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Ugliest Mash Tun in the World!
So, I've finally put together my AG system and am going to test it out tomorrow on a German Hefeweisen batch. Well here is what I've come up with. I used a water heater insulation blanket and cut it to fit around a 6.5 gal bucket and used duct tape to secure the insulation to the bucket and to prevent fiber glass particles from getting into the mash. I also insulated the lid; this thing better not loose heat!!! 
I attached a brass ball valve to the bucket and am using a 12" stainless steel false bottom. The sparge arm is made from vinyl tubing with 1/16" holes drilled into it connected to a brass T fitting. Here goes nothing!!!
Duct Tape: Is there anything it can't do?
very nice!! let us know how it works out!
I used the same material for the jacket to put around my mash tun. It holds the heat great for the first 35-45 minutes, then drops like 5-6 deg in the last 15 min of mash. Reading so much about conversion in last months BYO and other threads they say conversion is complete after 25-35 min anyhow. The hardest thing is dialing in the strike temp, I lose about 15 deg transferring my strike water to the tun even after priming it. But once it is there, rock steady. Good luck!
Beautiful ghetto gear!!!
It looks like you are brewing on the moon!
Good luck with the Maiden Voyage Moonlight Hefe.
Hey, that's a great name Brewchez!
The brewing went very well, although the original gravity came out a little low (1.041 instead of 1.048). I think this was due to sparging too fast and that I didn't boil down enough. I was trying fly sparging and it only took about 30 min, which most likely cause channeling and the like. I'm making a single hopped simcoe american pale ale in two weeks and will be trying batch sparging then to see if I can get my efficiency up and make my brewing life a whole lot easier.
The mash tun worked great! I hit my mash temp at 154F and after 60 min the temp was still 154F, at least at the top of the grain bed. All-in-all, brewing AG is good fun and I think this will become my primary way of brewing. Cheers - 1n1
Brewing all grain is more fun. A little more involved and more things to figure out, but overall its more hands on. I like that part of AG, more control albeit sometimes more frustrating.
The brewing went very well, although the original gravity came out a little low (1.041 instead of 1.048). I think this was due to sparging too fast and that I didn't boil down enough. I was trying fly sparging and it only took about 30 min, which most likely cause channeling and the like. I'm making a single hopped simcoe american pale ale in two weeks and will be trying batch sparging then to see if I can get my efficiency up and make my brewing life a whole lot easier.
The mash tun worked great! I hit my mash temp at 154F and after 60 min the temp was still 154F, at least at the top of the grain bed. All-in-all, brewing AG is good fun and I think this will become my primary way of brewing. Cheers - 1n1
What kind of mash did you use? If you used a single infusion on a Hefeweisen that could explain the low OG.
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