luckybeagle
Making sales and brewing ales.
Hi friends.
I've been using a 10g Home Depot cooler for my mash tun with good success. However, I've been brewing bigger beers, and in higher volume, which usually means I need to scale them down smaller than I'd like in order to not run out of headspace in the MLT. I'd like to eventually do 10 gallon, high OG batches. I also can't do step mashes, which I'd like to start doing since I find myself brewing primarily Belgians and the occasional Hefeweizen.
I found this kettle at Grocery Outlet the other day. It's cheap and aluminum--my BK is a 15 gallon Concord Stainless that I like very much--but the price for 13 gallons is pretty dang good and I'm sure I could retrofit it with weldless ball valves and a CPVC lautering manifold or custom false bottom and run the system on a HERMS. This kettle will not be direct-fired, though the sticker says it's great for steaming vegetables so I'd assume it could be?
For my purposes and budget-consciousness, is there any reason I should NOT buy one of these for a MLT (and potentially an HLT replacement, too)?
I've been using a 10g Home Depot cooler for my mash tun with good success. However, I've been brewing bigger beers, and in higher volume, which usually means I need to scale them down smaller than I'd like in order to not run out of headspace in the MLT. I'd like to eventually do 10 gallon, high OG batches. I also can't do step mashes, which I'd like to start doing since I find myself brewing primarily Belgians and the occasional Hefeweizen.
I found this kettle at Grocery Outlet the other day. It's cheap and aluminum--my BK is a 15 gallon Concord Stainless that I like very much--but the price for 13 gallons is pretty dang good and I'm sure I could retrofit it with weldless ball valves and a CPVC lautering manifold or custom false bottom and run the system on a HERMS. This kettle will not be direct-fired, though the sticker says it's great for steaming vegetables so I'd assume it could be?
For my purposes and budget-consciousness, is there any reason I should NOT buy one of these for a MLT (and potentially an HLT replacement, too)?