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After exhaustive reading, I want to try an 800 micron mesh BIAB basket and also use it as a cold break filter. Should hold grains fine. Anyone try to boil with an 800 or 600 micron filter?

Hi Klyph, Great thread even after a couple years. Looking back at the pics... When you upgraded diptube to a manifold, it looks like you also upgraded the recirc - the inflow "tube" was previously a FPT elbow, and is now a MPT elbow with a coupler attached. Was the whirlpool less than you liked...

Time! Who wants to wait? This is America!! As a follow up study I filled up this same brewpot -BC 40qt tri-clad- up to 9.5 gallons, it's maximum. And cranked up the heat again. Starting from 140 degrees; it had a rolling boil at the one hour time point. So, two burners on a regular gas stovetop...

I just did a definitive test on the times to boil 6 gallons of water on my gas stovetop. This is a plain jane gas burner stovetop in a rented apt.; estimated BTU per burner is 5k BTU. From front to back, my burners are 12" apart measuring from the outer edge of each burner. I put my 10 gallon...