Illinois 60 gallon Groen steam kettle $375

Ricechex75 said:

I'd pay that if I could get it here. No clue what I'd use it for, but I'd buy it just to have it.

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I'm sure it could be shipped. my dad is a snap on dealer. I could bolt it to a heavy duty skid and package to your specs.

JUST_BREW_IT said:

Thats what I was thinking. It would be pretty easy to fashion a false bottom due to the shape of the bottom.

I also thought it would be fun to do a 'group brew' in this thing. Everyone brings their kettle then you all mash in this tank then everyone leaves with wort in their fermentor.

Just a lot of things you could do with this. Heck, I could sell it on ebay for 1500 bucks, right mark?????????

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Yeah I would get a false bottom made and weld some stainless threaded rod to hold it down. It would work awesome for my nano.

mux said:

Yeah I would get a false bottom made and weld some stainless threaded rod to hold it down. It would work awesome for my nano.

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no offense but I'm guessing it will sell within the next two weeks

JUST_BREW_IT said:

no offense but I'm guessing it will sell within the next two weeks

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I hope it does sell, but i would love to have it. Just cant swing it right now.

mux said:

I hope it does sell, but i would love to have it. Just cant swing it right now.

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I understand

mux said:

I hope it does sell, but i would love to have it. Just cant swing it right now.

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if you want to put a deposit down on this i well hold it for you.

I sold my whirlpool to a gentleman from Tennessee yesterday. he's coming to get it in 2 weeks

ttt

Take 200

rwells said:

Take 200

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sure, if you have another $175 worth of equipment that I need to throw my way.

Two threads selling the same item were merged.

passedpawn said:

Two threads selling the same item were merged.

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I lowered the price by half but had no way of changing the title of my thread so started a new one

JUST_BREW_IT said:

I'm hoping someone can find a use for it. Otherwise I will be making some serious modifications to it to use as a mash tun

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It would not take much to make it a mash tun. I would go that route instead of making it a BK. I recirculate hot water through the jacket on mine to maintain temps during mash. You could also fill the jacket with liquid foam to insulate it and abandon the jacket and use a RIMS tube or HERMS coil. I'm sure Jaybird could make you a false bottom. All you would need is to adapt the drain to your system. I drilled a hole in my lid and added a CamLok to inside and out for recirculation through my HERMS. And welded a 1 ½ “ triclamp to the drain. Get a 55 gallon stainless drum for a BK and you have a cheap 1.5BBL system.

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MaxOut said:

It would not take much to make it a mash tun. I would go that route instead of making it a BK. I recirculate hot water through the jacket on mine to maintain temps during mash. You could also fill the jacket with liquid foam to insulate it and abandon the jacket and use a RIMS tube or HERMS coil. I'm sure Jaybird could make you a false bottom. All you would need is to adapt the drain to your system. I drilled a hole in my lid and added a CamLok to inside and out for recirculation through my HERMS. And welded a 1 ½ “ triclamp to the drain. Get a 55 gallon stainless drum for a BK and you have a cheap 1.5BBL system.

Here's mine -

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awesome!

Could you not just use the water jacket to maintain/adjust the mash temps? Where I am at there are more than one or two outdoor boilers with a few extra circuits to pull 180+ degree water off of. I am just wondering why to bother with HERMS at all with such a kettle.

I use a simular setup for making cheese using 180 degree water to heat the milk. Figured the same setup could be used for mashing.

Perhaps this discussion should take place elsewhere though.