I picked one of these up at the hardware store yesterday. I clipped off several of the arms, leaving the bottom three intact and just two opposite top arms, and then sanitized it. It easily slips right down into the glass carboy. Instead of mixing all my mash ingredients in a pot and then transferring, I dumped everything into the carboy, mixed it up / aerated it with this drill bit, balanced things out and added yeast, and mixed again. Easiest batch of mash I've ever made haha. The resulting Birdwatcher's TPW is bubbling away right now
Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill bit
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Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill bit
Last edited by gimp1973 on Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I like this a lot. My metal device is dangerously sharp and digs into the sides/bottom of my mash tun. A much safer stir tool. Thanks.
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This is my mash mixer.
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Re: Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill b
This would work great when lautering a single malt mash directly into a carboy. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill b
Euphoria, that is a thing of beauty. I aspire to have a mixer (along with the rest of your setup) as nice as your when I grow up.Euphoria wrote:This is my mash mixer.
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Re: Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill b
Be careful..That steel stem get caught sideways with a bit of elbow grease will pop that carboy in half..
Better not ever hit the neck atall..Steel vs glass.
Better not ever hit the neck atall..Steel vs glass.
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Re: Mixing / aerating mash right in carboy with stir drill b
I have ineeded touched the neck once... it was just a graze but the sound is impossible to miss haha! I corrected my position though before any damage was done