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  • Members: 1395
  • Category: Homebrewing
  • Founded: Oct 21, 2005
  • Language: English
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STRUT YOUR STUFF! ... Share photos of your beer-gear, and help other craftbrewers with your ingenious designs and technical knowledge about equipment.

This group specializes in all types of small-scale beer brewing equipment used or adaptable by homebrewers or small breweries in brew-pubs, BOPs, or very small micro-breweries, and includes tiered-systems, RIMS/HERMS, malt mills, conical fermenters, chillers, kegging systems, etc.

Our purpose is to gather a vast body of knowledge and expertise about design, construction, and maintenance of EQUIPMENT practical for use by a home-brewer or small commercial brewing venture. There are many OTHER forums where beer styles, recipes, methods, ingredients, and other non-equipment issues are constantly discussed, so PLEASE limit, as much as possible, all posts on this group to EQUIPMENT ONLY! Occasional brief remarks about non-equipment issues are okay so long as they are along the lines of requesting private emails, or posting a link to brewing discussions in other groups or forums. Thanks for cooperating!

This is a moderated group, and spam will not be tolerated; commercial suppliers of EQUIPMENT can place a link on the links page. Links to members' personal webpages about BREWING and their EQUIPMENT will also be available. A 'FAQ' page will eventually address mundane equipment questions such as "What equipment do I need to get started?", etc., so that members won't be plagued with simple repetitive posts from beginners. We want to make all sorts of technical information available as a valuable resource for the brewing community; with everyone's cooperation, we can make this an interesting and useful group. Please help spread the word.

Please visit my other SPECIALIZED brewing groups:
EXCLUSIVELY about Growing Hops/Beer-Herbs/Barley w/3,100+ members: www.tinyurl.com/3au2uv
EXCLUSIVELY about Brewing Supplies: www.tinyurl.com/2wnang
'Homebrewers' International Grid-Computing Team: www.tinyurl.com/l489ln

Cheers.

Bill Velek

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Re: Mash Tun - Is an Aluminium False Bottom OK?
Also, it is detrimental to the oxide coating to use something like caustic soda to clean it. Some mild detergent and light scrubbing with a non abrasive
Posted - Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:09 am
Dave Witt
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Re: Mash Tun - Is an Aluminium False Bottom OK?
Aluminum is more likely to pit is you cook acidic foods in them. I don't think wort would harm it but SS would be suitable for using as both cookware and brew
Posted - Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:45 pm
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Re: Mash Tun - Is an Aluminium False Bottom OK?
Bill, that's a 25 year old misconception. The researchers who found a link between high and regular doses of Al based antacids never threw away their own Al
Posted - Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:42 pm
Steve H
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Re: Mash Tun - Is an Aluminium False Bottom OK?
True that. I was only thinking in terms of chemical suitability. Structurally, SS may indeed be a better choice.At the same thickness as SS aluminum will
Posted - Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:24 pm
Stott Noble
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Re: Mash Tun - Is an Aluminium False Bottom OK?
For my money I would go with SS. It is much more robust and will resist getting all beat up. But that is my opinion. Happy brewing. ... -- Ric Cunningham
Posted - Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:18 pm
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2009 144 181 222 134 202 99 98 75 23 68 39
2008 129 114 99 243 102 62 42 124 23 88 11 126
2007 115 129 55 24 34 55 72 91 81 191 229 122
2006 146 131 78 25 25 25 60 58 39 78 48 24
2005 70 163 142

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