The beer itself was 40 litres of 4%-ish pale ale which I'm brewing especially for a party I've been invited to in September.
Because I was doing a double batch, I prepared the liquor in my 60 litre boiler pumping 25L into the HLT to mash in with, a further 11L for the mash out before sparging with 32L (split into 25 and 7 litres).
When I can afford another 12v 5A power supply (I've bought two from fleabay, one didn't work and the replacement blew up after two brews) I'll use my converted tyre inflator to drive the flojet pump, but until then, to paraphrase Wood Allen, I'm strictly a hand operator.
A few pics
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| Boiler on the left, HLT on the right, temp controller in the middle |
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| Sparge Arm in Action |
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| G56 Flojet pump with pressure spray "hand crank" |
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| Some rather brown first runnings - twigs got added later |
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| First Wort Twigs |
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