ghetto brew setups?...

[unionrdr]

With the right amount of chill down it might.

 

[dpatrickv]

Sometimes Im like this

Other times I'm like this:

 

[captianoats]

I'll bite. Here is my $6,000 brew stand (if you count the cost of the truck and tailgate)

 

[dstranger99]

From another of my threads, but this may qualify as a little "ghetto" ??

 

[KIRBREW]

Here's my three tier.

 

[CGVT]

I've upgraded. Ha!

 

[Bulls Beers]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8CAyasNwag

That was great video..I was kinda cracking up..I was thinking Noooo don't, before you put in the yeast...I probably would've siphon some of that out..How'd it come out??

 

[EnjoyGoodBeer]

Here's my ghetto fermentation chamber. It's a big Styrofoam cooler I found by the dumpsters behind the Planned Parenthood by my house. True story.

Lol hopefully you did more than starsan that cooler. Haha

 

[EnjoyGoodBeer]

Only doing extracts but heres most of my stuff, least I have a nice roof over my head when It rains. That was batch 5 Red Ale.

 

[kblankenship11]

Some of these dont seem so ghetto to me! My keg didnt fit on my burner so i grabbed two posts out of my fence...

 

[Revvy]

Some of these dont seem so ghetto to me! My keg didnt fit on my burner so i grabbed two posts out of my fence...

Having a keggle, not ghetto.....having a keggle with the miller sticky still on it and balanced precariously on two pieces of rusty (hopefully) metal.....

 

[bixbyBrewer]

My new ghetto keggle rig....



Jet burner is sweet though....Step up from 20qt pot on an electric stove!

 

[fall-line]

My old setup qualified as ghetto, I think.

My new setup, is decidedly less ghetto..which I am thrilled about, but I will always miss the ghetto fabulous brewing process a bit

 

[Revvy]

fall-line is that a trashcan as a mash tun or brew kettle??

 

[fall-line]

fall-line is that a trashcan as a mash tun or brew kettle??

Hah, now THAT would be ghetto! No, it's a Bayou classic 44qt stainless pot, my old BIAB vessel.

 

[CGVT]

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

 

[Leadgolem]

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

Unless the setup has been assembled from found objects.

 

[lumpher]

i thought my setup was ghetto, but after seeing some of these, i feel like i done moved on up to the east side

 

[jammin]

I think that stainless valves, thermometers and sight glasses in kettles or keggles disqualifies a rig as ghetto no matter what the rest of the set-up looks like. Any electric pumps are disqualifies as well, IMO.

Of course, I am not an expert in all things ghetto.

You know what they say, "One man's ghetto is another's dream set up".

totally true

 

[unionrdr]

To me,gheto is run watcha brung. I was just curious about other's set ups in this regard when I started this thread. Just like meatloaf said in "Roady"...everything works if ya let it. Hence my sig.
My fermenter stand is a large,old printer stand next to the computer hutch. It also has plenty of room for all my bits & pieces used for brew/bottling days. All in one place. With room undernieth for BK's,blow off jugs,gallons of PBW/Starsan,etc. With craft boxes of bottles neatly stacked in the corner.
I brew on the stove,but carrying BK's & the like back & forth gettin harder to due these days. Need to make/find a rolling cart the same hieght as the FV stand to rtransport kettles & buckets of water,etc. Maybe a microwave cart or the like? Anyone done that yet?Here's a pic of my brew corner for those that missed it; http://

 

[bellmtbbq]

None of these are ghetto! I'm going to have to take pictures of my setup next brewday. It pretty much consists of a 4 quart stockpot which I mash in, colander, pour the grain in a mixing bowl, sparge, colander, partial boil in the same stock pot. I am adding a 2 gallon mash tun this weekend (1 gallon brewer).

Plus I use a 5 liter vinegar jug fermenter with a balloon airlock. Anyone can top me?

 

[Leadgolem]

None of these are ghetto! I'm going to have to take pictures of my setup next brewday. It pretty much consists of a 4 quart stockpot which I mash in, colander, pour the grain in a mixing bowl, sparge, colander, partial boil in the same stock pot. I am adding a 2 gallon mash tun this weekend (1 gallon brewer).

Plus I use a 5 liter vinegar jug fermenter with a balloon airlock. Anyone can top me?

You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

 

[Obliviousbrew]

You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

You forgot to mention: one turtle, a few hamster and a croc

 

[Leadgolem]

You forgot to mention: one turtle, a few hamster and a croc

I have more then one turtle thank you. I actually got them for making soup, so they don't count.

 

[bellmtbbq]

You got me at ballon airlock.

I think it would be easier to list the actual brewing equipment, rather the other random objects I use for brewing.

3 piece airlocks 9
Variously sized drilled stoppers 12
Dried yeast, two types
Hydrometers 2, one normal brewing hydrometer and one distillers hydrometer I ordered by mistake.
6.5 gallon bottling bucket 1, just barely got this.
Refractometer 1, just got this too.
Pectin enzyme 2oz
Bentonite 1lb

I have lots of other things that get drafted when I brew, but nothing else that's actually made for it.

Oh yeah, I got no rubber stopper, a drilled out wine cork.

 

[+HopSpunge+]

I'm a connoisseur of getto brew stuff. Look at all I have collected over the years.

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[unionrdr]

A large electric motor on a grain mill isn't exactly ghetto. but not bad.

 

[+HopSpunge+]

A large electric motor on a grain mill isn't exactly ghetto. but not bad.

Ya. I got most everything for free and built everything myself;The electric motor came out of an old phone building in Buffalo. The fan is just a computer fan that cools it. The HLT is out of of a public school that got demolished(SS pot to make mashed potato's for 600 kids). I am proud of it.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,I noticed the shape of the pot right away,& wondered where it came from. Good job of re-purposing. I try to always remember what roady said "everything works if ya let it". You seem to be taking that to heart by the pics!

 

[Obliviousbrew]

I must say you guys have some beatiful ugly junk