tubing and a tube bender. Haven't tried it yet, but dual exhausts makes it kinda redneck, not ghetto.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Hardly any of this stuff is ghetto.

You got that right! Last page I saw pumps, plate chillers and a lot of stainless! I like the basketball post stand...but really c'mon, not ghetto at all in front of a new 5 bdrm, 3 zone hvac colonial

 

[mjhisey]

My 3rd floor apartment setup. 15-20 gallon batches in an 800 sq/ft living space.

 

[mjhisey]

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[DarkBrood]

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Ahoy-hoy! Now that qualifies! Basic gear, tight-quarters location... (I'm amazed your tomatoes aren't all charred from burner side-exhaust!)

 

[mjhisey]

Thanks DarkBrood! I shoulda taken pics of the hoses running from the shower to the pre-chiller. To the IC, and back into the kitchen sink!

 

[BWN]

start in my kitchen using my stove to heat up my strike water. After my first runnings I move outside to sparge, still use the stove to heat sparge water.

 

[PistolsAtDawn]

Not as ghetto as some, but I certainly started that way when I was first brewing. This picture was from chilling a quick BIAB batch I did on the stove last week to test something out.

I had two buckets filled with frozen water bottles and water. The top one is siphoning from there to the bucket on the floor which has a pump in it pushing water through a chiller.

The pump moving the water through the immersion chiller is that same 264 gph submersible from Harbor Freight that a lot of us have.

The system drains back to a carboy or other bucket. I used the first set of drained water for cleanup since it was still hot. The rest was cold enough to cycle back through the system. Got it down to pitching temp in 45 minutes or so.

 

[badlee]

Your brew gear colour fits well into your kitchen tone

 

[PistolsAtDawn]

Ha. I guess you're right. Thanks, bud.

 

[BeerBrewBob]

Not as ghetto as some, but I certainly started that way when I was first brewing. This picture was from chilling a quick BIAB batch I did on the stove last week to test something out.

I had two buckets filled with frozen water bottles and water. The top one is siphoning from there to the bucket on the floor with a pump.

The pump moving the water through the immersion chiller is that same 264 gph submersible from Harbor Freight that a lot of us have.

The system drains back to a carboy or other bucket. I used the first set of drained water for cleanup since it was still hot. The rest was cold enough to cycle back through the system. Got it down to pitching temp in 45 minutes or so.

Haha, I saw the thumbnail and thought whoa! The white and stainless....looks commercial.....then I clicked on the image.

 

[cgcracraft]

 

[wilserbrewer]

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Very nice rig...but sorry, NOT ghetto IMHO

 

[Rivenin]

Very nice rig...but sorry, NOT ghetto IMHO

Agreed! I had that same thing... to a t lol

 

[threeshields]

Finally converted these coolers my dad had sitting in his garage. Going to try it out this weekend.

 

[unionrdr]

Run watcha brung is always ghetto in my book.

 

[jdozer]

Heres the set up me and my brother in law use to mash/ sparge. And yea, thats a drywall mud bucket and a kitty litter tub. Hahaha

 

[unionrdr]

Now that's really ghetto! I hope you cleaned them well first.

 

[passedpawn]

Gheto chilling system... :rockin:

Hahaaa! Took me a moment to notice that cornie there. Apparantly we think alike. (I stopped doing this after some disasters).

 

[unionrdr]

At least the music was spot on...

 

[HopSpunge]

That was a funny video. OMG my back would have been shot for a month lifting that kettle lol.

 

[Jarrat]

I love looking at everyone's pictures on here... so I thought I'd post up all my ghetto junk...


Here is my 110 dual element pot I made.... about to boil some lager in my garage...

Here is my 4 tap kegerator with 4 ten gallon corny kegs.... the sprite tap usually has a low sugar carbonated pop for the family.. I love the 70's look of this setup!!!

My mash tun.... workes awesome... no complaints...

My grainmill.... made it completly from scratch... I motorized it using a 1/4hp furnace fan motor and pullys...

I leave it down at the LHBS since I don't make enough beer at home to need it... I'm currently in the process of doing up 13 more for local people in my communitty out of 304 stainless rollers for cheap....


Thanks for looking... and keep posting pics of your ghetto setups...

 

[DarkBrood]

... I'm currently in the process of doing up 13 more for local people in my communitty out of 304 stainless rollers for cheap....

Rollers for cheap? Where, oh, where? Care to share?

 

[unionrdr]

Epitomizes my sig...everything works if ya let it.

 

[Leadgolem]

So, is there a prize or something for being the most ghetto.

 

[DarkBrood]

Epitomizes my sig...everything works if ya let it.

Heh...right up there with "Any tool can be the right tool. (Especially when you need a hammer.)" - Red Green :fro:

 

[dstranger99]

Anyone think this setup would work for a lager ?