My 70 qt Mash Tun

[67coupe390]

Thanks FSR, I think Ill stick to Batch for now.

Thats 40+ mins. to sit and enjoy more beer!!!!

 

[bigben]

Hey EricS, did you just get the regular Kewler Kit bulkhead, or did you have to get the XL version?

 

[EricS]

Bigben, I just got the regular KewlerKit bulkhead, the LHBS did not have the XL in stock. It seemed to work fine though. When installing make sure and read the instructions on the correct way to tighten otherwise you will ruin the o ring.

 

[EricS]

Finally got some time to post these. This was from 2 weekends ago, brew buddies and mine 1st AG. Brew buddy has same type of setup.


Our setup for the day, two hot water tanks up top and our Mash Tuns below. He was doing Ed Wort's Haus Pale Ale, and I was doing Yooper's Anchor Steam Clone.


Adding the Grain and mixing with my gheto home made paddle.


Vorlauf


Fly sparging in action.


Starting the boil. His is in the background, mine is in the front. The pot in the middle is our Frankenbrew.... Don't ask....

 

[newbrewnut]

EricS,
Question on your Sparge arm, Why did you go with CPVC rather than copper?
It seems to me that copper is actually cheaper than CPVC. Thanks for all of the pictures, they are helping me out setting up my MLT.

 

[EricS]

Not sure where you are buying your copper or cpvc from but the cpvc was a lot cheaper. A bag of 10 cpvc elbows was around $1.50, copper elbows were about $.70 each. Good luck on buidling your mash tun. If you have any questions about mine don't hesitate to ask.

 

[newbrewnut]

Not sure where you are buying your copper or cpvc from but the cpvc was a lot cheaper. A bag of 10 cpvc elbows was around $1.50, copper elbows were about $.70 each. Good luck on buidling your mash tun. If you have any questions about mine don't hesitate to ask.

I am looking at McMaster, The CPVC seems to be more expensive from what i can tell. Just to verify, you are using 3/4" tubing, correct? Thanks again for doing my dirty work.

 

[EricS]

I used 1/2 inch for all copper and cpvc. If you have a Menards in your area, check out their prices.

 

[jacko623]

How much copper piping did you buy?