Projects
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.
The Trap Door Keezer
Tap towers can be a design challenge for home draft system builders. Enter the trap-door lid design, allowing access to the keezer without having to move the tower.
Build a Spice Infuser
Make this “suspended spice infuser” which will allow you to add spice additions to, and remove them from, your beer with ease — and without requiring you to rack the beer.
Fermentation Cabinet
Temperature control is key during fermentation. Build this cabinet to provide your fermenter the optimal environment for success.
Build a Heated Mash Tun: Projects
Keep your mash temperatures constant by building your own internally heated mash tun.
DIY Keg Beer Level Management System
It’s always a sad day when you go to pull a pint of your favorite draft beer and the faucet starts spitting foam into the glass. Always know how much beer is actually left in the keg with this awesome DIY scale with display functionality.
Stainless Steel Auto-siphon: A novel approach to priming a siphon
When a reader purchases a new kettle he decided to forgo adding any ports. He opted to engineer a stainless racking cane that is primed differently than most homebrewing canes.
Power Your Propane Burner: Run your flames on a simple switch
Creating a safe and consistent flame that you can switch on and off with a toggle switch can be achieved with some modifications to your burner. Learn how one brewer made it happen.
Build a Counterflow Wort Chiller
Chill on the cheap by building your own counterflow wort chiller for about forty bucks. With one trip to the hardware store and about an hour of build time, you can be chilling your wort quickly and efficiently with this "cool" project. Plus: A Rundown of Different Chilling Options
Nitro Kegerator
With very little time and money (if you are frugal, that is), you can serve up nitro beers at home without having to do any permanent modifications to your kegerator.
The DIY In-Line Oxygenator
Build your own in-line oxygenator to aerate your wort directly from the out side of your counterflow chiller as it flows to the fermenter.
Build a Counter-Pressure Bottle Filler: Projects
Want to bottle sediment-free beer from your keg? With an hour of your time and $30 worth of parts, you can make your own counter-pressure bottle filler.
