Brewhouse upgrades

Well it's the time of year for upgrading the brewhouse. The stage is set for some very big beers and big batches in 2012!

New milling platform
I purchased a 3 roller Monster Mill (MM3) with a 38 pound hopper. I mounted it to a metal cart from Home Depot. Driving it is a 1/2 inch variable speed D handle drill from Harbor Freight. The thing is working great after dialling the gap in.

26 Gallon mash tun and hot liquor tank

Presenting the 3 amigos. With the addition of a new 26 gallon mash and hlt, I plan on brewing quite a few 20 gallon batches!

New March nano brew pump

This thing puts the old 809 pump to shame. It is pretty quite too! This was mounted a small wheeled moving cart. I like being able to easily move it around rather than fixing it to one location.

New Fermentation vessel

And lastly I needed another place to ferment with all these other upgrades. I decided to try out using sankey kegs for fermentation. This keg is from GW kent. It is sold for the wine industry and they call it a topping keg. It has a 4 inch tri clover fitted to the top and a 1.5 inch tc near the bottom.

I then had synergy metalworks build me the 4 inch lid with ball lock posts and pressure release valve. There is a dip tube that ends about an inch above the bottom of the keg.