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Interesting point. I also have a second 10 gal Rubbermaid HLT that I don't use much. With a pump, I could get away with a single burner and just pump the hot water from the kettle up to the cooler HLT. Hmmmmmm........

I guess my thought was if I'm going to go with pumps, might was well just get a horizontal table. But I'm trying to learn as much as possible - watching the Brew Haus video on the Top Tier now.

I'm looking at getting a beer sculpture and (while I'm early in the research process) it seems like the Blichmann Top Tier makes a lot of sense. Ideally, I'd get a burner up top, a shelf in the middle, and a burner on the bottom. Then the HLT goes on top, the MLT (I have a 10 gal orange...

That's an interesting point. I have gotten used to using my turkey fryer pot inside on my gas stove during the winter instead of outside on the propane burner. There is maybe 2 inches of space between the top of the pot and the botoom of the microwave that hangs over the range. With the...

I'm definitely leaning towards the 15 gallon kettle now. If head space with 12 gallons of pre-boil wort becomes an issue, I can just cut my batch size back a little.

I'm currently using my turkey fryer setup as my brew kettle. I'm looking to buy something nice with a thermometer and ball valve, so I don't need to pour wort through a funnel and filter into my carboy. Right now I do 5 gallon batches. I considered a 10 gallon kettle. But then I figured I...

Just let it sit for awhile and the problem will go away. I am drinking some cider right now that, a few weeks ago, you couldn't even bring the glass to within a foot of your face because the rotten egg smell was so strong. Put it back into the basement for a couple of weeks, and now it smells...

Dump out trub. Fill about 1/3 w/ hot water, shake, drain. Put in 2 scoops Oxy Clean. Fill with hot water all the way to the top. Let sit for 2-3 days. Then drain, fill with clean water, shake, drain. Done. I never put a brush or washrag or anything else in now. Oxyclean + water + time...

Yeah, I was reading Palmer's How To Brew as I was doing it. He says 2 qt/lb, but to boil more water than you need just in case. Which I did, then I forgot that there was more than I needed in the kettle and didn't remember until I had just dumped it all in. Doh. Will definitely be using less...

After a few extract based brews, I decided to step up to All Grain. My wife got me all the goodies for Christmas. So today I set about doing an all grain English Pale Ale: 10lb Maris Otter Pale Malt 1/2 lb Crystal 60 Malt 1/2 lb Carapils Malt 3 Oz Kent Goldings Hops Wyeast 1335...

I brewed a sweet stout on Wednesday afternoon and pitched Danstar Nottingham yeast (didn't make a starter). Temp in the basement was 63 degrees. After 56 hours, NOTHING, no krausen developing, no blurping from the airlock. I got nervous and so re-pitched, this time with a Wyeast 1335 smack...

Good info. I guess what I'm getting at is I really hate to buy something twice because I bought the lower end thing and then wanted to upgrade. If the SS pots are better than the coolers, I'd rather just get them from the start. If not then that's a different story.

Central NJ. Right off Exit 7 on the Tpk, over towards Ft Dix.

BTW, sorry for all the questions, but I've done a couple of extract brews and am really wanting to move into all grain.

Wow, Amazon has them on sale today for half off - $49. Is it harder to make a false bottom or manifold for a rectangular cooler?

Sure, how do I find out about these brew days? I was looking at keggles on eBay and they all seemed to be going for $200-$250, which is about the same as a stainless brew pot with plumbing.

What I was thinking of was getting two stainless brew kettles and using one as a hot liquor tank and one as a mash tun. The burner would go under the HLT. Both would have temp gauges and ball valves. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

No, I meant putting the HLT on a burner, not the MT. Heat the water in the HLT to the exact temp you want and then lauter/sparge from there.

Right off exit 7.

Thoughts on this? I guess the key advantages of using a stainless steel brew kettle as a mash tun and hot liquor tank are it's more durable and you can mount a thermometer in it and put the HLT on a burner to get exactly the temps you want. Cost is the downside, but given what some charge...