Show off your mash tun

[arturo7]

Here's my baby. Fashioned from a 15 gallon HDPE drum.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/15-gallon-mlt-176701/

 

[mariojr]

This is my MLT, there are many like her, but this one is mine!

I like the cap in the end of your braid. Pretty slick and simple.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

This is my MLT, there are many like her, but this one is mine!

Awesome, I can't believe I missed that the first time I saw your post.

This is my mash tun, this is my gun. This is for brewing, this is for fun.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

I like the cap in the end of your braid. Pretty slick and simple.

Thank you,I was looking for a nice way to weigh the braid, and this seemed the best option IMO.

Awesome, I can't believe I missed that the first time I saw your post.

This is my mash tun, this is my gun. This is for brewing, this is for fun.

Awesome! I was hoping someone would catch it...great movie!

 

[Malticulous]

I've gone through a bunch. This is most of them.

I did my first AG in this zapap.

My old fly sparge set up. I got the bottom for Jaybird. I beat it over a paint can to dome it up.

I heat molded the dip tube in the PEX. This worked very well.

This is my current MLT. It's been used over a hundred times now. Works like a champ. It is a little better than a braid. It has siphon to less than 1/4 inch and is more rigid.

 

[Hex]

https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41564&cat=all&ppuser=45382

Technically speaking, it's a Lauter Tun, because I direct fire the mash on the stove-top.

 

[extra_medium]

can anyone offer me advice or a finished product where this is used as a MT? it will be part of a HERMS setup, so it will not be direct fired allowing me to put in a bottom drain.

 

[Ace_Club]

Here's mine, a 70qt Coleman Xtreme cooler. A 1/2" SS bolt weighs down the free end of the 3/4" SS water heater braid.

 

[BendBrewer]

 

[dstar26t]

can anyone offer me advice or a finished product where this is used as a MT? it will be part of a HERMS setup, so it will not be direct fired allowing me to put in a bottom drain.

Invert the keg and use the spear opening as your bottom drain utilizing tri-clover fittings. Then cut the bottom (now the top) of the keg out to dump in grain. Cutting through the rubber coating may get ugly.

 

[SAMPLER]

Anyone use copper manifold in a Sanke MT? Got pics?

 

[extra_medium]

Anyone use copper manifold in a Sanke MT? Got pics?

I believe that I will be doing that as part of my next project. I will document the process and post in a new thread.

 

[509inc]

Sorry for the huge pics.

 

[Monster Mash]

30 gallon electric mash tun with HERMS.......

 

[SAMPLER]

30 gallon electric mash tun with HERMS.......

What length SS tubing you using there? Simple and effective, seems like something I need to consider.

 

[a_potter]

Here's mine. Pretty standard stuff but I like it.
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/02010.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0199.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0189.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0177.JPG

 

[Monster Mash]

What length SS tubing you using there? Simple and effective, seems like something I need to consider.

I believe it is a 36" braid, it doesn't need to be that long but I had it laying around and it works well.

 

[Toecutter]

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[FireRescueFL]

Here's mine. Pretty standard stuff but I like it.
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/02010.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0199.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0189.JPG
https://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/gallery/data/500/medium/0177.JPG

If that's your idea of "pretty standard," I'd love to see your idea of "deluxe!"

---Chris

 

[a_potter]

I meant pretty standard compared to some of the rigs I've seen on here.

 

[wilserbrewer]

Not the tun i'm currently using, but i always liked the spartan, simple, and funtional concept. Worked very well for batch sparging. No valve required, up is off, down is on.

 

[Nightbiker]

Basic tun, really. Temp control is via coil/heat exchanger in HLT, its a 9 gal. SS pot with bubble/foil insulation on sides and bottom. Hard-plumbed into the system. Grain resides on a false-bottom. Works like a charm -I only wish it were larger (and I'll get around to addressing that sometime late this summer)

 

[kegtoe]

my cooler MT

 

[bgs8884]

38n quart Igloo Wheelie cooler.

The Wheelie Cool doesn't have a spigot built in. Im assuming you drilled your own hole. Did you have any difficulties with that?

 

[horseinmay]

I like the cap in the end of your braid. Pretty slick and simple.

I like this design a lot. How did you cut the SS Braid so cleanly? I can't get mine from being a frayed mess.

 

[bovineblitz]

Recently replaced the grommet in my mash tun, figured I'd pick up a couple street elbows and a T to spice it up a bit.

 

[BrewerinBR]

Manifold and Tun -- used a gate valve because it it what I had. Comes apart easy, controls the flow very well.

 

[Fizzycist]

Just finished this up and used it for the first time. Daddy's little brewers were at least as excited as me, I couldn't get them to quit fondling it. 48 quart with a loose copper manifold.

 

[shelly_belly]

A friend gave me this 5 gal with a Phils Phalse bottom. He made over 300 batches in it and I've made around 100. Largest grainbill so far 13# 13oz.

 

[SpottedDogBrewing]

150qt.