Homemade brew pot

my homemade brew pot made out of a very legally obtained keg, the only thing i didnt do was the tig welding of the pipe coupler, got the guy at the local snowmachine shop to do that for me. hope this helps anyone going this route.

Completed Pot










this is my first post with pics, hope they work

The pics work.

Very nice! Is your false bottom the cut out top of the keg?

WOW! That thing is awesome!

Dan said:

Very nice! Is your false bottom the cut out top of the keg?

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I'm curious about the FB, too. It's definitely not the cut out top from that particular keg - that one's still intact and sitting on the floor in the third picture...

Cheers!

day_trippr said:

I'm curious about the FB, too. It's definitely not the cut out top from that particular keg - that one's still intact and sitting on the floor in the third picture...

Cheers!

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You're correct it is in the third pic and I looked over it the first time. I actually thought he ought to put some tabs on that cutout for a lid. Then I looked again and the false bottom had the same star shape as the cut out section. I think the OP recycled the top of the keg into a false bottom. I'm probably wrong but that's what my gut tells me. I want to believe that's what he did. True homebrewer inventiveness (is that a word?). Hope he logs back on and tells us.

^^ either that or it doubles as a pot still... for water distillation of course.

Have any more pics of the weld?

thanks for the comments, the lid is the top cut out of my soon-to-be HLT when i go all grain soon. the false bottom is the top from this keg. cut them at slightly different diameters so i could use one as a lid and the other as the bottom. havent tried the false bottom yet, gonna brew a batch in it later. i used the circle-cutting jig i made for my plasma cutter at work, and kept cutting slots on concentric circles. a little grinding work later, a scrap piece of stainless and some stainless wire in my mig, and voila false bottom. quick trip to lowes, and a little soldering and its done. and yes, i was wondering about "water" distillation once i had the thing built and was staring at it

was looking through the first pics and saw they were not very clear. heres some new ones.

tig welds on the full coupler, sticks out inside just as much


a better shot of how the lid works


crappy tack welds on the false bottom, gonna weld it solid if it works

im guessing plasma on the false bottom