How do you brew?

[Sandimas]

BIAB with cheap eBay stockpots.

 

[Slid]

Grainfather Mk2, no controller, but a practical stopper for the grain at mashing in and sparging.

 

[Alex.mc]

Robobrew 3, and now using BIAB in the main grain tube. I get good efficiencies and the re-circulation pump and temp control makes things very easy.

 

[gar]

Stove top biab.
And the odd kit here and there.

 

[matt76]

12L batches - I suppose it's BIAB if you have to give it a name, though the bag is only used as a big sieve. I mash & dunk sparge in the brew kettle in the oven, use 2 x 2L electric kettles to heat the water and then boil on the kitchen hob.

 

[foxbat]

BIAB in a 38l stainless thermopot converted with a ball valve and 2.4kW kettle element. Dunk sparge in a separate stainless stock pot.

 

[skulltat280]

BIAB, homemade electric mash tun/boiler and plastic fv. I'm very new though, only done 2 brews so far

Have an inkbird itc-100 but wasn't happy with it in the mash so whenever I get a fridge I'll use it for that

 

[RichK]

BIAB with 30l pot on a Buffalo induction hob. Then into 2nd hand fridge with Inkbird & tube heater.

 

[uDicko]

Grainfather

 

[Brew Dad]

Robobrew 3. Approx ten batches in, efficiency all over the map, but much better tasting beer than extract.

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

Explain "mildly"...

I read it as semi-tumescent

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

Blimey it seems like a while since I brewed.....but....here goes...

Picnic box tun for the mash, then sparge into a Brupaks boiler - which is very good. Into a plaggy bucket which goes in me brewfrodge.

 

[Hengoedbrewer]

I haven't brewed since birth of my daughter in September 2017. I had planned on an extract Zombie Dust clone but finding the cost of ingredients prohibitive; so am going to have a first go at an all grain BIAB with a 10L citra SMaSH probably next bank holiday. Got bag / grains / hops / yeast / portable induction to brew on now- all I need is a 15L stock pot suitable for induction, which I have sourced on Amazon and will pick up shortly, and a sieve large enough to strain wort. Will be fermenting in the box room in a water bath, with an inkbird for temp control.

 

[Beersort]

23 litre batches.

Use a peco mashing bin as an HLT. Mash in a 45 litre picnic cool box. Use a spare FV to batch sparge into. Use above mashing bin for boiling the wort. Works for me.

Did once consider a grainfather but I would probably not be able to eat for a month! I brew to save money and drink beers I like to drink.

 

[PeterB]

Klarstein Maischfest with my own pump for recirc which I mainly use for mashing out, verlauf and pumping to my conical fermenter. I have a plastic tub with elements added in for my HLT, controlled by a Inkbird IPB-16. I also use a hop spider.

I aim to either increase to a larger all-in-one or add a proper PID to my Klarstein (not decided). The Maischfest temperature controller has a 3 deg C inaccuracy.

 

[Lawrence22]

Grainfather

 

[GerritT]

16 liter batches: 20 liter pot for mashing and boiling, a bucket with double bottom for inbetween mashing and boiling, also brewbag because of less mess, and that's it.

 

[regsmith]

Mash in a 60 lt thermopot with false bottom, 60 lt plastic HLT with one element,boil in a 100 lt stainless steel pot with tap and two elements and ferment in a 70 lt stainless steel pot. Aim to make 56 lt finished brew

 

[SteveH]

Started out doing stove-top BIAB, recently switched to a Robobrew v3.1

 

[the_quick]

Coolbox for mash, than into boiler made from fermentation bucket with 2 cheap. kettle elements. Cooled with homemade copper cooler, fermented in the bucket. Simple but works !