{"id":1112,"date":"2014-06-08T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2017-08-07T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:10:24","slug":"mash-tun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Mash Tun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally completed my mash tun build, the last new tool I need for all grain brewing. \u00a0For my birthday, I got a 110qt Igloo Glider Roller cooler from Costco, \u00a0a ball valve kit, and a 12″ stainless steel water heater connector. \u00a0With this I will\u00a0be able to brew the highest ABV beers (all the way up to 18%) in 10 gallon batches. \u00a0Which is perfect since I recently got new kettles and burners (see my other post on that<\/a>) to do 10 gallon batches too.<\/p>\n

With my new gear I’ll had to do was take out the coolers drain and then put in my own drain. \u00a0Well 8 hours later I’ve finally finished. \u00a0Apparently my cooler is thicker than most coolers so I had to get some additional parts. \u00a0With my new parts, a female to female (f2f) extension and a male to male extension,, both stainless steel, I had a setup that was too long and I had a leak out of the hole. \u00a0So I then hand cut the f2f extension on both sides to shorten it up. \u00a0Still this leaked. \u00a0I tried several other configurations with additional washers and they all had leaks. \u00a0Then when I was in DC I stopped at a My Local Home Brew Store<\/a>\u00a0 and got some help from some\u00a0very friendly staff\u00a0and purchased several O-rings, some heat resistant some not. \u00a0Well when I got home I still could screw things together without having an ever so slight leak. \u00a0Note, the leak on the outside was slow, which is bad, but I was also worried that it was leaking into the center of the cooler, even worse. \u00a0So then Chase and I made another trip to another hardware store and picked up some more washers and another pipe wrench. \u00a0With that final trip to the store I finally got a mash tun that didn’t leak. \u00a0Hallelujah! Oh, and it turns out I never needed to cut through any of the f2f extension, but it works just fine short too.<\/p>\n

One final note, most coolers advertised size includes the lid and seems to not always add up correctly. \u00a0This cooler, Igloo Glide Roller Premium, is advertised as a 110qt cooler. \u00a0When you measure up to where the lid hits 13.5″ (which is needed to keep the heat in while mashing) and take out the bump in the inside this cooler ends up being about a 96qt cooler. \u00a0Still plenty big for 10G batches, but something to be mindful when selecting a cooler.<\/p>\n

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I’ve finally completed my mash tun build, the last new tool I need for all grain brewing. \u00a0For my birthday, I got a 110qt Igloo Glider Roller cooler from Costco, \u00a0a ball valve kit, and a 12″ stainless steel water heater connector. \u00a0With this I will\u00a0be able to brew the highest ABV beers (all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,154],"tags":[183,200,144,199,202,112,198,176,201,184,177,171,173],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beerprojects","category-beer-topics","tag-all-grain","tag-ball-valve","tag-build","tag-cooler","tag-costco","tag-home-brew","tag-igloo","tag-lauder-tun","tag-leak","tag-mash-lauder-tun","tag-mash-tun","tag-mlt","tag-stainless-steel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}