So I had this crazy idea one day to take my buddy's old smoker and turn it into a blast furnace View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476198.517347.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476247.016409.jpg
After cutting off the smoker box and using the smoker door to cover the hole in the floor of the smoker , I used a homemade adobe mix of clay, sand and wood ash to essentially concrete a length of gutter into the bottom of the smoker , I drilled 3 rows of 1/4 inch holes an inch an a half apart down the length of the gutter. In blast furnace terms this is referred to as a tuyere . View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477888.339711.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477905.723065.jpgI attached the open end of the gutter to an industrial fanView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433478132.325194.jpg and before I knew it I had an honest to goodness blast furnace that I dubbed Der Hochofen ( blast furnace in German )View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476820.233073.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476848.249699.jpgas you can see it worked as planned View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477175.292185.jpgwhen it settles down we even cooked some bacon on the rocks View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477208.008595.jpg. We mashed with propane on this cool stove from 1925 I salvaged out of a basement View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477453.921812.jpg, I converted it from natural gas to propane , it works really well and I can get about a foot and a half to two foot jet of flame coming off of that thing at full blast . We collected the wort in a retired Jim Beam barrel View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433480945.117130.jpg
After cutting off the smoker box and using the smoker door to cover the hole in the floor of the smoker , I used a homemade adobe mix of clay, sand and wood ash to essentially concrete a length of gutter into the bottom of the smoker , I drilled 3 rows of 1/4 inch holes an inch an a half apart down the length of the gutter. In blast furnace terms this is referred to as a tuyere . View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477888.339711.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477905.723065.jpgI attached the open end of the gutter to an industrial fanView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433478132.325194.jpg and before I knew it I had an honest to goodness blast furnace that I dubbed Der Hochofen ( blast furnace in German )View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476820.233073.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433476848.249699.jpgas you can see it worked as planned View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477175.292185.jpgwhen it settles down we even cooked some bacon on the rocks View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477208.008595.jpg. We mashed with propane on this cool stove from 1925 I salvaged out of a basement View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433477453.921812.jpg, I converted it from natural gas to propane , it works really well and I can get about a foot and a half to two foot jet of flame coming off of that thing at full blast . We collected the wort in a retired Jim Beam barrel View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1433480945.117130.jpg