[THC] all grain first try - need advice

[Peter Frederick]

 From the OVHA in Evansville:

You will need a mash tun of some sort, I use a regular sized canner  
(the one that holds six or seven quart jars).  Any other vessel of  
similar size that can be heated will work.

You will also need a lauter tun -- there are a number of designs,  
starting with a picnic cooler with a simple pipe manifold with slots  
cut into the bottom of the pipes (PVC works fine) or as simple as my  
first one -- a plain plastic bucket with a hole drilled in the side  
just the size to make a non-leaking push through fit for my racking  
hose, with a false bottom made of a piece of nylon mesh from the  
craft store held up with some strips of copper pipe hanger.  Don't  
use galvanized -- the taste of zinc will be horrile!.  A layer of  
cheese cloth and it worked for me for years.  I eventually built a  
simple copper pipe manifold with slots in the bottom of the pipes  
with a fitting installed in the side of the bucket so I could mount a  
valve.

You can heat your sparge water in your boiler, but you will need to  
transfer it when you start running your wort into it.

Peter

On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Phillip Fell wrote:

> so, phil and i have so far only made beer with extracts, and when  
> we bottled some beer last night we sorta broke our  
> bottler...LOL...and need to order a new one soon so we can get this  
> rasp wheat bottled, anyways, we thought we would at the same time  
> order ingredients to make our next batch or two and thought this  
> would be a good time to try something all grain.  our current  
> equipment is extremely basic...we have a propane burner and an  
> approx 10 gallon pot, a 5 gal carboy and 5 gal better bottle, both  
> with burpers/stoppers, etc...and a hydrometer, etc....and many 5  
> gallon buckets.....anyways, we know we will need more equipment to  
> do all grain, any suggestions on the bare basics?
>
>   thanks
>
>   ps linda, meant to mention that the cascade is growing nicely and  
> we bought an arbor for it to grow around...*smiles*...thanks again
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