"Piles of Crap" Brewstands

[Cpt_Kirks]

I love looking though the gallery.

I really love some of the things being used a brewstands.

Filing cabinets, ladders, stacked milk cartons, lawn chairs...it's GREAT!

How about some pics of the stuff you have piled up to get the water and wort to flow?

 

[Yooper]

I don't have a picture! But I can explain my "old" stand.

The BK is on the burner, the MLT on the picnic table, and the HLT on top of the living room's coffee table on top of the picnic table. The key to the whole set up was the coffee table fitting so perfectly on top of my picnic table in the middle of the yard. Add in a few garden hoses, the chiller, and various buckets and it looked like "The Grapes Of Wrath- Beer Brewing Version".

 

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

Sorry no pics either, but mine is not even a real stand per say. KAB6 to heat the HLT, A turkey fryer standing on top of 3 cinder blocks, to heat the MLT, and a hurricane burner for the boil. I pump the sparge water into the MLT, and gravity drain the MLT into the boil kettle. Use the pump to push wort through the chiller and into the fermenter. Works great for me so far, but I keep looking at stand thinking, maybe I should just do that.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

Sorry no pics either, but mine is not even a real stand per say. KAB6 to heat the HLT, A turkey fryer standing on top of 3 cinder blocks, to heat the MLT, and a hurricane burner for the boil. I pump the sparge water into the MLT, and gravity drain the MLT into the boil kettle. Use the pump to push wort through the chiller and into the fermenter. Works great for me so far, but I keep looking at stand thinking, maybe I should just do that.

Jeez Ed, Blichmann won't cut you a deal on a stand?

 

[david_42]

This is how I do most of my brewing:

That's Bertha's butt in the lower left. Many times I'll BBQ at the same time.

 

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

Jeez Ed, Blichmann won't cut you a deal on a stand?

Yeah I could get one, both that type of thing tends to get the SWMBO's attention. She did not notice the 20 gallon Boilermaker that magically appeared in the brewery, so you never know.

 

[caspio]

My old brew "stand"

I figured it was easier to lift the kettle up there after the mash when it was relatively cool, rather than after the boil when it was super hot. Plus having it that high up helped speed the gravity feed along. These days I have a bling stainless stand and a pump, no more lifting over 120lbs of scalding hot equipment for me.

 

[Bobby_M]

 

[smitty2324]

Bobby M, you deserve an A for the use of that ladder.

 

[bendavanza]

Here's what I used before I built the Tree:

 

[tlarham]

This is the "good" version of the setup. When set up in the garage, it is far more cluttered. Mash tun goes up on the board -- it was being cleaned while this pic was snapped.

 

[weirdboy]

I improvise a two tier stand using the kitchen table and the floor. If I'm brewing outside, I have another similar table that I use on the patio. Since I'm only brewing 5 gallon or smaller batches, I don't mind a little manual lifting.

 

[mmb]

No stand yet, mostly just tables and shlepping water around with buckets. Must get pump plumbed!

 

[MTpilot]

 

[Mirage]

DING DING DING!! We have a winner!!! Amazing!!

 

[mariojr]

Is that a Suba-brew?

 

[Ragutis]

My boil stand is two benches with tin to protect the wood.

The sparge is done on my bar.

Here's a rough sketch of what my brewery will look like by summer 2011.

 

[scrambledegg81]

Is that a Suba-brew?

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

 

[weirdboy]

Is that a Suba-brew?

It's a Suba-Brew Improvisa Sport

 

[HABIT]

I knew I wasn't the only one . . .

One time I used the front of a 25' pontoon on a trailer, the back of my '76 Vette and then into a turkey fryer pot over a cut up Top Hat garage heater with bricks to level it out . . . It was a Euchre party last summer . . . I think the cheap camera ended up in the bonfire. Something about one neighbors boyfriend with another neighbor. I wish she was still around . . .

Ahhh Memories

 

[JediJoel]

Hey I know that corner! You sure are close to the brewstore huh? I've got family that lives over by Lewis and 24th.

 

[MTpilot]

Yep on the same block. Pretty good spot to live if you're a homebrewer. I have a HBS on the same block. A brewery at 2 blocks, and 3 more within 7 blocks.

 

[HABIT]

1300 miles away and you guys just meet . . . What a great place to hang out.
Now if I could just bump into that little Mexican girl I saw brewing in Clewiston FL last summer. I'd be happy too.

 

[mordantly]

sorry habit, i snaked her! and she can brew.....



i like the subra-brew!

 

[Arkador]

I have a pic somewhere of my CFC sitting on a diaper box, before i got my pump, and was gravity feeding it.

 

[kmlavoy]

Wow, I thought mine was ghetto, so I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Sometimes reading this site can give a guy a complex. I didn't take a picture, but I had to change mine around yesterday to use some sawhorses for my gravity fed lautering. I was afraid my new stainless steel MLT was going to cave in the $5 Target plastic picnic table.

 

[cowgo]

Backyard table, chair, propane burner stand "3 tier" ghetto brewery. Worked well. Gone to an indoor single tier electric brewery since then.

 

[eriktlupus]

man i can't find pics of mine even from the preds brewday last fall. i know there was a couple taken of my rig.

anyhoo it goes like this mash tun on a milk crate, coffee urn hlt on an old kitchen cart i picked up at a gs, and kettle on the turkey fryer at the same level as the mash tun with a toolbox mounted pump to work the wort between the tun and kettle.

it's been modified from this aspect since i was the proud recipient of a 10g polarware kettle for x-mas. a two burner party boiler now contains both the hlt and kettle with the mash tun on the old table with hot water being pumped up to it.

 

[trailblazer]

im gonna have to post a pic of my setup. it would fit perfectly into this thread.

we need to sticky this right beneath the "show us your brewstands" thread.

 

[stevehaun]

No pics. I used to set my cooler mlt on top of the Waste Management trash can and use gravity to drain into my BK on a cabelas propane burner. Worked great!