New Mast Tun A SUCCESS!!

In my last post I showed pic of the newest piece of our brewing family. We have now brewed an IPA and a Brown Ale using the new mash tun and I have to say I am very impressed with the simplicity and functionality of the design. Also, it has to be the cheapest piece of brewing equipment I have ever made! If you are looking for a inexpensive way to switch to all grain brewing, I highly recommend you build one of these!

Next on my list I am going to tackle the half barrel keg modification. I'm already a couple weeks into the research and so far what I have learned is do your research on this before you start cutting. There are a couple of really good YouTube videos that show different ways to do this correctly and safely. A plasma cutter appears to be the easiest method but a grinder or even a Dremel can be used. so far a pretty good link looks to be here www.homebrewing.com/. I'll post pics as soon as I have a finished product.

A Cheap Simple Mash and Lauter Tun

 A brewing friend found this link and gave it too me last week. I had wanted to make one of these for a while but I had never seen this article and had no clue how easy it was! I'll let you follow the link and read it yourself but this was a really fun and simple project to do and the instructions were spot on.  If you're a brewer and don't use HomeBrewTalk.Com this is an awesome place to get ideas and find all kinds of mods to make your equipment work more for you. Here where to find this build http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/  It's going to get it's first true mash run in about a week. I'll let you know how things go!