Bottom Drain Keg Mash Tun

The more interesting use is for keg based brewing vessel bottom drains.

Bottom drain keg mash tun.

The first simple use is to turn a keg into a fermenter. Cut the bottom of the keg out and then flip it over so that the valve neck is facing down. Homebrewstuff stainless steel sanke keg keggle conversion kit with flat false bottom valve weldless bulkhead this weldless mash keg conversion kit is a great way to turn that 15 5 gallon keg you have into an efficient mash tun or as a very effective whole hop filter in your boil kettle. The reason i cut out the bottom of the keg instead of the top is to used the already domed portion of the top of the keg along with the sanke fitting to make a bottom feeding drain.

External accessories such as ball valves nipples etc are listed in other pages of our web store. Rainier distillers 133 774 views. This is accomplished with a 1 2 coupler some stainless steel pipe and a ball valve. I like to do 1 5 quarts water lb of grain.

For the mash i add heated water to the grain already in the tun mix well and then wrap the whole thing in about 12 large bath towels two on the bottom. False bottoms conversion keg 15 5 gal straight wall to mash lauter tun the items on this page list anything that goes inside the keg or attaches directly to the wall of the keg. Anthony bot 21 988. The home brew network 131 884 views.

Simply stretch some silicone tubing over the male npt portion of the triclover and you ve got an airtight blowoff tube. I think its an interesting idea. Using a false bottom and a couple tri clover type fitting i could get a keg mash tun that truly drained from the bottom without the need of a pick up tube. How to make a bottom drain mash tun duration.

Turn used keg into a boiler for moonshine still or homebrew duration.