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Looks like a decent deal to me. A full all-grain system with everything you need, three kettles, vacum pump, wort chiller, etc... for $500 and free delivery.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/9115// ... TOCT2009NL
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I like the sealed-tanks/vacuum-pump idea.  It lets you move the hot liquids around with a much cheaper pump.

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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Matt F <brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org (brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org)> wrote:
Looks like a decent deal to me. A full all-grain system with everything you need, three kettles, vacum pump, wort chiller, etc... for $500 and free delivery.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/9115//Vacu-Brew_All-Grain_Brewing_System?CODE=MBTOCT2009NL



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No concern about matching the flow rate either.
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Yeah, but I'd think you'd need to be very careful to avoid a stuck sparge. Not sure how you'd vorlauf, either (manually I suppose). Still, very clever.
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Whats the deal with this note:

(Please Note: we recommend using a glass carboy or a stainless fermenter ONLY with the VacuBrew. Do not use a plastic bucket, plastic carboy, or anything else that cannot handle heat. These plastic fermenters have been know to shrivel and shrink if the wort transfers over at too hot a temperature, spewing hot wort all over the place.)

Shouldn't the wort be down to at least 65 - 80 degrees if you are brewing with an ale yeast. Or is this a legal CYA?
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Did they actually use the wors spewing

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Post by Matt F »

I would think it would be cool. Not sure how the chiller vacum thing works. I imagine they have a video or manual somewhere to read more on it.
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Not sure I understand that either. If it goes through a chiller, why would you have hot wort going into your fermenter? And if you do have hot wort going in, I don't think glass would be ideal either.
If I really cared, I suppose I could go to morebeer's forum.
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