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: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

I prefer stainless steel kettles. They're light, durable and easy to clean. I had a modified keg at one point, which I quickly sold. Those are just too heavy and more difficult to clean compared to a kettle. Stainless is of course more expensive, but will hold it's value. If you can, just get brew kettles with the spigot already in them and save yourself the time and effort of messing around with modifying something, unless you like doing that. A good option for modification is the Zymico weldless fittings, at both Midwest and Northern Brewer.