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Thanks all for the input, every bit I found helpful and it answered my question perfectly. It’s my first question of many I’m sure many! I especially enjoyed how nerdy the topic became after only a few posts...that’s when you know you’ve come to the right place. ;) I’m so glad to be done...

We're in NE Portland. Bend I see, NICE! I would imagine this site pulls a hefty NW crowd?

Thanks! Living in Oregon, our water temp is pretty cold...so I think we're good in that department. Our brewing capacity is roughly 10gal and you're right, we will need to boil around 12.5 in order to get 10gal. We're brewing in a keggle.

My brewing partner and I are looking to create a copper coil wort chiller from scratch rather than shelling out the money to buy one pre-made. We’ve seen it done before and it looks pretty straight forward. It also helped that we acquired 50 feel of copper for a great deal. Now for my...