Brewfacturing: StopGap HopStop

Right, this idea is not intended to be useful for anything other than a stopgap situation. I made mine because I had a brew planned and all my hops were suddenly only available in pellets. I use a standard looking drilled copper pipe filter in my copper – a Brupaks style gadget attached to my [...]

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Brewfacturing: New 70L Stainless Steel Boiler Project

To the layman it’s just a big cooking pot and a load of plumbing spares. But this little lot could soon become an extremely exciting new addition to the Boxshed Brewery. Not only will it allow us to boil 50L+ brewlengths sufficient to fill proper pub kegs, it will also free up the old 32L [...]

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Brewfacturing: 50L Stainless Steel Mashtun

Finally I managed to find the time and gather the equipment to put together a shiny new stainless steel mashtun, and I’m very pleased with the results (although the first brew with the new beast will be the real proof of my amateurish construction skills.) I bought a 50L stainless steel Thermobox from a German [...]

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Brewfacturing: Mashtun manifold

I’ve had a big project in mind for some time to upgrade various bits of my brewing kit to higher capacity stainless steel. I’m not looking for anything electronic or flash at this stage, but I do want to make cleaning easier and brewdays less messy by using vessels with a little more headroom. The first vessel [...]

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