New Perlick SS Beer Taps

Received in the post today 2 beautiful 525SS taps from Perlick. These babies are totally stainless steel including the shank, tail etc. By importing these from the US directly I paid less than half price and that includes postage!

Only ordered them about 10 days ago, so very happy. Already been down to the shed and installed one on the beer fridge, ready to pour the mirror pond pale ale next week

Refractometer

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s out there. I was lucky enough to get a brand new refractometer to replace the dodgy hydrometer’s I seem to break every 2 brews on average Nice little piece of kit, that I ordered from Hong Kong on ebay for only $25! A fraction of the cost of the ones you can buy from the home brew stores and exactly the same model. Delivered in less than 2 weeks. Can’t wait to try it out next brew day. Here is a link to the one I bought for those interested…

http://tinyurl.com/n2f82l

The Mashmaster Fridgemate

Have a look at my new piece of brewing porn!

This great little piece of equipment is connected to my fermenting fridge and keeps the inside within 1 deg. of where I want it.

Many thanks to Rob at http://helms-deep.cable.nu/~rwh/blog/?p=29 for help to put this together…

New Glass Carboy

Just bought a new glass fermenter on ebay (paid a bit more than I should have actually). I;ve been wanting to use one of these for ages, which most of the guys in the US use.

Going to pick it up tomorrow….

The “All-Grain” Brewery

After quite a few kit, extract and partial brews, it is now time to step up into what is known as AG brewing. That is, brewing from pure malted barley rather than the cans of goo from the supermarket or home brew store.

After months of sourcing the relevant equipment, the brewery is now complete as can be seen in the photo below.

The main components from left to right include:

1. Hot Liquor Tank – 20L SS pot
2. Mush Tun – 10 Gal. Cooler with SS braid
3. Kettle
4. 4 Ring propane burner

This set up will be used to create around 19L or wort which will then be transferred to a ‘cube’ for colling overnight before being pitched into a fermenter.