DIY All Grain Brewery

[jdt199]

Cheers pdtnc,

Yesterday the brewery had its first outing for my first AG brew! It was a Tim Taylor Landlord clone. It all went well (I hope) and the equiptment worked perfectly. The CFC cooler was amazing. It was so efficient, that when I started it was cooling the wort to 10deg! I had to turn the flow of water right down to keep it at 20deg. It cooled the whole 25L in 15 mins!

Anyway hers the post on tyhe Brewday forum
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=19269&p=221895#p221895

[prolix]

jtd199, great stuff mate, love the pics.

[ajh800]

Brilliant stuff JDT199. Finished my mash tun, cooler and about to built the HLT. Just been to ASDA and bought TWO kettles for £3.00 each. Cordless but found some kettle leads. Using a 33ltr fermentation bin for HLT Al

[andysmok]

Good stuff, I'm not sure if the mash tun was worth the hassel of making as you could of bought H&G's for a few quid more than your final bill, plus its is bigger and of better quality.
As for the boiler, I think this is a great saving and doesn't look to hard to make. Well done

[jdt199]

Good stuff, I'm not sure if the mash tun was worth the hassel of making as you could of bought H&G's for a few quid more than your final bill, plus its is bigger and of better quality.
As for the boiler, I think this is a great saving and doesn't look to hard to make. Well done

Well the H&G mash tun is a shade over £47 and my mash tun came in at around £27 if you include the copper pipe but I would agree with you regarding the quality, the argos coolbox isn't great. I think in future if I was building a mash tun I would look at a insulateed fementor bucket with a false bottom, Daab style. It would be cheaper and have capaity for 10 gal brews easily. It would be less of a fiddle to build as well.

[dcq1974]

What a brilliant way to make a cheap boiler!

I will indeed be copying the design

I take it all supermarket budget kettles have elements with 40mm diameter?

Making stuff is nearly (maybe more) as fun as the actual creation of the masterbrew!

[andysmok]

Well the H&G mash tun is a shade over £47 and my mash tun came in at around £27 if you include the copper pipe but I would agree with you regarding the quality, the argos coolbox isn't great. I think in future if I was building a mash tun I would look at a insulateed fementor bucket with a false bottom, Daab style. It would be cheaper and have capaity for 10 gal brews easily. It would be less of a fiddle to build as well.[/quote]



No i'll stand corrected as you have a far better tap on your mash tun. Half price sounds good.

[brewmasterflex]

How do you clean your manifold I have seen simular designs with a rubber tube inbetween and a jubilee clip so you can remove the maniford and clean and sterlise it ?

[brewmasterflex]

I am thinking of making a simular cooler, Probably a stopid question, How do you get the wort pumped around it ?

[jdt199]

How do you clean your manifold I have seen simular designs with a rubber tube inbetween and a jubilee clip so you can remove the maniford and clean and sterlise it ?

As I push fitted it all toghether its quite simple really, I just pull it apart, rinse under the tap and put it back together again

I am thinking of making a simular cooler, Probably a stopid question, How do you get the wort pumped around it ?

Again, really simple, I use the free gravity Newton brought us all those years back. I find that if I hook it up to the bouler with a couple of foot of 10mm syphon tubing I get a bit of a syphon effect as well which helps drain the boiler below the deadspace level. It managages to drain through and cool the wort in about 10-15 minutes with only about a sink and a half of cold water passed through it. Then I use the hot water to clean the boiler!

[brewmasterflex]

Wow thats pretty good, I might give that a try I just ordered some Campingaz Coolboxes, as Argos have now changed theirs to a 24 Litre and the quality is rubbish, I got Campinggaz 30 Litre ones for £14 not bad. Did yo get any leaks by just pushing it together or did you solder some of the joints.

The design I was going to make was on 18000feet and he seems to solder it and then connect the manifold to exit tube with some plastic and a jubilee clip

[jdt199]

Wow thats pretty good, I might give that a try I just ordered some Campingaz Coolboxes, as Argos have now changed theirs to a 24 Litre and the quality is rubbish, I got Campinggaz 30 Litre ones for £14 not bad. Did yo get any leaks by just pushing it together or did you solder some of the joints.

The design I was going to make was on 18000feet and he seems to solder it and then connect the manifold to exit tube with some plastic and a jubilee clip

Well the tank connector and ball valve use olive compression fittings so just need ptfe tape on the threads and a good tighten with a wrench and the compression fittings do the job. Obviously the manifold is supposed to leak by design so push fitting is not an issue.

[Long-Haired_brewer]

Well i have the argos kettle in my boiler works fine since my uncle raped it, by that i mean removed the regulator or what ever it is called. It takes about 20 minutes to boil but i would recommend a 10 gallon bucket.

EDIT: Oh and get a proper 13 amp lead from ebay.

[brewmasterflex]

THANKS AGAIN

Just one more thing Did you make your manifold out of 15mm pipe or 22mm pipe, I was going to use 22mm??

[brewmasterflex]

I am trying to copy your design for the mashtun, is there any benefit in having the exit pipe on the manifold going over the centre of it and exiting the opposite end of the manifold to the tank connector. I was thing of connecting straight from the T Piece straight out through the side of the coolbox if that makes sense. On your design doesnt the filtered mash have to travel "uphill" slightly before exit ???

see
http://www.18000feet.com/coolbox/cool_box_mash_tun.htm

Also I know I already asked this but does it matter if I use 22mm or 15 mm for the manifold, At present I am going for 15mm