New steam jacketed kettle

I sourced a new kettle through an old coworker this week. He happened to have a 40 gallon steam jacketed kettle that he'd planned to use for candle making but it fell through. I was able to buy it for $400 including delivery. The kettle is a Vulcan-Hart model GS-40. It's 304 stainless steel, weighs 600lb+, and came with all of the goodies (including a brand new propane regulator conversion and ignitor!) Here are some pics:

Here are some of the attachments as well as the stirring apparatus. I am planning to use this as a boil kettle, and once I replace the gas plumbing and test fire it, I am faced with the challenge of designing some sort of hop filter. This should bring my capacity up to 1 BBL batches, as the mash tun also has a 40 gal volume and I can now use my old 25 gal kettle as a HLT. I'm entertaining the notion of using this kettle as a mash tun if I find another big one to boil in, since it's steam and has the stir paddle.

Awesome find. I just picked up two 30 gallon Steam Kettles off eBay a few weeks ago but still have to come up with a way to heat them...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/hey-everybody-look-my-new-boil-kettle-79882/

Is a steam jacketed kettle basically like a big double boiler?

eddie said:

Is a steam jacketed kettle basically like a big double boiler?

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Same principal but much more efficient because you don't have to heat such a large volume of water.

Pabst Blue Robot said:

I sourced a new kettle through an old coworker this week. He happened to have a 40 gallon steam jacketed kettle that he'd planned to use for candle making but it fell through. I was able to buy it for $400 including delivery. The kettle is a Vulcan-Hart model GS-40. It's 304 stainless steel, weighs 600lb+, and came with all of the goodies (including a brand new propane regulator conversion and ignitor!) Here are some pics:

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sorry never saw any pics

pssst this is over 4 years old