My son, who got me into brewing, has limited space and time and likes to do smaller batches. He really likes the simplicity that my 5 gallon Home Depot water cooler mash tun provides so I decided to build him a smaller version to meet his needs.
I started with a 2 gallon Igloo cooler shown here.
Here are all the parts I used for the build.
This is the only part that came from my own store of 'Stuff'. It's the drain plug from one of those really big coolers from Costco. I was originally going to squeeze in the correct sized copper tube like you see in other builds but I found these other commonly found Home Depot parts that fit it perfectly.
Here is how the parts will be arranged after they are assembled.
The first thing was to remove the original thumb valve.
And replace it with the drain from a much larger Igloo Ice Chest.
Then came the hose barb.
Continued in next post
I started with a 2 gallon Igloo cooler shown here.
![CIMG9159.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/cf9/cf9df2335eed674a4643e68e5c34a1c9.jpg)
Here are all the parts I used for the build.
![CIMG9154-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/ed2/ed2194c0aa47aee635fcaaa146603c96.jpg)
![CIMG9155-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/84b/84b380964593f0df68184da3257fe6c0.jpg)
![CIMG9156-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/d9c/d9c75ed0928a852d22d7c4abd19dc616.jpg)
This is the only part that came from my own store of 'Stuff'. It's the drain plug from one of those really big coolers from Costco. I was originally going to squeeze in the correct sized copper tube like you see in other builds but I found these other commonly found Home Depot parts that fit it perfectly.
![CIMG9157-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/9b4/9b4241fedb84849b42eb37d6e71f5500.jpg)
Here is how the parts will be arranged after they are assembled.
![CIMG9162.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/a57/a576b73e5425b8ade2f3f7b9fe3e0870.jpg)
The first thing was to remove the original thumb valve.
![CIMG9160.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/5af/5af314b2833d5319f4a18fe9a18e108a.jpg)
And replace it with the drain from a much larger Igloo Ice Chest.
![CIMG9161.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/a7e/a7e5901b6e9d11bbe53e02b9b2ca9017.jpg)
Then came the hose barb.
![CIMG9164.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/273/273d42082fee536301c83fee768df57c.jpg)
Continued in next post