Help please with first all grain setup

[merris999]

Arriving this evening is my first supply to make an all grain 1 gal batch. I have made an mash tun, a sparge head (sprinkler thing) and about to make a stand for it all.
I have a 10 liter urn for my hot water supply, but the tap is conical I have tried using a piece of 22mm water pipe cut and heated to mold the shape but I can't get jubilee clip to hold, any ideas how to attach a pipe to conect to the sparge arm? I have mainly 15mm conectors and some copper and plastic speed fit 15mm pipe. Thanks in advance, I will post a picture when the stand is finished. Take care, Mike

 

[cushyno]

For your first batch you really don't need anything fancy or fiddly. A single stockpot and a FV will do for vessels.

Post up some photos so it's possible to see where you're going with the DIY.

 

[An Ankoù]

Arriving this evening is my first supply to make an all grain 1 gal batch. I have made an mash tun, a sparge head (sprinkler thing) and about to make a stand for it all.
I have a 10 liter urn for my hot water supply, but the tap is conical I have tried using a piece of 22mm water pipe cut and heated to mold the shape but I can't get jubilee clip to hold, any ideas how to attach a pipe to conect to the sparge arm? I have mainly 15mm conectors and some copper and plastic speed fit 15mm pipe. Thanks in advance, I will post a picture when the stand is finished. Take care, Mike

Hi Mike, Appreciate you're trying to do it all right, but you need to prioritise. A sparge head is pretty much down the bottom of the list. If you were doing a 50 litre batch, it might be worth it, but with a one litre batch the grain bed isn;t really going to be merit one. I'd use a jug of warm water and sprinkle it over the grain until you;ve collected enough wort. Ask yourself which is the more important: the DIY or the beer.

 

[merris999]

Thanks for the replies. I managed to over come the conical tap connection, I found some old aquarium 1/2 " tube and I cut and smoothed a semi circle out of the top of the jubilee clip the diameter of horizontal part of the tap out of the vessel.
As I am on a extremely low budget (I'm my wife's carer) I've been buying bits and pieces as and when to finally be able to do 23/25 batches. At the moment big pans and heat source are my problem, I have an induction hob so struggling to find sufficient large pots suitable or gas boiling ring and cheaper pans or convert a beer keg I found instead of the rocket stove patio heater the wife wanted

 

[Deathstar]

Agree with those above, try and keep it simple. On my old set up I had a rotating sparge arm, but as good as it looked spinning away. It never really gave enough flow. Now I just carefully pour the water carefully onto the grain bed. Practice getting your technique right on smaller batches then progress to a larger setup when cash allows.

Small batch brewing will allow you to experiment more, and have less wastage if you brew a duffer.
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