This was one of my earlier brewdays. I was experimenting steam injection to do a step mash and using a paint mixer to oxygenate the wort. I was also using a light bulb in my fermentation chest freezer and a bucket. When I moved to glass carboys I switched to a fermwrap to heat the carboy. Reposted from BigFoamyHead.com.

Pics! 🙂

mashing in

mashing in

Infusion mash

Infusion mash

Steam Injection Step Mash

Steam Injection Step Mash

God Bless Freight and Harbor!  Cheap steam cleaner.

God Bless Freight and Harbor! Cheap steam cleaner.

Iodine Tincture test to check for mash conversion

Iodine Tincture test to check for mash conversion

Three tier gravity based sparge

Three tier gravity based sparge

Ooooh Wooow - laser drilled sparge arm!

Ooooh Wooow - laser drilled sparge arm!

Collecting sweet wort

Collecting sweet wort

Time to boil

Time to boil

straining out whole hops - they did their job.

straining out whole hops - they did their job.

Aeration with power tools and a paint mixer!

Aeration with power tools and a paint mixer!

In the fermenter with a blow-off tube in sanitizer

In the fermenter with a blow-off tube in sanitizer