Stainless steel Vs. Aluminium Kettle for just heating up water

Hello Everyone,

I'm new all grain brewing, I have brewed about 5 extract batch, so I'm still new to brewing. I'm buying somethings that I need for all grain brewing. I just bought a 20 gallon stainless kettle and I don't have another stainless kettle to heat up water in for the sparge. I do have 15 gallon aluminium kettle and I would like know if it is ok to just use the aluminium kettle to heat water for the sparge.

Not only is it OK to heat sparge water in aluminum, you can also boil wort in it!

djfriesen said:

Not only is it OK to heat sparge water in aluminum, you can also boil wort in it!

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Yup, just like the man says. Nuttin' wrong w/ al lou min e um at the brits say.

djfriesen said:

Not only is it OK to heat sparge water in aluminum, you can also boil wort in it!

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I'm not an aluminum type of guy, i perfer SS, but DJ is right, you can set the whole rig up with aluminun and still come out with high quatily beer.

Thanks everyone for your help time to brew

You really don't need two kettles to brew all-grain. I used a single, 8-gallon stainless kettle for three years. You can use it to heat your strike, then sparge water, and when it comes times to sparge just collect the runnings into a bottling bucket. After you've collected your pre-boil volume, just transfer the wort back to the kettle. Voila.

By the way, I now have an aluminum kettle for strike, sparge water, so you're well ahead of me.

just preboil a load of water oxidize the aluminum.

Aluminum is just fine for heating up sparge water or boiling wort! Don't stress