What size cooler mash tun is best for keggle?

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I am planning and brewing with a keggle very soon with a final wort amount of 12 gallons. I currently have a 52 quart mash tun (13 gallon) which isn't going to cut it when adding in 25-30lbs of grain.

Should I upgrade to something like a 75quart cooler? Should that be plenty?

Thanks!
 
I don't know that your going to be able to boil that much in a keggle, since I assume to get 12 gals final you'll be starting with about 14 gals.

For my 10 gallon batches, I use a 60qt igloo. I'd think 75qts would do it for 12.
 
It depends on what you are looking to do overall, grain/water ratio, etc, but Bobby really spells it out.

Bobby_M said:
...Here's the easy way for you to decide based on your needs.


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Keep in mind that even if you think you might want to do both 5 and 10 gallon batches, odds are your really high gravity beers will be 5 gallon batches. Who needs 10 gallons of barleywine?

Just for example, a 10 gallon mash tun can do 5 gallons of 1.118 barleywine (~11% ABV) and 10 gallon batches of 1.060 IPA (~6% ABV). I personally think something in the 50-60qt range is most flexible in that regard if you don't mind a square/rectangular cooler.

If you want to figure for larger or smaller batch sizes, take the number in the "Max Gravity Units" column and divide that by your desired batch size.
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