Bob and his Phat Tire!

Hi again!

I had a good weekend and went over to my brew friend Bob's house yesterday to assist in his brewing of a 5 gallon batch of a Phat Tire Clone that he got as a kit from an online brewing source. Bob has upgraded his system and has added a pump, 2 heat-sticks and a temp controller to keep an eye on his temps. (I guess that my ideas are rubbing off on him..LOL). Sorry Bob!!
Anyways, we had a great session and it went real smoothly too. The session lasted 6 hrs from start to finish including clean up! We started at 8 AM and I was home by 2:45. (I live about 30 minutes from him or so).

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In the meantime, here's a few pics of yesterday's brew session at Bob's place!

A side shot at Bob's updated home brewery.

Here's another angle of it. Note the new plumbing and other upgrades!

Here's a shot at my malt mill that was used to crack the grains.

Below you can see the HLT full of water being heated to the desired temperature by 2 homemade Heat Sticks make by Bob. They work very well!

Here's Bob displaying one of his his homemade Heat Sticks!

A peek under the hood of the mash tun reveils the sparging in progress.

Here's the wort coming up to a boil.

Chilling the wort. The cooler has a bunch of ice and water and the cold water is circulated

by a small aquarium pump inside the cooler, through the wort chiller then back to the cooler.

Racking the cooled wort into the fermenter.

Notice how clear the wort is!

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Cheers...

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