SS Gas boiler/Fermenter

[lorand]

Just out of interest how much would you be prepared to pay for a 50 litre one of these as sold by several HBS.

[Vossy1]

I recently paid £110 for a H&G own brand 50 ltr ss mash tun.

How much would I prefer to pay.....up to £75 quid for the same quality item, but when Catering Direct can get me a 50 ltr stock pot, be them thinner material, for less than £50 to my door, it's hard to justify the extra cost.

All examples above exclude ball valve.

[lorand]

What guage SS is it? 18/10 ?

[Vossy1]

Not sure L, I have nothing to measure it with
I think DaaB or & might be able to answer this one

[prodigal2]

You can use the SS wine fermenters that come in at €100ish for 100L with a ball tap(you may need to change it for a hot water one for €5). One of the members on the forum does this, I will be giving it a try next year.
A good gas burner will set you back about €25-35 with a cast iron legs and supports from a hardware store, makesure they are onepiece as there are spne shoddy ones knocking around though if you a good hardware store they should point you in the right direction

[steve_flack]

i'd buy a stainless fermenter but not a stainless mash tun.

Funny but I've just bought one of those 70L thermoboxes as a new mash tun. Shiny.

[brewsters millionths]

hey steve, ive been looking at those as well. 70l with tap.
how big a batch do you think that size is good for as a mash tun?

[steve_flack]

Depends on your mash thickness and what you brew. I use a thin mash as I use a pump to recirculate so a 1.050, 20L mash would take up 20-25L. So I'd get ten gallons out of that vessel comfortably. If you use a thicker mash you'd get rather more.

[brewsters millionths]

cheers steve.

[AT]

I can quite easily pour 23L of beer down the drain and have several times if a brew doesn't turn out how I want it

[AT]

No point wading through an average beer. I've poured several commercial brews away recently too

stop it

[lorand]

By thermobox do you mean the insulated food containers?

[steve_flack]

One of these

Incidently I haven't thrown one of my own beers away in quite a while. I've thrown a couple of commercial ones away (the last being a Milk Stout from Malta called Lacto)

[guildofevil]

Ooh! That is shiny! Do you use a manifold or false bottom in that?

[steve_flack]

I'm going to try it with a Bazooka Screen to start with - if that doesn't work I'll build a manifold.