keesh
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Updates!
This thread is to be dedicated to v3.0 of my brewing system. My intent is to bring my brewery up to 1BBL. It will take me several months to get there as my boys and I are still dislocated due to the flood that occurred last April, but thanks to the awesome BrewPastor, I've taken a MAJOR step forward with the project.
Behold my new HLT, Mashtun and Boil Kettle!
They just showed up today and are in great shape. I don't even know exactly how big the smaller two are, but they are at least 75~80 gallons each.
I saw one of those large kegs the other day when I was sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru. It was in the back of a McDonald's semi-truck with a long hose running from the keg to the inside of the restaurant. It couldn't tell what was running through the hose... my thought is hot grease? or maybe its a big cola syrup container?
I'll 2nd your concern, from what I discovered yesterday. I looked at those and thought Cool, maybe I could find a screaming deal on something like that for a mega brew setup sometime down the road (it's not like they would go bad sitting around till I got around to it). You mentioned Sharpsville, so I Googled them, called them up, and talked to a person at their company about seeing if they ever have any factory 2nds. He wasn't sure which style I was talking about, so I emailed him a link to this thread.Sharpsville tanks! We get those full of solvents at work. Be careful with where you got them from.
Not to sound foolish here, but regardless of what was in it, ( say , solvents), is the concern that it could not be cleaned good enough?
I work with metals for a living, and have not heard of not being able to remove such chemicals from metals.
Don't know of any that might be porous, 'cept for possibly some cast metals.
The effects of acids, maybe, and mercury, DEFINITELY , but paints and solvents.
I would probably be more concerned of the alloy, it's chromium content, and the "leachability" of it, depending on how it was used.
Throwing this out for discussion, that's all.
Hell, we've talked about Bull semen tanks as fermenters......
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