Topic: Build It Yourself
Build a Hop Spider
Keep hop debris from clogging your kettle with this project — build your own “hop spider.”
Build a Draft Tower
Build your own draft tower from PVC piping for a fraction of the price of a new one. This project is quick and easy, yet still looks great and works perfectly.
Build A Hardwood Beer Box: Projects
Build a hardwood homebrew box with a nautical theme.
Simple Tap Cleaner: Projects
Build your own cheap, but effective, tap cleaner.
Build a Heated Keg Cleaner: Projects
Keep your kegs and carboys clean with this bucket-based spray cleaner.
Build A Tap Handle: Projects
Build your own tap handles and show off your labels.
Gas on Tap: Projects
A solution for having CO2 on demand where you need it in your brewery.
Countertop All-Grain Brewing System
A homemade electric, temperature-controlled brewery – and it all fits on a countertop. A 3-gallon (11-L), 2-vessel solution for small-scale brewing.
Carboy Protector and Dolly: Projects
Cart your carboy around without fear of breaking it with our pair of projects. Build a carboy protector and a carboy dolly.
Pumped Up Toolbox: Projects
In which we describe the much-awaited union of a brewing pump and a toolbox — a portable pump project of prodigious proportions.
Ferment in a Cornelius Keg
For those of you that keg your homebrew, chances are you’ve got at least one Cornelius keg sitting empty at any given time. Why not put them to good use as primary and/or secondary fermenters? And for those that don’t keg but are considering it in the future, picking up a keg or two for fermenting is a great way to start building up the equipment you’ll need for a kegerator. Used Cornelius kegs cost about $30 to $40, and with about $10 more in fittings and tubing you can have a 5-gallon (19-L) stainless steel fermenting vessel. The advantages of using a keg are that it’s light-tight, has built-in handles for easy transport and if you have a kegerator you can use your CO2 system to rack the beer in a completely closed environment with no siphoning.
Rolling Kegerator
The next time you go to a party, roll out the barrel . . . or at least the Corny kegs. Build this rolling kegerator with a small, on-board CO2 system.