Date: Special Issue: 25 Great Homebrew Projects
Build a Heated Keg Cleaner: Projects
Digital and Plus Members OnlyKeep your kegs and carboys clean with this bucket-based spray cleaner.
Build A Tap Handle: Projects
FREEBuild your own tap handles and show off your labels.
Countertop All-Grain Brewing System
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA homemade electric, temperature-controlled brewery – and it all fits on a countertop. A 3-gallon (11-L), 2-vessel solution for small-scale brewing.
Pumped Up Toolbox: Projects
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIn which we describe the much-awaited union of a brewing pump and a toolbox — a portable pump project of prodigious proportions.
Build a Keggle: Projects
FREEGive an old Sanke keg a new lease on life as a kettle.
Build a Hop Drying Oast
Digital and Plus Members OnlySure, you could dry your homegrown hops on an old screen, but wouldn’t you rather build your own oast?
Build a French Press Hopback
FREEAdd a hoppy aroma to your brews with a homemade hopback.
Build Your Own Stir Plate
FREEA stir plate will keep your yeast in suspension while you are raising them in your yeast starter . . . and we’ve got instructions on how to make two different stir plates, one from old computer parts you may have lying around.
From Brew Pot to Brew Kettle: Projects
FREEUse a step drill to convert your plain brew pot into a brew kettle with a built in spigot and thermometer. We’ll take you step-by-step through this driller thriller.
Build Your Own Water Filter: Projects
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhy spend a dollar a gallon for bottled water?
Build Your Own Spunding Valve to Carbonate in the Keg
FREEWith this homemade spunding valve you can naturally carbonate your homebrew by capturing the carbon dioxide produced late in fermenation just like many pros do on the commercial side.
Build a Flow-Through Thermometer: Projects
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWant to know the temperature of the water exiting your counterflow chiller? Get in line — an in-line thermometer that is.