Jay's Stuff

A typical brew day at Jay's

After the crush is the mashing time in my giant mash tun

Ah, brew day

All the water that is brewed with goes through a charcoal filter

Here i am feeding the top hopper to set up my entire grain bill

Here is a shot of the electric motor that powers my mill

Home made shield for a 130,000 btu burner from a used freon tank

I built a steel box to house the pump and some of the controls

I built the grain mill cabinet on wheels so as to make it easier to move

I must say that the hand selected crush that i get from my homemade mill is great

I stir my grains with a paddle i made to flow the grain

I took a stainless steel rod and cut it into and then indexed it

I use a calculator to figure my crush rate for time setting

Inside my hopper i added a top of a water bottle to use as a funnel

Jays two tier system

Lower manifold bottom view looking up

Middle manifold for temp control and recirculation

My adjustable spray head for the mash tun

My same mill with the cabinet below to hold the 6 gal bucket

Payed close attention to compactness

Special bracing for weight distrubution

The counter flow chiller copper in copper

The food grade magnetic pump good up 250 degrees

This is a rear veiw of my two tier system showing the water lines

This is a successful boil

This is my most excellent mash tun it holds aprox 135 lbs of grain

This is the grain mill that i hand built from scratch

This view shows the recurculating capabilty of my mag pump

Top view of the sparge and boil kettle

Upside down view of the bottom hopper showing the slot that feeds the grain mill

At the end of the rollers is a pair of cogs to drive the rollers