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An old brass hydrometer- life was more complicated in those days!

Mashing and Grain Brewing Equipment

Lots of great equipment for microbrewery style mashing and sparging.

From the starter home brew to the serious micro brewer

Mashing and sparging at home is easy! This equipment will make it a success.

You beer should be better than most of the small microbreweries because you take more care!

The first three items are perhaps the easiest way to mash and for most people all the equipment they ever need.

So, if you want to mash beer and just want a simple and easy pack of equipment just buy the bruheat boiler, the wort chiller and mash tun.You don't need to read any further down the page!

Bruheat Mashing and Boiling Bin

BRUHEAT BOILERS and free mashing bag for boiling and mashing. Made of temperature stable plastic. This is a cheap and effective way of heating water for mashing. The thermostat means that the liquid will hit the right temperature for the grain. You'll really need a mashing bag or a mash tun .If you're going to use the thermostat for mashing the grain can burn on the element. After mashing you can then boil the liquor, using an extension lead you can get the boiler outside, which may be helpful in reducing smells! Have a look at the hop strainer listed below as well.

Wort Chiller

It's a big copper coil that will fit in the boiler above.

It cools the boiling liquid down to fermenting temperature in about 20 mins.

It stops bacterial infections from getting in - As can happen when you leave it to cool overnight.

You could make one by wrapping copper tube around the Dyson tube- if you want a nice job then buy this one!

Brupaks Insulated Mash Tun

Brupaks insulated mash tun, mashes up to 10 kg of grain, tip the hot grain in and it holds it at temperature without the need for reheating. This stops the formation of hot spots and burning that you can get when you mash in the boiling tub.
We've been playing with this and it really makes things easy. Heat the(3 gall) water up about 10 degrees hotter than the mash temp. Pour it into this and then add the grain, that drops the temp by about 10 degrees. You can then leave it to mash.
The flange in the bottom of the mash tun means you can pour on the sparge water and run off the liquor without transfer to a bag, nice and easy!!

Again, you can make one easy enough but the nice people at brupaks have saved you trouble

Brupaks Enamelled Boiler 30 Litres

Brupaks boiler- 29 litres. Very popular enamelled steel boiler.1.8kw with fitted hop strainer.

It's a more robust version of the bruheat plastic boiler

Mashing and Sparging Bag

Mashing and sparging bag to fit above. Also suitable for sparging into your own bucket--

Spare Kettle type element for Bruheat

Spare Bruheat Tap

Fits the Bruheat plastic boiler. Can be used to make your own equipment, takes boiling liquids. Comes complete with back nut

Spare Bruheat Bucket and Lid

Just the plastic bucket for the bruheat. Drilled for element and tap

Spare Bruheat Thermostat/Control Unit

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Conical Fermenter Stainless in Various Sizes

These are Italian and made of Inox18/10 stainless. This is food grade and good quality, don't confuse it with the cheap Chinese imports!

They have a tap on the bottom and another where the conical bit ends. They come complete with the stand.

It allows you to run off the sediment after a few days without running off the whole brew. This gives a cleaner beer and reduces the chance of yeast bite.

The side tap allows the beer to be run off above the sediment so further improving quality.

50 Litre Plastic Bucket

A big white plastic bucket. Useful for 10 gallon brews

Corn Mill-For Crushing Whole Grain

Corn Mill-Will grind any grain. Hopper holds about 500 g. It says it takes a minute to grind a pound but you have to be working like a lunatic to achieve this! A nice tool at a good price though.

For buckets and fermenters look at the fermenter page!

Stainless Steel Electric Boilers From 50 to 100 litres

Stainless Steel Electric Boiler. These are the best! They have either a one or two 3kw element and come complete with lid , tap and hop strainer. Usually in stock . Requires a bit of wiring, the manufacturer suggests you use an electrician to wire up the thermostat.
We've been using one of these and the insulated mash tun and found it's much easier than messing about with bags.Hop strainer included

You'll need the 75 to make 50 litres of beer! It's a good size and heats up fast with the two elements
IN STOCK

Hop Strainers Universal

These come with the brupak and stainless boilers.

The new one is universal and fits both boilers

You can add then to the bruheat etc and they are useful if a bit homemade looking.

Bronze Drill Pump

Cheap way of setting up a three tank brewery. Allows you to have the boiler on the floor and then pump up the wort to a fermenter or a mashing header tank.. 20 litres per minute of liquid . Max working temp is 90 c .
Will take push on 20mm 0r 16mm
hose.
Easiest drive is to use an electric drill- see photo!

But you can use a seperate motor and drive belt

Click on the picture for a simple diagram of the three tier mash system

Electric Pump Mains- 2800 RPM

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Electric wort pump, bronze in the pumping parts and weighs 5.4 KG

This is a serious pump that will shift 32 litres a minute to a height of 27 metres.

Internal bore on those outlets is 16mm.

It's rated to a temperature of 90 c. This seems standard with all these pumps. It means you've got let stuff go off the boil and cool a bit before you pump it. It will lift from cellar to kitchen if you need it to.

Motor rated at 1/2 horse power so it's got plenty of muscle

Counterflow Wort Chiller

Counterflow wort chiller
8x20cm by 35mm thick

Homebrew version of a professional plate heat exchanger with 12 stainless steel plates . No pump required (gravity feed is sufficient). Cools 20 litres of hot wort to 20°C in under 10 minutes!!!
Compact and neat, wort in and out. Cold water from the tap, in and out. Simple heat exchange sytem.

Connections are standard 3/4" BSP
Supplied with screw on connections to fit push on plastic tube like the ones on the back of the washing machine, so you can choose either screw or push fit.

Hand Cranked Grain Mill

American made malt mill. Roller crush size is pre set for a coarse crush.
Self oiling bearings and easy use. Will last a lifetime for home use. Easiley motorised
You can whizz a pound of grain through in about 15 seconds, enough for a 5 gall batch of beer takes less than 5 min even if you stop for breath!

Stainless Steel Tanks -Suitable for Gas Cookers

These are big stainless tanks, ok for mashing or boiling.

They are suitable for propane cookers.

You can get by with a 50 litre tank to mash 50 litres of beer.

If you're boiling you'll need the 75 for 50 litres of beer.

Otherwise it froths up over the top and everywhere and makes a right mess.

Stainless Steel Tanks Not suitable for Gas Cookers!

These have the cheaper tap fitted and are great for mashing or fermenting. If you're never going to use propane then don't waste your money on the dearer tanks! Spend the money you save on beer!

Remember that you really need the 75 litres to make 50 litres of beer, it tends to froth over the top otherwise!

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