Cheap Mash tun

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

Found this with a quick google search..

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Brewery-for-Under-100-STEP-1-/

Looks fairly managable for a fledgling brewer like myself. No messing about with SS false bottoms. Anyone see anything wrong with this design? Might give it whirl in the new year...

[Simon_]

If you're looking for cheap and simple, BIAB is as cheap and simple as it gets

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

That's true I suppose. I have done similar in the past when making wine out of various things - big bag full of the raw materials - but never really liked it. Always found it really messy... Maybe I was doing it wrong!

[BrewBilly]

I built this, it was very straight forward. I did one brew with evrything assembled, the one thing is that its prone to stick during the sparge. I eventually made a filter with holes in copper pipe, done very easy brews with the modified setup

Cheers
Andy

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

Thanks Andy - so in the end do you only use the one bucket just with a load of holes in the copper pipe?

[Qs]

Small bazooka screen is as cheap as an extra bucket anyway, just get one of them.

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

Yeah I was wondering about bazookas actually - couldn't find any reference to them on this forum so thought they mightn't be used. So they work alright yeah? They don't get squished flat by the weight of the grain?

[Qs]

I use a 12" bazooka and its been absolutely grand for me, has never stuck even on wheat beers.

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

Cool, thanks Qs. Might give that a bash so. Are they flexible? Just thinking the bottom of the bucket is probably less than 12" so can you bend then round easily enough?