Hey all,
This week I've been looking at what it'll take to go AG from extract, and I made my mash/lauter tun and wort chiller (I'd been getting by by doing condensed wort boils and chilling in an ice bath in the sink).
I've taken pictures, and totalled up what it all cost me, not too much for having a 50qt m/l tun and a 50' chiller, $130 all told. It was about 50 for the 50' 3/8" copper (Home Depot is moving, so the $50 coil was $35), and the rest was in fittings and whatnot. The coolers, one 20qt, one 50qt were 40 together, 40 for the cpvc pipe, fittings, glue, and hole saw. The pics are here. (vBulletin only wants me to post 4 max.)
I used a 1/8" bit for the sparge manifold, and a dremel to make the notches for the lauter. The pics are pretty self-explanatory I think, I just looked around the net and saw what others had done in their pics and tried to replicate it. I'll let you all know how well it works in a couple days after I've used it (Just started my yeast starter today, gotta give it a couple days). The only thing that's not pictured is the hoses that go from my sparge tank to my m/l tun to my boil kettle, and the i/o hoses for the wort cooler, but they're in the price of everything as well.
Of course, if anyone has any comments or words of wisdom before I start my first AG batch, those would be appreciated as well.
-Aaron
This week I've been looking at what it'll take to go AG from extract, and I made my mash/lauter tun and wort chiller (I'd been getting by by doing condensed wort boils and chilling in an ice bath in the sink).
I've taken pictures, and totalled up what it all cost me, not too much for having a 50qt m/l tun and a 50' chiller, $130 all told. It was about 50 for the 50' 3/8" copper (Home Depot is moving, so the $50 coil was $35), and the rest was in fittings and whatnot. The coolers, one 20qt, one 50qt were 40 together, 40 for the cpvc pipe, fittings, glue, and hole saw. The pics are here. (vBulletin only wants me to post 4 max.)
I used a 1/8" bit for the sparge manifold, and a dremel to make the notches for the lauter. The pics are pretty self-explanatory I think, I just looked around the net and saw what others had done in their pics and tried to replicate it. I'll let you all know how well it works in a couple days after I've used it (Just started my yeast starter today, gotta give it a couple days). The only thing that's not pictured is the hoses that go from my sparge tank to my m/l tun to my boil kettle, and the i/o hoses for the wort cooler, but they're in the price of everything as well.
Of course, if anyone has any comments or words of wisdom before I start my first AG batch, those would be appreciated as well.
-Aaron