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Thanks for this. The multiple tasks in parallel makes a whole heap of sense to me actually. I thought it might be less energy in gas to heat it all at once and mix brewing salt adjustments etc and campden all at once as well, rather than trying to manage multiple additions etc. How do you manage...

Hey guys, I've been looking all over and can't find anything. I'm wondering if y'all can help me out. Just to preface this, I'm using 2 coolers and a 15G boil kettle. The kettle will be doing all of the heating of water, plus functioning as the boil vessel as well. I do not own pumps and...

The max temp for that pipe is 150F in the specs. Just a heads up.

That makes WAY more sense...thanks for clarifying that.

How does it work being in an airtight jar in the primary?

Thanks. Actually, between dollar conversion (0.70 per 1.00), shipping (usually $50+), and taxes and duty (another $20 at least), it actually very feasibly could become $100 more.

Thanks for the advice. Really appreciate it. Honestly, not a matter of money really but the fact that the 10 gallon was $110 more expensive. It's okay now though, since a 15 just came on sale for $199... Also if I absolutely wanted to in the future, that would give me the flex to move to 10G...

You part of ALES at all? I'm looking at joining. Thanks for the info and reference points. I will be using these :)

Thanks. I am leaning to cutting by 25 or 50% RO and go from there. I may also try a full batch with straight muni water, the addition of a campden shouldn't hit the SO4 content that hard.

I may....

For the record I am in Canada and so with exchange, shipping and customs duty it would be significantly more expensive to purchase pretty much anything from the US. Also, the Tall Boy kettles seem to be really high quality and have a ball valve and thermo built in so I can convert to mash tun...

It's not the budget necessarily that's the problem, but the fact that the 8 gallon is only $90 and the 10 gallon is $200. They are both Tall Kettles. Was really hoping to be AG brewing by New Years... doubt the 10 gallon goes on sale by then....

Hey guys, Great deal I found on an 8 gallon kettle. Only question is whether it is worth going 8 gallon at all if my plan is go to AG very quickly? My understanding is that I couldn't even fit boil volume for a 5 gallon AG batch in it, correct?

May be a stupid question, but when would a 5 gallon batch have 10 gallons pre-boil? Do you mean total volume pre-mash and everything?

Hey all, So, I have a spare smaller chest freezer kicking around. I would like to use it as a fermenting chamber. Now, seeing as I live in frigid Canada, and it is coming up on winter, I am wondering if it will work for this purpose and be able to have stable temperatures naturally. The...

Okay. Thanks again. Given that it IS best suited to do PA or IPA, i would dilute approx 25-50% and adjust up from there. However, if I wanted to brew, say, a porter or a stout, would I still dilute by 50% and go up from there? That seems to make sense to me.

Thanks all for the replies. All of this being said, if my math is correct and my brain is functioning, in theory if I cut 50% with RO or Distilled, I could pretty much make anything I wanted. That's well and good, but what would be best suited given the existing water quality?

Thanks very much for the info all! Sincerely appreciate the quick responses and help.

Thanks brewkinger. Appreciate the insight. Especially on the ratio. I'll do some more research on that side of things. I was hoping to use just municipal water but if I can't then I can't :)