{"id":356,"date":"2007-09-20T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T03:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=356"},"modified":"2007-09-20T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T03:54:55","slug":"mash-tun-shopping-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Mash Tun shopping list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to the store.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stainless Steel braided line: $9.49<\/li>\n<li>1\/2&#8243; brass close nipple: $2.58<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; 1\/2&#8243; washers: $0.74<\/li>\n<li>1\/2&#8243; to 3\/8&#8243; compression fitting: $2.39<\/li>\n<li>10 gallon HDPE drinking cooler: $39.97<\/li>\n<li>1\/2&#8243; brass valve: $5.77<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, for $60, I have an assembled 10 gallon insulated mash tun. I&#8217;m still uncertain if the braided stainless steel is the way to go, but I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll work well enough compared to a false bottom or scored manifold.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up using a compression fitting to connect to one end of the braided line, which meant I didn&#8217;t have to sweat any copper joints. Plus, copper is so expensive right now that even small sections of coiled copper have security tags attached.<\/p>\n<p>Next: assembly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to the store. Stainless Steel braided line: $9.49 1\/2&#8243; brass close nipple: $2.58 2 &#8211; 1\/2&#8243; washers: $0.74 1\/2&#8243; to 3\/8&#8243; compression fitting: $2.39 10 gallon HDPE drinking cooler: $39.97 1\/2&#8243; brass valve: $5.77 So, for $60, I have an assembled 10 gallon insulated mash tun. I&#8217;m still uncertain if the braided stainless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mash Tun shopping list<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}