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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by vacant » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:22 am

Thin white RO hose stops filter moving if knocked otherwise small bits of grain may work their way through when stirring.
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Post by vacant » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:23 am

In place with folding handle uppermost making removal easier.
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Jim » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:38 am

Thanks for those pics. Excellent!

There's only one spatter guard there, right? You mentioned 2 earlier and I had an image of some sort of sandwich arrangement similar to a hop stopper.

I'm assuming it's held down just by gravity?
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by vacant » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:24 am

Yes, only one spatter guard. What Mark sold me was a leftover carcass from experiments when he upgraded. The tun has a hole at the top for a herms system but I blocked that off and never used it.

Air sometimes gets trapped under the filter when filling but it has never lifted and I prod the bubbles out with my paddle. It's a snug fit with the thick tubing and it helps to have the handle to pull the filter out at the end of the day.

edit: Just remembed, so when I had slit the thick hose I placed it around the splatter guard with a bit of overlap and forced it into place in the tun, then shortened the hose just enough to maintain a snug fit i.e. the hose is forced against the tun wall. The guard is loose inside this ring, which works OK but then the thin white hose makes it totally grain proof.
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Bigbud78 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 12:35 pm

I bought my thermopot not too long ago from Germany and did it myself, if you have a dremel and qmax it really isnt hard. Think with the false bottom it came in at around £140 for a 50L
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by j444fog » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:53 pm

Thinking on doing similar myself - whereabouts in Germany did you get the pot Big Bud?

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by RobP » Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:32 pm

Jim wrote:
Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:43 am
Just to explain my reason for wanting this: I'm planning my shed brewstand.

At the moment I get by with 2 vessels, 1) a boiler which also acts as a HLT and 2) a false bottom mash tun. However, my mash tun is an old Electrim boiler, and still has a working element in it (which I don't currently use). So I thought if I got a SS mash tun I could re-purpose the Electrim bin as my HLT.

I'm looking at a 3 tier 3 vessel system with a pump to get the wort from the boiler, through the counterflow, and into the fermenter.
Ha! I use an electrim as HLT/HERMS & boiler and a ss pot (insulated with metallic bubble-wrap as above) with false bottom as a mash tun. Waiting for the electrim to beak and give me an excuse to buy a ss replacement :D

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Bigbud78 » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:00 pm

j444fog wrote:
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Thinking on doing similar myself - whereabouts in Germany did you get the pot Big Bud?
Email for the prices ebay_de@bergland24.de You can get an idea of whats available if you search thermopot online, most the homebrew places are getting the pots from bergland

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Kev888 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:46 pm

Just as another option, my latest way was to make a sealed/varnished wooden crate for a single-walled pot, and fill the void with that squirty foam stuff (built up in layers).
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It had a disc of perforated stainless made for the false bottom (and some other idiosyncratic details, probably of no relevance to anyone else).
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by BritishBelgianTwst » Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:08 am

Lovely work Kev. How is it for cleaning?
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Kev888 » Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:14 am

Thanks. It seems fine to me: once the grains are dug out, small debris can be washed through the bottom drain. It is generous enough that there aren't usually any spills, but if there were then all the woodwork has several coats of varnish and all the joins are fully sealed too, so it can just be wiped down. Admittedly, It isn't as good as a Brewbuilder high end mash tun, but it cost a lot less.
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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by sbond10 » Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:28 pm

I've seen something similar with an oversized plastic flower pot. But your solution is alot nicer

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Paddington » Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:57 pm

Jim, did you ever get a mash tun sorted out? I'm thinking of buying or making one.

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Re: Insulated mash tuns

Post by Jim » Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:15 pm

Paddington wrote:
Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:57 pm
Jim, did you ever get a mash tun sorted out? I'm thinking of buying or making one.
Surprisingly, ( :roll: ) I haven't got round to it yet.
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