I am planning to be able to do AG sometime this spring. I have a 10gal pot to boil water/wort, burner, copper tubing/hose/clamps to make a chiller, and planning on buying a 52qt cooler for mashing.
I just realized that I also need to have something to collect first portion of the wort before I batch sparge as my boiling pot will be holding sparge water at this point
So the question is what can I use for that purpose?
Could I just use a homedepot type of a 5 gal bucket? Or should I use a plastic (semi transparent) fermenter, but I think it may not like high temperature.
What do you use? It seems to me that another pot is not needed unless I heat anything in it, am I right?
Do I need anithing else to switch to AG?
I just realized that I also need to have something to collect first portion of the wort before I batch sparge as my boiling pot will be holding sparge water at this point
So the question is what can I use for that purpose?
Could I just use a homedepot type of a 5 gal bucket? Or should I use a plastic (semi transparent) fermenter, but I think it may not like high temperature.
What do you use? It seems to me that another pot is not needed unless I heat anything in it, am I right?
Do I need anithing else to switch to AG?