The 15 pound hopper will be enough for my small BIAB batches, partial mash, and all-grain batches. |
Having your own mill also enables you to buy your base malts in bulk to save money in the long run. You can buy a 55lb sack of malt and mill it as you go. Sometimes homebrewers in an area will arrange a group buy where the group bands together to order enough malt to buy it directly from a wholesaler. I tend to use different base malts all the time. At this point I'm not sure if I will fill my apartment with sacks of barley, but if I want to now I can.
With an immersion chiller like mine the chiller is immersed in the boiling wort, cold water is run through the tubing, and the wort is chilled. |
The wort chiller is something I've stubbornly held out on purchasing for a long time. When brewing at home cooling up to 3 gallons of boiling wort with an ice bath has worked reasonably well. It still takes 20-30 minutes. With the wort chiller the wort should cool in about half the time. While the wort is cooling it's exposed to the elements. Whenever your wort is exposed and you run the risk of your beer being infected. Also the faster you chill the wort, the clearer the finished beer will be.
Now I'm like a kid who can't wait to use his new toys. I'll use the wort chiller for my upcoming Belgian Pale Ale.
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