Yea! Upgrades!

[biertourist]

Brewery upgrades, yea!

My wife got me a 3 stage water filter for my birthday; 1st stage a sediment filter followed by a 2 stage carbon block filter for chlorine removal.  Seattle's water is almost as soft as RO / DI water and they only treat it with chlorine and not chloramine so I didn't need an RO membrane nor the chloramine reducing filter.

She also got me a Monster Mill 2.0 malt mill and hopper that I've set to a 0.040" gap -I played around with malt conditioning and the husks really are way more intact so I'm officially malt conditioning every batch now.  I just mill my base malt which I'm now buying in 50 lb bags and I mill the rest at the home brew store down the street.  -Their mill leaves the husks more intact than mine but they have a $1,900 3 roller mill where the first 2 rollers are driven by a gear so that they turn at the same RPM.

The stainless backsplash is just two 3 foot by 4 foot sections of thin #2 brushed stainless that I got from onlinemetals.com for $96 USD; I then used simple velcro-like "command strips" to quickly and easily mount it on the garage wall.  -Easiest and cheapest 6' by 4' stainless backsplash EVER!



Adam

[Ciderhead]

Whoa,  required.
And as I say to my missus you can never have enough Mash Tuns picnic coolers.
Even has temp dial on plate chiller, very posh!

[biertourist]

Whoa,  required.
And as I say to my missus you can never have enough Mash Tuns picnic coolers.
Even has temp dial on plate chiller, very posh!

The funny part of that pic is that the picnic coolers are all picnic coolers; none of them has ever been used as a mashtun; that was just a good place to store them!

The plate chiller was given to be by a food science buddy in Dublin who I taught how to brew before I moved away; he inherited a lot of my brewing equipment and he gave me a plate chiller that some salesman had given him for free.  I just slapped the thermometer in it as I had a spare one laying around.


Adam