With the Melbourne Cup on tomorrow, it's basically a long weekend here. So, bored out of my brains with not much to do (except some tasks that were far too much like chores for my liking), I wandered down to my local Bunnings.
Perusing their plumbing section, I noticed a few bits and pieces that I figured would be good for constructing a mash tun. To cut a long story short, thanks to some really friendly service, I walked out with all the bits and pieces for a mash tun, including the esky, all for under 80 bucks. I had the thing built in less than an hour and on initial testing (plain water only) it works pretty well.
I do not have a single "handy" bone in my body, but was still able to put everything together pretty easily. So for anyone out there hesitating to start mashing grain (like I have been), rest assured that at the very least, the tun is pretty easy to build.
Now I'm at a bit of a loose end, because I have a tun... but hadn't really planned on doing a batch for a few weeks. I've got some reading to do to bone up on mashing technique.