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Old 02-02-2024, 01:51 PM   #10
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I haven't had time to brew for a couple of years. I have a 10 gallon system, a cut out half barrel and 5 gallon soda fountain kegs. Pyrex carboys for collecting wart and also for the primary and secondaries...My mashtun is a Home Depot water cooler. I use gravity and muscle instead of pumps to refill the kettle with the extracted wart. I'd like to build a hand cranked elevator for this instead of using muscle, or a pump. Cleaning it all after the session is easy without all of that plumbing, and no electricity needed!

Here are a few pics from a Dry hopped darked Amber session. Nice caramel notes with a bit of charcoal flavor from the roasted barley. It was similar to a porter, damned good! It was a windy day, so I propped up shields to keep the flame steady for the boil.
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Collecting wart through my homemade chillzilla (MOchilla)
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And the sanitized primaries are filling...

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Here is my MOchilla reversed flow chiller half made. It's refrigeration grade soft copper tubing within tubing and brass fittings (garden hose adapted for the cold sleeve). I like to brew in the Spring when the water from the city water system is COLD!
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Here is an earlier pale ale I drank while brewing the darkened amber. Inspiration
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