In this post, I am going to discuss my 10 gallon gas fired Blichmann BrewEasy Turnkey system. You are probably wondering why and the hell I even bought it. Well, I’ve been looking to upgrade my brew system to something more automated for some time now. Nailing my mash temperatures has something I’ve always kind of struggled with. I’m always within about two degrees, but I wanted more control and I wanted to be able to do step mashes as well.
My decision to buy the BrewEasy is based primarily on how lazy I am. This also includes having to design a new system, build it, and then fix the bugs in it. So I wanted to be able to purchase something that was turnkey and would give me the control I wanted. After a lot of research, I settled on the Blichammn Breweasy. The biggest struggle I had when choosing my system was trying to decide on going electric or propane. I choose to go with propane because I like to drag my system around to brew at other locations besides my garage. This route also didn’t require me to have a 240 v GFCI circuit run out to my garage. A local electrician gave me a minor stroke when he wanted $1,600 to run the power I wanted to my garage. I decided to go with the 10 gallon system because it utilizes a 15 gallon mash tun. My previous 10 gallon mash tun was used at capacity pretty frequently, so I wanted something larger. The 15 gallon mash tun will also allow me to do very high gravity beers with 5 gallon batches. So anyway, let’s start discussing the specific components of the system.