Cooking pot

[finigan4710]

What is a good cooking pot to brew a 5 gallon brew. I have herd a turkey fryer is good... Any suggestions?

 

[unionrdr]

Well,it depends on whether you'll be doing full or partial boils. With partial boils,a 5 gallon stock pot will be fine doing 2.5-3 gallon boils. For full boils,you'll need at least an 8 gallon pot. The turkey frier set ups are good for full boils.

 

[finigan4710]

Very noob ? But my first beer will be a mardi gras amber and my friend is brewing a English brown ale. Would these require full or partial?

 

[mikescooling]

What is a good cooking and brewing pot? Well for cooking it should be thick and that drives the price up. I've been looking at the Mega pots from Morebeer, they seem like they would do double duty. Bigger is better in brewing, I have a 8 gallon pot and it works for 5gallon but it's too full and can boil over easy, ten gallon would be better. Or you can boil in a keg. Or if you want to go on the cheep a turkey fryer will work

 

[unionrdr]

Without any details,I'd say you could do it either way. Just use late extract additions in the partial boil to keep hop utilization up.

 

[doubletapbrewing]

Can you use stainless steel pots that have previously been used for other things? I know you can't if it is an aluminum pot but wasn't sure about ss

 

[divrguy]

Can you use stainless steel pots that have previously been used for other things? I know you can't if it is an aluminum pot but wasn't sure about ss

SS is the best if you have it. Doesn't matter what else was cooked in it either. For that fact, if I had a nice thick aluminum pot that was used for other things, I would just scrub it, re oxidize it and then use it. But, that's me.

 

[unionrdr]

If you can get it really clean & no residual smells,then yes you could. I happened to find a set of nested SS stock pots with lids & steamer trays on sale at Giant Eagle. Polished-n-purty. I brew in the 5 gallon,heat sparge water in the 4 gallon. Or extract brews in the 4G with 2.5G of water works well. My wife did hers in the 4G with great success.

 

[mikescooling]

You can use any pot that is clean including aluminum, many of us use our pots for things like shrimp boils, lobster pots. Brewers love their pots. The only down side to aluminum is you can only use certain cleaners on them. But aluminum is great!

 

[mikescooling]

Dam you guys are quick

 

[unionrdr]

I only use my 5G (20QT) SSBK for brewing beer. But the 4 gallon sees all kinds of cooking. Clean it down to shiny SS & it works fine. But that's the thing,it must be thoroughly clean before brewing beer in it. That's my pickiness anyway. I won't even leave a slight discoloration in any of them.

 

[doubletapbrewing]

Thanks guys, I figured the ss wouldn't matter.