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After watching Jeff do a all grain brew, I'm making the jump from Extract to All Grain. I have my brew station all drawn up with pumps, burners, plumbing and wiring. I am also going from Bottles to Kegs. Fortunately for me my wife is OK with this.

You guys and ladies have any suggestions?

ArtCox wrote:After watching Jeff do a all grain brew, I'm making the jump from Extract to All Grain. I have my brew station all drawn up with pumps, burners, plumbing and wiring. I am also going from Bottles to Kegs. Fortunately for me my wife is OK with this.

You guys and ladies have any suggestions?

One step at a time, is how I did it.

10 gal mash tun w/ homemade SS pickup tube
then grain mill
then false bottom for MLT
then bigger boiling kettle w/ valve
then bigger burner for kettle
then hot liquid tank w/ valve and sight glass
then bigger burner for HLT
then pump and tubing
then quick connects for pump and tubing
then RIMS
then RANCO controller for RIMS
then small electrical panel for wiring
then bigger Mash Tun w/ false bottom
then third burner for MLT
then re-plumbing of gas lines to handle 3 burners

Don't forget about the
CO2 bottles for the kegs
Regulators
leak soap for gas lines
distributor tubes for kegs
disconnects for kegs
serving taps for kegs
beer and gas lines for kegs
kegerator for keg, serving / storage
fermentor for ales
fermentor for lagers
stirplate for yeast starter

I'm sure there's a couple of other items.

Good luck and let us know if you need any help.

I have been building mine one part at a time.
The pump is the hardest thing for me to get past.
make it simple, and grow from there,

Ritchie

Well my "Brew Budget" didn't allow for the pump this time. so I'll use gravity to feed everything until I can afford one. I still haven't found a Igloo or Rubbermaid cooler that I like, without paying $75 for it.

Art,
Last summer I bought an Igloo 52 qt cooler w/ a drain spout at Target. Cost was under $20. Might check there. Good luck!!

ArtCox wrote:Well my "Brew Budget" didn't allow for the pump this time. so I'll use gravity to feed everything until I can afford one

I've been using gravity sans pump for some time with no problems, but remember:
Gravity is a Cruel Mistress!

Explain the Sans Gravity Pump theory.

If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out. Not really any need for a pump. KISS method of brewing.

JohnD wrote:If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out. Not really any need for a pump. KISS method of brewing.

Works for me.

If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out.

Yeah,but it won't reciculate unless you have a pitcher...or at lest a firt baseman.

If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out.

Yeah,but it won't recirculate unless you have a pitcher...or at least a first baseman.

I don't know for sure,but I think the theory is actualy 'Heron's Fontain'or 'Hero/s Fountain'.An ancient method of movinwater to higher elevations using air pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron's_fountain
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0310/0310039.pdf
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/0 ... ain-1.html#

Should be some videos on you tube,also.

Hope this helps.

BM1 wrote:

If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out.

Yeah,but it won't reciculate unless you have a pitcher...or at lest a firt baseman.

Don't worry about it. As the Johns posted
We all ( except Jeff) started without a pump.
Drain it slowly into a pitcher, pour it back slowly into the Tun, till it's clear then drain it slowly
into the kettle. No big deal. Don't worry about the little things.

Don wrote:

BM1 wrote:

If you have the mash tun on a table and open the valve, the wort will flow out.

Yeah,but it won't reciculate unless you have a pitcher...or at lest a firt baseman.

Don't worry about it. As the Johns posted
We all ( except Jeff) started without a pump.
Drain it slowly into a pitcher, pour it back slowly into the Tun, till it's clear then drain it slowly
into the kettle. No big deal. Don't worry about the little things.

Actually, I went a year without a pump. Now, I wouldn't be without one. Then again, I don't have peeps to help do the heavy lifting. Elizabeth has Art.

20+ years, no pump.