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I've now committed myself to building up a 2-tier brew tower to improve the speed of my brew days. While at the home-supply box store, I stumbled upon a 4 way manifold for splitting your garden hose into 4 separate connections, each controlled by a valve. Who cares?
Me!!! I'm psyched about this. I think this is REALLY going to make my brew days run more smoothly!!!
One of the outlets will be left bare so I can just dump water into a bucket or carboy whenever I wish without having to spray it through a nozzle or disconnect something else. The second valve will be permanently connected to my counterflow chiller. The third will be connected to a 25 foot coil-up hose with a sprayer attachment. The fourth may eventually be used to supply water to a hot water tank.
Each one is controlled by the twist of a knob. Hook up your hose at the start of your brew day and then you have all your water connections at the twist of a knob. Need to control a pending boil-over? Just grab the sprayer and spray. Turn the adjustable sprayer to "stream" and you can use it to clean out your MLT. Turn that off and turn on the knob for your CFC and just like that, your chiller is running. Need to sanitize a carboy? Dribble some StarSan in the bottom and put it under the 4-way manifold and open the third valve. Need to fill your water tank? Turn the 4th valve.
No more messing with the garden hose in the middle of the brew session!!! Woohoo!!!
The other little thing I'm going to put into my brew stand will be a (possibly-spring-assisted) dumper. Once you are done with the MLT, just move a lever to rotate the MLT and dump the entire contents into a bag to be taken to compost. Then just spray with the sprayer and it's clean. No more having to manually dump 20 dry pounds of now-soaking-wet grain
Me!!! I'm psyched about this. I think this is REALLY going to make my brew days run more smoothly!!!
One of the outlets will be left bare so I can just dump water into a bucket or carboy whenever I wish without having to spray it through a nozzle or disconnect something else. The second valve will be permanently connected to my counterflow chiller. The third will be connected to a 25 foot coil-up hose with a sprayer attachment. The fourth may eventually be used to supply water to a hot water tank.
Each one is controlled by the twist of a knob. Hook up your hose at the start of your brew day and then you have all your water connections at the twist of a knob. Need to control a pending boil-over? Just grab the sprayer and spray. Turn the adjustable sprayer to "stream" and you can use it to clean out your MLT. Turn that off and turn on the knob for your CFC and just like that, your chiller is running. Need to sanitize a carboy? Dribble some StarSan in the bottom and put it under the 4-way manifold and open the third valve. Need to fill your water tank? Turn the 4th valve.
No more messing with the garden hose in the middle of the brew session!!! Woohoo!!!
The other little thing I'm going to put into my brew stand will be a (possibly-spring-assisted) dumper. Once you are done with the MLT, just move a lever to rotate the MLT and dump the entire contents into a bag to be taken to compost. Then just spray with the sprayer and it's clean. No more having to manually dump 20 dry pounds of now-soaking-wet grain
