Comments on: Mash Tun Design http://www.brew-dudes.com/mash-tun-design/513 Resource for home brewers created by home brewers. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://www.brew-dudes.com/mash-tun-design/513#comment-2405 Mike Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:37:53 +0000 http://www.brew-dudes.com/mash-tun-design/513#comment-2405 Adam: I am generally fairly conservative with these things too. Plumbing is not really my expertise. I am willing to try most things, I just don't necessarily have the right tools to do the best job possible. To that end, yes my pick up tubes tend to break suction to early and I leave more wort behind than I should. This in part is because I am using copper tubing with non soldered fittings, so they start to suck air and lose suction. I need to borrow someones torch and teach myself to solder the joints. I know its easy I just haven't tried it yet. As for the mash tun. I know a couple guys that use kegs as mash tuns and they have them wrapped in insulation like a water heater. They don't lose much temp, and they aren't directly fired. Regardless, of that I also forsee maybe trying a HERMS time set up eventually too if I went that far with the equipment....but more plumbing issues. Anyhow, I am still leaning towards giving it a shot, just to try something new and maybe have a novel way of latuering. Cheers Adam:
I am generally fairly conservative with these things too. Plumbing is not really my expertise. I am willing to try most things, I just don’t necessarily have the right tools to do the best job possible.

To that end, yes my pick up tubes tend to break suction to early and I leave more wort behind than I should. This in part is because I am using copper tubing with non soldered fittings, so they start to suck air and lose suction. I need to borrow someones torch and teach myself to solder the joints. I know its easy I just haven’t tried it yet.

As for the mash tun. I know a couple guys that use kegs as mash tuns and they have them wrapped in insulation like a water heater. They don’t lose much temp, and they aren’t directly fired. Regardless, of that I also forsee maybe trying a HERMS time set up eventually too if I went that far with the equipment….but more plumbing issues.

Anyhow, I am still leaning towards giving it a shot, just to try something new and maybe have a novel way of latuering.

Cheers

]]> By: Adam http://www.brew-dudes.com/mash-tun-design/513#comment-2404 Adam Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:48:19 +0000 http://www.brew-dudes.com/mash-tun-design/513#comment-2404 As I read your post I came to the same conclusion. Kind of an expensive experiement, but, I'm pretty conservative about these things. At least that's what my friends tell me. So is the flat bottom causing you to leave some of the runnings behind? Is that what you don't like? Also, even the more professional systems use pickup tubes. Not that you couldn't innovate here and introduce a new idea. Also, how would you maintain your mash temp if its not direct fired from the bottom? As I read your post I came to the same conclusion. Kind of an expensive experiement, but, I’m pretty conservative about these things. At least that’s what my friends tell me.

So is the flat bottom causing you to leave some of the runnings behind? Is that what you don’t like? Also, even the more professional systems use pickup tubes. Not that you couldn’t innovate here and introduce a new idea.

Also, how would you maintain your mash temp if its not direct fired from the bottom?

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