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Home » Club Gear » Club Breweries » Drew Beechum's System
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    Well, here it is, the classic stovetop all-grain setup. Got a small kitchen and an apartment? All Grain is easily in your reach. The pots are used as an end tables when not being brewed with.
    The HLT is a 50L Italian pot with a couple of handles tacked onto the kettle.
    The mash tun is a 13 gallon pot with a manifold bottom.
    The copper ring manifold, courtesy of Jeff Mellem, formerly of Brewer's Resource.
    To run off the wort, a bucket or keg is used to hold the boil pot at the right height.
    The drop off right into the kettle.
    To vorlauf the mash bed, I run straight into a couple of containers in the boiler. Simply switch the hose around while you return the wort to the top.
    Here the vorlauf is complete and it's time to gather the brew for boiling. Pretty no?
    It takes a while to get 7 gallons of wort to boil on my kitchen stove, but it finally gets going.
    Running some Sani-clean through the chiller and collecting it below for later use. The chiller is a Heart's Homebrew Super Chiller. It works well even with the warmer water during the Los Angeles summer.
    See? It works well as evidenced by the protein clumping together.

Want to make your own beer at home? Get started on the right foot. Check out the Falcon's sponsoring shop, The Home Beer, Wine, Cheesemaking Shop. John Daume, proprietor, has been serving the home brewing and winemaking needs of Angelenos since 1972, over 30 years! (Falcon Members receive a 10% discount on supplies)
Looking for older Falcons' information?, The Westval Maltose Falcons Webpage (Locally cached) (The Original Falcon's Roost, prior to 1999)
Looking for a home wine making club in the Los Angeles area? Check out our sister club, The Cellarmasters, over 30 and still stomping grapes.