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Home Photo Galleries Equipment Galleries Brett Walker • Los Osos, California

The brew set up is designed for two 11-gallon (42-L) batches per brew day. They are staggered one hour apart so the cooling on the first can finish before the second one is ready. He made a counter flow heat exchanger out of 40’ (∼12 m) of ½’ copper and a garden hose.

Brett’s brew stand is made from a galvanized “L” bracket. “Most of it is from Home Depot, which has different gauges to choose from – I went with the thickest one. The whole thing is bolted together.”

Brew Stand
The stainless steel refrigeration the left is for fermenting and has a two stage thermostat hooked up to a heating pad and the fridge for precise control. The white one is for conditioning kegs before they are put on tap in a four-faucet freezer conversion.

Refrigerator
The brew set up is designed for two 11-gallon (42-L) batches per brew day. They are staggered one hour apart so the cooling on the first can finish before the second one is ready. He made a counter flow heat exchanger out of 40’ (∼12 m) of ½’ copper and a garden hose.

Brew Set Up
With this set up, on brew day Brett can mash into both mash/kettles in the morning. When the first mash is ready the grain is transferred into the lauter, recirculated and transfer started back to the kettle.

Brew Day
The barley crusher is motorized with a fire hose as a motor mount. (Brett is a firefighter by day). “I rigged the motor with fire hose because there is no motor mount that would fit. The barley crusher works really well.” Keep up with Brett’s brewing by visiting his blog at http://bwbrewing.blogspot.com/.

Barley Crusher


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