Plans - Kettle

Here is a rough idea of the first stage of my brewery - the kettle. Apologies, my drawing skills didn't develop much after the age of five.

There is a copper immersion chiller up top (bought 12m of copper tube for this for $69 from Trade Me) which goes into a 60L stainless cook pot I bought from Trade Me for $111. 

Next is a weldless bi-metal thermometer to go in the kettle, from Mashmaster (Australia) for about $65 inc. p&p.

At the bottom of the kettle will be a ball valve, which I haven't priced yet because for now I will just use an auto-siphon for racking into the primary fermenter.

I have 3 fermenters (plastic) in total, meaning I can have two brews fermenting at once. I doubt I will expand any further than this as I don't have time to make any more and probably don't need to be drinking that much either.

The burner is a 3-ring unit from Kiwi Camping for $60.

I am planning on building a stand for the kettle from 25x25x1.6mm box section steel mig welded together, with some way of adjusting the burner height. Easysteel gave me a quote of $60 for this. Will probably spray it up with some BBQ paint to make it look nice.

Will post some photos as my gear arrives!