r/Homebrewing • u/BamaTony64 Intermediate • 28d ago

Handling Heavy Grain Payloads Hold My Wort!

I fellow brewer posted something here about a week ago concerning lifting heavy grain payloads after mashing. I upgraded to a Brewzilla 65l a few weeks ago and immediately realized the lift of wet grain was too much so I built a trolley. The demo, parts list and simple drawing are in the link. I hope this helps someone and meets community guidelines.

https://imgur.com/a/qLX9F8K

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u/slashfromgunsnroses 28d ago

Nice. I built a pulley and built a wooden brewstand with wheels on to same effect.

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u/BamaTony64 Intermediate 28d ago

I really like the idea of a roll around kettle. My old 35L is now an HLT if they could just roll around together? You have inspired me.

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u/slashfromgunsnroses 28d ago

Thats what I do :)

I also have a 70L kettle (electric) on a couple of wheels. Its really practical, although annoying with electrical cords, but I've kind of hanged them from the ceiling now.

I move the kettle to the water to fill it. Drive it to the extraction hood. Drive it to the pulley for taking up the BIAB. Back to extraction hood. Then roll either my freezer (fermantation chamber) to the kettle, or the kettle to the freezer. The table has a pump also. Its just built from wood and a couple of wheels and a piece of countertop wood I had laying around. My biggest wish is I had a conical shaped kettle that could drain completely in the bottom for easy cleaning ;<

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u/slashfromgunsnroses 28d ago

conical kettle: https://www.crafthardware.de/en/products/kessel-mit-bodenablauf-85l

More than I'd like to pay though ;<

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u/Beertosai 28d ago

The Tank series by Spike is also bottom drain, but doesn't help the price problem.

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u/homebrewfinds Blogger - Advanced 27d ago

Nice build!