How do you mark gallons in your bot?

[dukesbb37]

I have a couple gallon containers that I usually use to measure out water for my boil... but I would prefer some way to look in the pot and instantly know how much is in there...

Thinking of taking a stainless steel spoon or rod or something and cutting notches in it and clipping it to the pot maybe...

 

[TyTanium]

Yup - I use a stick w/1g notches on it. Close enough for me.

 

[akervin]

I but 1g jugs of distilled water from Kroger for $0.92. I boil 2-2.5 per the instructions.

 

[Snafu]

What type of pot? For my keggle I use a wooden dow rod that I wood burned the increments onto. Its 2" round oak. For my smaller pots I have either sight glasses added and they are marked. I have one small SS pot I use for other things but I simply used a small nail punch to put "dents" at 1 gallon intervals and just estimated the 1/2 gallon marks. All kinds of ways to do it.

 

[jimbot]

Thinking of taking a stainless steel spoon or rod or something and cutting notches in it and clipping it to the pot maybe...

I just carefully measured one gallon at a time into my kettle, and marked on the outside of the kettle with a sharpie what the water level was. So I've got marks at 3, 4 , 5 and 6 gallons. Its enough to eyeball where I'm at during a boil.

My fermenter pale has gallon marks too, so after pouring out from the kettle I get a more precise reading right before pitching or bottling.

Now that I think about it, I marked up my secondary Better Bottle with the sharpie too!

--Jimbot

 

[kpr121]

I programmed my robot to display the volume instantly on its readout screen.

Other words = sightglass.

 

[ipsiad]

Notching whatever you use for stirring works well. If you want higher accuracy, get a stainless steel ruler and figure out how many inches/centimeters correspond to a few different volumes. Then from those measurements you should be able to figure out any volume using the ruler.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

I use a tape measure.

 

[shawnbou]

get a stainless steel ruler and figure out how many inches/centimeters correspond to a few different volumes. Then from those measurements you should be able to figure out any volume using the ruler.

This. But I got tired of multiplying the measurement in inches by the conversion factor every time, so I ended up marking the back of the ruler with a waterproof laundry marker to make it easier.

 

[Thunderous]

I really like the notches in my plastic paddle. Make sure you really clean them well. Once you get a couple marked, you can measure with a ruler to mark the rest. I labelled mine with roman numerals.

 

[enkamania]

I got lucky, 1 inch = 1 gallon

 

[stevea1210]

best solution is to get a sight glass:
http://www.brewhardware.com/wlsightglass/49-weldless-sight-glass-kit