Ugh. Rust in my brew kettle...

[darkestdays]

My main brew kettle is a 5 gallon canning pot. It is made of enamel coated steel. I don't know what happened, but the bottom corner of the pot got slightly dented and some of the enamel came off of the inside of the pot. It's starting to rust where the steel is now exposed.

Is ok to brew with? I made a batch on saturday, but I scrubbed as much of the rust off as I could. Hopefully the batch will be ok.

I have a stainless steel 5 gallon pot coming in the mail, but I was hoping to use this other enameled pot to do partial mash batches in. What do you think?

Edit: Is there some kind of product that you can use to cover the rust or make a seal over it? Just wondering.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

It's not going to kill you or harm your beer (well it might impart some iron taste) but that rust spot will get worse. Once you chip those canning pots, they are basically hooped.

 

[ajwillys]

Sounds like it was the perfect time for this post to come along:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/40-qrt-stockpot-22-40-35-00-w-shipping-106833/

I'd go with the 60 quart personally.