L-Town Brewing is Going Big

Above you'll see a picture of the lovely all-grain brewing rig that Gus purchased from a local, retired judge who has decided to quit homebrewing.  The rig came with a converted keggle that will serve as our hot liquor tank, another converted keggle that will be our brew kettle, a igloo cooler that has been converted to a mash-tun and extra 15.5 gallon keg that we will either convert to a mash-tun or use as trade-bait.  The stand has a pump included to move the liquid and a set of high-pressure and low-pressure propane burners with the tank.

The judge also threw in three cornelius kegs, four more cornies that were converted into fermenting tanks and three more carboys.  Gus and I have enough fermenters between the two of us to have approximately eighty (80!) gallons fermenting at once.  I don't see us ever having that much beer going at once so we may try to convert the fermenting cornies back to their usable state or we could always use them for trade.  Gus also scored a huge bottle-drying tree, a ton of flip-top bottles and four huge hop-drying racks for when we start growing hops.  We also scored a few pounds of hops that we'll be brewing up soon in a special IPA.  We're going to share some of these IPAs with the judge and actually name them in his honor.  The Judge GYO IPA should be a fun beer to experiment with.

As for our first batch we're planning on the new rig?  We're finally going to brew Abby's Hefeweizen for the first time so we can tweak the recipe and get it fine-tuned for Abby.  I can't wait to break it in!