HossTheGreat
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First of all, I've been reading this site for weeks and soaking up wizdom like a sponge. Thanks to this site I brewed and bottled my first batch stress free. I'm anxiously waiting to see how it turns out. I'm now about to start my second batch, and do have a conundrum.
My brew pot is somewhere just under 16qt. I can fit just under 4 gallons of water in it. My first brew was an extract kit from Midwest and the instructions only called for a 2 gallon boil. No problem.
My second kit is an extract kit from Morebeer.com. In their instructions, they call for a minimum of a 3 gallon boil. I seriously doubt I can accomplish this in my current pot. I would have very little headroom left in the pot...2.5 gallons I'd say would be the absolute max in the pot, still with that I'd be a little concerned with controlling boilovers.
I bought a 21qt porcelain on steel stock pot from Walmart today, but it's pretty wide and doesn't fit on my stove all that well. i don't really think it's going to suit my needs. I'm still hunting for one that will, but in the meantime...my question is even though my instructions say to do a 3 gallon boil, can I simply just do a 2 gallon boil? Would I have to make any modifications to the recipe at all to do this?
Again, thanks for all of your help!
My brew pot is somewhere just under 16qt. I can fit just under 4 gallons of water in it. My first brew was an extract kit from Midwest and the instructions only called for a 2 gallon boil. No problem.
My second kit is an extract kit from Morebeer.com. In their instructions, they call for a minimum of a 3 gallon boil. I seriously doubt I can accomplish this in my current pot. I would have very little headroom left in the pot...2.5 gallons I'd say would be the absolute max in the pot, still with that I'd be a little concerned with controlling boilovers.
I bought a 21qt porcelain on steel stock pot from Walmart today, but it's pretty wide and doesn't fit on my stove all that well. i don't really think it's going to suit my needs. I'm still hunting for one that will, but in the meantime...my question is even though my instructions say to do a 3 gallon boil, can I simply just do a 2 gallon boil? Would I have to make any modifications to the recipe at all to do this?
Again, thanks for all of your help!