March Pump Alternative

[WJShaw]

Hello!

I've been searching the internet looking at different ideas for my AG setup and stumble across this pump.

http://greatbreweh.com/Beer_Pump.html

Have a look and please post you opinions.

Cheers!

[fakr]

Wow, 12L per minute is pretty impressive for such a small pump...all food grade, heat resistant, and a live expectancy of 30000 hours!  Very cool and cheap.  you could buy two for less than the price of 1 march pump.

I might pick a couple up next month.

great find!

[Kyle]

It does look promising. And with a name like GreatBrewEh, I expect they are Canadian-based. It looks like they are just starting out, but I'm going to give them a call and see where they are coming from pricing-wise on other things. I really like Hopdawgs, but a little healthy competition is always good. Good find.

On that specific pump though, I searched and found no references to it or the store on homebrewtalk.com which is usually a good way to get reviews of brewing products or stores. If I were you, I might wait until some reviews show up. Also, Chugger pumps are cheaper than March pumps and have very good reviews.

[Kyle]

I spoke with Scott at GreatBrewEh this morning. They are just starting out, but they will have an impressive sounding inventory of all-grain products in a month or so. The pumps are available now. They are Toronto-based, so no duty / taxes at the border as with the US stores. They will let me know via email when they are fully up and running and about pricing.

[Chris Craig]

Super interested in this...

[Jake]

I've been thinking about ordering a couple pumps for myself. Something like this would work fine with a herms system I'd assume?

This is an awsome find and looks like it could save me alot of $

[JohnQ]

Half of what I paid for my march pumps, they look pretty small, but the it seems they could do the job. At that price it's hard to argue.
The 12 Volt Adapter makes me a little squeemish on the power front, I like having good old 110 blasting away...but like I said, at that price, great find.
JQ

[fakr]

just put an order in for 1 of these pumps.  I'll post a review once I get it and put it through it's paces...

[Richard]

Good man; I'm interested in the results - especially versus one of the Chuggers; March seems too damn expensive to me.

I want a pump to run my chiller in the garage a'la Fakr's idea a long time ago - massive drum'o'water.

[fakr]

good man!

Well, if the pump comes in before the next meeting, I'll bring it along to demo.

[Jake]

Nice! If this works well I plan to order 2 of em ... although not sure if I can wait that long lol

[Jake]

When using the pump, do you plan on hooking up a ball valve to tghe outlet to control flow? If so, do you screw it right on to the outlet?

[fakr]

I'm going to put a cam lock on either end of it and restrict the flow with the ball valves on my kettles.

[JohnQ]

I'm going to put a cam lock on either end of it and restrict the flow with the ball valves on my kettles.

The problem that occurs with that system is if you use the food safe silicone, then you are restricting the flow after the hose and it will blow up like a balloon.

JQ

[Jake]

I tought you were supposed to go on the outlet bc you're not supposed to run dry? Not positive about that, but I thought I once heard that