If he is into kegging, you can get some cool tapper handles in that price range. Many homebrewers are into vintage beer paraphernalia which can readily be found on eBay. You should be able to get some personalized mugs in that price range too. A stein might work too. I would go beer related...
Read through the thread and didn't see it mentioned of you can do your boil in 2 pots? I'm looking at taking 8ish gallons down to 5. I don't have a pot big enough to do it all together so that's out of the question. Seems that boiling 1.5 gallons off of 2 pots containing 4 gallon each would...
You could kill 2 birds with 1 stone and get a turkey fryer. Mine came with a 7 gallon pot, thermometer and lid. Plus you usually get some sort of strainer with it. Not helpful for brewing, but handy for when your frying fish and what not with the fryer. These are easily found at many stores...
First off let me say Thank You for the well laid out tutorials of both the partial mash and all grain. I read the entire partial mash first and then the all grain, after that I felt confident enough to do my first brew using all grain.
I used Biermunchers Blue Moon Clone. Everything for the...