Barley Belly wrote:...upgraded from 3V AG to 40ltr BIAB Single Vessel...

Nice, is the masher homemade or purchased?

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I likey

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Top stuff Barley Belly, I like all your shiny

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Thats the Dogs Bollox's

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Masher versus Paddle

Barley Belly has some more great pics of his rig in this thread. When I first started reading that thread and read the words, "I also lashed out on a staino mash paddle..." I thought, "Oh no! " because I assumed he had bought something along the lines of what you'll see if you google image, 'mash paddle.'

I then saw his pic and went, "Wow, that is excellent! "

One thing that I always found very strange when I started all-grain brewing (in the traditional method), was the mash paddles that traditional home-brewers used, such as you'll see in the pictures in the link above. All I had available on my first AG (a traditional one) was my, "paint-stirrer/large potato masher," and I was a bit worried because it was nothing like the other mash paddles I had seen. It worked beautifully - twenty times better than other paddles, maybe more, because the masher does actually work whereas many normal paddles really don't. The masher is elegant whilst the paddle, at best, is clumsy.

On other forums, I asked or even started threads on why traditional paddles would work better or be easier to use than mashers. This had the surprising effect of accelerating that topic right out of the Active Topics page . No one has ever answered that question for me. I'd love to find out the history of the traditional mash paddle as I expect its original use was for very large open mash tuns with places hard to reach. It certainly has never made any sense to me for any type of all-grain home brewing.

It's probably about time we BIABrewers started talking about our, "mashers," rather than our, "paddles."

Whatever happens, I reckon Barley Belly has the best, most elegant, masher I have seen to date .

Good on you Belly .
PP

P.S. I just had a closer look at those Google images. I can't see one showing a professional brewer using a, 'paddle.'

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So my mash masher isn't elegant hey PP
Sorry BB for the banter, if I had of found a mashed like that I would of bought it but all I could find were short plastic, and cheap steel ones.
Top piece of kit you have there.

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wizard78 wrote:So my mash masher isn't elegant hey PP

Wiz, yours used to be the best but now .

Actually, it's quite impossible to tell from pics which style, holes versus wire, would work better. For example, your pic looks as though it has less surface area than Belly's but this could well be an optical illusion. You two should send each other a paddle so you can do a side by side

Barley Belly wrote:Thanks guys
I'm giving it a run today... Oh, and did I say I am breaking my BIAB cherry with this brew as well.

I am really looking forward to your next post Belly. Hope you had a top day

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Look what I found...

http://www.hospitalitywholesale.com.au/ ... asher.html

Looks like the same one... Barley Belly you got a good price

After doing some more digging...


4424 24" POTATO MASHER, ROUND FACE 23.24 EA

A 24" Pototo Masher from Tablecraft, Item 4424

http://www.tablecraft.com/storefrontB2C ... itemdetail

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Got me one

My New Mash Weapon, Ala Barley Belly

mash weapon small.jpg

I found this at The Hospitality Depot, Auburn, It's like the Bunnings of Catering

It was about 48$, its 650mm long I think, and I had great difficulty fitting it into the photo!


Was a fun, but expensive outing... take your wife... I did!

And it was 45C in the shade!

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