adejesus
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Hello everyone I am in the process getting together all my supplies to start home brewing. I was planning to start in a week or so using a Mr. Beer kit, but after going to my local Home Brew shop and talking to the one of the people there for almost and hour I realized getting a true 5 gallon beer kit to do it is the smarter way of doing. This will take me some time to accumulate all my supplies kit, stock pot, 2 cases of bottles, beer kit. I feel piece-milling my supplies allow me time to do further research on brewing. I do have one question what is a good size stock pot to start with I keep seeing a lot of 20 qt and 30 qt but not sure what to get. Yesterday I say a Cooks Corner 20 qt stock pot for $12.99 it was stainless steel but not if the quailty or size would be ok for brewing 5 gallons of beer. The way I take it is that you use 20 qt if you do your basic wort in the stock pot and add the rest of the water to bring it to 5 gallons in the fermenting bucket and if you use a 30 qt if you cook your whole 5 gallons off on the stove. Is this correct? Any suggestions on a pot or if I would be ok to buy the $12.99 stock pot I saw yesterday that would be great.