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Anyone using a 70 quart Maxcold cube cooler for a mash tun?
gevans73:
Curious to know if anyone is using the 70 Quart Maxcold coolers for a mash tun. I have a 10 gallon Igloo round I use for smaller beers, but want to make a 10 gallon batch of a big beer, (36lbs of grain). It would work in the 70 quart, but it has a weird 45 deg shape on the back for the wheels I guess.
I have a Blichmann Top Tier system and two of their brew kettles, but not quite ready to make the jump to a SS pot and then needing to go to a rims system. We always fly Sparge and I use a Blichmann auto Sparge system that works well.
I am new to brewing, just since October, but do have 19 batches made since then, so I think I have a pretty good handle on things.
Thanks for the input!
mtnrockhopper:
My LHBS sells them converted into mash tuns. I have one as a cooler. I don't think the lid is insulated as well as other coolers (I suspect it isn't insulated at all).
hokerer:
--- Quote from: gevans73 on February 07, 2013, 07:52:38 AM ---Curious to know if anyone is using the 70 Quart Maxcold coolers for a mash tun. I have a 10 gallon Igloo round I use for smaller beers, but want to make a 10 gallon batch of a big beer, (36lbs of grain). It would work in the 70 quart, but it has a weird 45 deg shape on the back for the wheels I guess.
We always fly Sparge and I use a Blichmann auto Sparge system that works well.
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That "weird shape" would make a manifold kinda tricky. If you'd batch sparge, then it wouldn't matter and that cooler would probably work fine.
mtnrockhopper:
--- Quote from: hokerer on February 07, 2013, 11:28:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: gevans73 on February 07, 2013, 07:52:38 AM ---Curious to know if anyone is using the 70 Quart Maxcold coolers for a mash tun. I have a 10 gallon Igloo round I use for smaller beers, but want to make a 10 gallon batch of a big beer, (36lbs of grain). It would work in the 70 quart, but it has a weird 45 deg shape on the back for the wheels I guess.
We always fly Sparge and I use a Blichmann auto Sparge system that works well.
--- End quote ---
That "weird shape" would make a manifold kinda tricky. If you'd batch sparge, then it wouldn't matter and that cooler would probably work fine.
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Yeah, the drain whole is in that 45 degree part, so I think a braid is out of the questions. You'd need a manifold with some creative elbow joints.
gevans73:
mtnrockhopper, what does your LHBS do for a manifold. I like the size, maybe I can get a piece of perforated ss and angle it thereby not having as much dead space.
Cheers - and thanks for the input.
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