New Stainless Steel Mash Tun

[rappell]

I was tired of the large wrinkle in the side of my 10 gal cooler MT so I figured I'd just make a 15 gal stainless. Got a Bayou Classic 1060, drilled, dimpled and soldered a coupler in as shown in the soldering stainless thread and the $4.95 keg tool thread. Wrapped it in flexible plastic insulation and aluminum flashing from LOWES. I then added an amazing false bottom from Jaybird and built my $45 version of the ultimate a large arm. Works great with my RIMS system. Did a test run and in 1 hour it dropped from 170 deg to 158. I'd say the insulation works well.

 

[matc]

I did something very similar to yours except I insulated the bottom and lid. I lose 1 F an hour !

 

[rappell]

Forgot to mention, I put 2" ridged foam on the bottom.


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[SleepyCreekBrews]

Nice job on the soldering . What's "the ultimate a large arm. " ?

....or is that a ultimate sparge arm?

 

[rappell]

You are correct. Damn auto correct!


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[Man-O-Leisure]

What is that copper with pipe on the top going down into it?

 

[rappell]

Yep. 1/2" copper pipe.


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[Hamaki]

Lost 12*F in an hour? I don't think my poorly insulated keggle (one ill-fitting 3/8" layer of closed cell foam) loses quite that much. I was thinking of changing to 3 or 4 layers of reflectix and making a similarly insulated lid. What insulation did you use?

 

[rappell]

I used 4 layers of the flexible insulation. Not sure the brand. Looks like bubble wrap with aluminum foil on each side and 2" ridgid foam on the bottom. Then wrapped it with aluminum flashing. Did not insulate the lid. Holds heat as good as my 10 gal igloo. As I us a RIMS system heat loss is not as critical as when doing single infusion/batch spathe.


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[Jaybird]

Nice job Rappell! Now brew up some of that award winning beer you served at NCHF brother and bring a 22 or 5 to Redding!

Cheers
Jay

 

[Man-O-Leisure]

Yep. 1/2" copper pipe.


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Sorry, my question was, what is it? is it the pipe to transfer the water into the MT from the HLT?

 

[rappell]

It's a sparge arm. Returns wort to the mash tun and recirculates it through the grain bed.


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[mkirkland]

Nice, do you have some instructions and parts list for the sparge arm? I would like to build that exact same thing

 

[rappell]

I'll try to take some pics and post on it tonight


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[mkirkland]

Any pics that you have available?

 

[HDIr0n]

I would like some pictures as well.

 

[rappell]

Sorry for the delay. Got tied up and am now out of state on vacation. I'll post some pics next weekend when I return.


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[HDIr0n]

Looking forward to them.