I am planning to get a conical and am having a hard time deciding between SSBrewtech and Spike. The Spike has the nice 2" dump valve and sounds like it would possibly work better for 5 gallon batches, where the SS sounds like you need a 5.5 gallon batch. I assume that is due to getting good cooling performance through the coil.
The SS however, has the nice and already available jacket as well as the 3" TC port in the coil cap which is great for adding hops/yeast. I also like all the goodies it comes with.
I plan to make a DIY glycol chiller for maintaining temps and cold crashing. I also intend to pressure transfer each batch to my kegs to avoid oxygen.
Any thoughts on which is the better choice! TIA
The SS however, has the nice and already available jacket as well as the 3" TC port in the coil cap which is great for adding hops/yeast. I also like all the goodies it comes with.
I plan to make a DIY glycol chiller for maintaining temps and cold crashing. I also intend to pressure transfer each batch to my kegs to avoid oxygen.
Any thoughts on which is the better choice! TIA