pretzelb
Well-Known Member
So I have a question for folks: Who likes their sight glass? It seems pretty useless to me since I measure my liquid in kettle it never fully integrates with the rest of the wort. I'm considering adding a whirpool arm or just closing it off. Any suggestions?
I'm on the fence. I bought a steel ruler to measure volume and I prefer to use it since a few websites like Priceless BIAB calculator will give estimates in inches for your kettle. Plus to be accurate you need to adjust volume by temperature and that can only be done with a rule I think.
The one good thing is you can easily see if the pump is draining too fast on a 5g batch in a 20g kettle. Other than that I'm not using it for volume.
I did get some plugs to help clean the kettle after taking the probe and heating element out. You could get these caps and pretend it wasn't there. I also saw a brewery that replaced it with rubber hose.