Projects
DIY Bottle Cap Designs
Want to make your bottle stand out? Add a design to the cap using this acrylic transfer method.
Make Your Own Spindle Tap Handles: Projects
Tap handles are a quick, easy project to add some class to your kegging setup.
Motorize Your Grain Mill: Projects
Save your arm and get a great crush by motorizing your malt mill the right way. Get cranking with this great project.
Hop Oast
The best way to dry freshly picked hops to preserve all of their wonderful flavor-boosting oils, acids, and compounds is with a hop oast. Here are plans to build a multi-tier oast utilizing a box fan for drying.
Build a Keg Lid Carbonator: Projects
Keg it and carbonate it quick with this handy device you can make.
Build a Peristaltic Pump
Build a peristaltic pump to pull liquids from one place and push them to another; no priming needed.
Outdoor Ventilation Fan
If you are put off by the loud noise of a ventilation fan in your basement brewery, install the fan outside the basement and brew in peace.
Build a Fermentation Temperature Control System
Don’t have space for a fermentation fridge? Control fermentation temperature with heat and cooling wraps.
Double Pipe Wort Chiller
In double pipe heat exchangers, one fluid flows inside a pipe and a second fluid flows in another pipe that surrounds the first in a concentric tube construction. It is similar to the commonly used coiled counterflow chiller, but instead of using a continuous length of a double pipe, the length of the heat exchanger is split in short, straight sections that can be cleaned with a pipe brush and mild chemicals.
Wooden Two-Tier Brew Stand
Build a two-tiered brew stand that, when placed next to a propane burner, becomes a true three-tier, gravity-fed brew stand with the hot liquor cooler on the highest tier and the mash tun on the middle tier.
Build a Mash Paddle
If you are an all-grain brewer, a mash paddle is a critical piece of brewing equipment to ensure that any “dough balls” are busted apart, that the mash temp is evenly distributed throughout the mash tun, and to generally just keep things stirred up. Here’s how to build your own.
Build a Cider Press
A small cider press can cost hundreds of dollars. It is not difficult, however, to build your own press using inexpensive materials.
