ScubaSteve
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Yup, lots of dough for that one though.
Amen to that. It's nice, but it's still the same basic design we're talking about here. A pot, basket, and a pump. A BCS-460 is way more capable than the simple PID/timer unit the Speidel uses, and even if you added swagelok and triclover fittings, and used a blichmann boilermaker, you'd still be at about 50% of the cost of a Spiedel. To each his own, I guess.....for me a big part of the fun of brewing is learning new things and building stuff.
One thing I noticed about the Speidel, is that it has bolts on the side of the basket...they hold it up on a flip-down "rail". You could potentially eliminate the winch.
Funny thing is, the Aussies had this same discussion 4 years ago! :http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11046