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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Missing Pieces

Brewing has been put on hold until we acquire or make these necessary pieces of equipment:

A spigot for our bottling bucket, which was mysteriously left out of the brewing starter kit that was supposed to contain it.
A larger, 7 or 8 gallon stainless steel brewpot, or another smaller brewpot (3 or 4 gallon), upon discovery that the 5 gallon one that I own will not be large enough for 5 gallons of all grain brew, which boils down for two or three hours over the course of the mashing and brewing.
Another carboy bung, because ours doesn't fit...
A (preferably) copper immersion wort chiller, which is a large amount of metal tubing wrapped in a large coil that can quickly bring hot wort down to fermetation temperature (usually 160 degrees down to half of that).
An immersion thermometer (dial type).
And most importantly, a lauter tun, which is basically a plastic bucket with a false bottom (think lots of tiny holes drilled into it), to seperate the wort from the grain husks so that we're not drinking pig slop.

I'll do my best to get these things by this weekend, but if you're at Western and you have access to a power drill (or cordless drill), please get ahold of me ASAP. We cannot start brewing without first making a lautering tun.

Everything else is in order. Again, if you can help, let me know soon, so that we may have a batch done by the beginning of October or so.

Thanks,
Sam

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