Stone Cold
Landlord.
last time i posted about my build i was looking for advice, now i have got a few jobs done so i thought i would post some pics of the progress. I have to say building a microscopic brewery has been so much fun.
so this is my kettle on the left and mash tun on the right. cutting the tops off was far easier than i imagined to be with a good disk but i think the ratio was one cutting disk per keg. making the tap hole was a hell of a lot harder than imagined I dont think a single one of my drill bits was sharp enough but eventully got a small enough hole through them then used a hole cutter press thingything.
this is inside the tun i have the filter set up slightly different to other people in the way that i decided to have the side with the slits facing down i did this because in my little head of theory i thought the grain will be pushing down and you dont want it getting clogged so am hoping this will help that.
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today i made a false bottom i used a 2 or 3mm thick plate of copper and drilled loads of wholes all over it. it fits real nice and snug very pleased with it. I also got the grinder out again and did some hacking and made handles and cut some V's so i can get the bottom in.
my next job is a counter-flow chiller i have bought the copper pipe (10m) and an assortment of the appropriate fittings and the outer pipe is in the post. ill post a picture of that when its together.
anyone got any advice on how to improve on this? can you see any flaws in the design?
so this is my kettle on the left and mash tun on the right. cutting the tops off was far easier than i imagined to be with a good disk but i think the ratio was one cutting disk per keg. making the tap hole was a hell of a lot harder than imagined I dont think a single one of my drill bits was sharp enough but eventully got a small enough hole through them then used a hole cutter press thingything.

this is inside the tun i have the filter set up slightly different to other people in the way that i decided to have the side with the slits facing down i did this because in my little head of theory i thought the grain will be pushing down and you dont want it getting clogged so am hoping this will help that.
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today i made a false bottom i used a 2 or 3mm thick plate of copper and drilled loads of wholes all over it. it fits real nice and snug very pleased with it. I also got the grinder out again and did some hacking and made handles and cut some V's so i can get the bottom in.

my next job is a counter-flow chiller i have bought the copper pipe (10m) and an assortment of the appropriate fittings and the outer pipe is in the post. ill post a picture of that when its together.
anyone got any advice on how to improve on this? can you see any flaws in the design?