Adam wrote:If you can't find anything used, you can always buy the Igloo coolers from Walmart and the rest of the stuff to make your mash tun at homebrew shops or hardware stores. I'm going to be batch sparging so it will be cheaper for equipment.
Yeah, that's what I did. Cooler, my 5-gallon small kettle and my 8 gallon aluminum kettle that came with my turkey fryer. I dunno how thrift stores look in the Bay Area (I have this vision of endless rows of overpriced "vintage goods" stores run by hipsters, for some reason) but that's pretty much how I built mine, except you'll probably want a newer cooler, to avoid BPA as much as possible.
