16 Nov
2003
16 Nov
'03
9:57 p.m.
Dave,
I like aluminum brew kettles. You can find them in just about any size
at Restaurant Supply stores through-out the country.
The only thing you need to do is to figure out how to get the hot wort
out (assuming a counter-flow wort chiller, which when you move to 10+
Gal batch sizes, I'd highly recommend). We use to use a "duck". It was
just a slotted copper "T" with hose barb on one end. Put a copper angle
on the hose barb end, makes it look like a "duck" sticking out of the
kettle. The hard part is priming it, but of couse, we had it hard
plumbed to dedicated hot water tank with water filters.
If you get one of your brew-club buddies to put in a spigot on your
kettle, you can still use your "duck" as a backup for when you
accidentally send a piece of saran wrap into the spigot, but that's
another story...
Andrew
--- Dave Cox <north-shore-brewer(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
I have been looking at brewing kettles, and I could
use some advice.
I am looking for something around 15 gallons, so that I can do all
grain
batches of at least 10 gallons. Northern Brewer has a Polarware 15
Gallon
Kettle made of 18-8 stainless that would work. Midwest has a 14
gallon
stainless kettle with .8mm sides and 1.0mm bottom which is quite a
bit
cheaper, but I would question the durability of this compared with
the
heavier kettle. I know that a lot of people have converted used kegs
for
use as brew kettles, but I have not found a good source for that
option, and
I am not sure how much modifying I want to try to do.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Dave
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