I'm putting together a 15-gallon electric boil kettle. I mainly make 5 gallon batches, but occasionally do 10+ if I'm doing split batch experiments. My current kettle has an NPT fitting up top that I pump recirculated wort into, and then it goes down a whirlpool arm to the bottom of the kettle and makes a 90-degree bend to make a clockwise flow. It works great for whirlpooling and getting the hops accumulated in the middle of the kettle before transferring to my fermentor. What I don't like is that it's an NPT fitting and not a TC fitting, and TC fittings are so easy to remove and clean. And the long tubing can't get scrubbed unless it all gets disassembled.
I was looking at changing this up on my next kettle and going for either a TC port and just a 90-degree pickup tube, or a tangential inlet port. Anyone have experience with tangential inlet port and have comments on pros/cons with those?
I was looking at changing this up on my next kettle and going for either a TC port and just a 90-degree pickup tube, or a tangential inlet port. Anyone have experience with tangential inlet port and have comments on pros/cons with those?