First 10 gallon batch!

[crypt0]

Celebrating my first ever 10 gallon batch in my new keggle.

Kept it safe with a SNPA clone. Also kegged my first full 5 gallon boil the same day, a Magic Hat #9 clone. The #9 clone turned out to be possibly one of my best home brews to date. Absolutely fantastic!

I expect I will drain most of that 10 gallons at a housewarming party coming up in June.

I was kind of stressing somewhat for a few reasons. First of all, I have a euro sanke keg (roughly 12 gallons and change), and when adding extracts there was almost 0 margin for error with the temperature control. Had one tiny little boil over but that was it.

Secondly, 10 gallons of boiling water just scared me. 5 gallons I can lift easily and is generally controllable. All went well though.

All in all a pretty good day.

 

[RegionalChaos]

Hoping to do my first 10g soon to! I also have a Euro keg, but I think with fermcap it will be no problemo. Glad you got a kick out of it, I can't wait!

 

[crypt0]

A part of me wishes I'd gone for the 15 gallon keg to have the extra space but the 12 gallon works pretty well. I basically killed the heat when adding my extracts and then was super careful. Both fermenters are happily bubbling away as we speak.

 

[gxm]

I suspect you'll want the extra space if you go to all grain.
My 8 gallon pot is a little small for 5g batches, since with all grain I end up collecting around 7.5g that reduces to 5.5g.
Once trick I use is gradually adding the last runnings as the water evaporates off.

 

[RegionalChaos]

My keg is 50 Litres, with is about 13.2 gallons. Gxm, why do you think it reduces more with all grain? Seems like the evap rate would be the same.. I did a 6.5g boil in my 7.5g pot on my last batch, and it worked out fine, with fermcap added.. I boiled off a gallon in an hour.

 

[gxm]

My keg is 50 Litres, with is about 13.2 gallons. Gxm, why do you think it reduces more with all grain? Seems like the evap rate would be the same.. I did a 6.5g boil in my 7.5g pot on my last batch, and it worked out fine, with fermcap added.. I boiled off a gallon in an hour.

Oh, I don't think AG boils reduce more.
I was assuming that someone doing a 10g extract batch in a 12g pot wasn't starting with as much volume as they would doing the same batch as AG.