How should I use an extra Sanke keg?

[NewBrewB]

I built Kals ElectricBrewery about 9 years ago with converted kegs for the HLT and BK and my main regret is not inverting my boil kettle. I went with a large plastic food safe drum as a mash tun but it’s WAY too big. Have an extra keg so now I’m trying to decide if I should turn it into an inverted keg mash tun with a stainless false bottom or replace my boil kettle with a bottom drain.
Any thoughts?

 

[khannon]

I haven't done any bottom drain stuff (yet), but I would think that a with a bottom drain kettle, you would get all the trub, eliminating any advantages of whirl-pooling(not for hops, but for break material).

 

[cyberbackpacker]

I haven't done any bottom drain stuff (yet), but I would think that a with a bottom drain kettle, you would get all the trub, eliminating any advantages of whirl-pooling(not for hops, but for break material).

True, but he wants to replace the Blue drum with a bottom drain for his MLT... in this case, an inverted keg is awesome, because there is no deadspace, and you can collect the entire volume of wort that you've created.

I say go for it @NewBrewB

 

[apache_brew]

Is there such a thing as too big a mash tun? I use a keggle system for 12 gallon batches and wish my mash tun was larger to support 50lb+ grain bills for doing 1.090+ beers.

It sounds like you want to, just do it and see how you like it. It's a spare keg anyways.