kurds_2408
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So after a year break, not intentional just a bad year, I've starting brewing again. After brewing last night I've decided it's time to stop using my 7.5 gallon pot. I've used 10.5 gallon pots before and feel like that's a good size for me. I do BIAB with a poor over sparge and use the steamer basket and pulley to make that super easy. My instinct says buy a 10.5 gallon pot with matching basket and get to brewing. I don't need a valve on bottom and still being young I don't mind just tipping the wort into my bucket. I prolly prefer it actually. But may add a ball valve later. All that being said, with all the people using keggles I can't help but consider them. It seems like a bad idea for me but I gotta at least ask. Especially cause I have a source for a cheap, and legal, keg. And i can cut and drill it myself. My concerns are, I can't use a descent size steamer basket for my bag with the smaller opening, I can't poor it into my ferm bucket do to the lip and the cumbersome size, I feel like it'll take way longer to heat, especially with the bottom being raised a little, it's bigger than I need cause I only do 5 gallons, and lastly I'll have to get some sort of false bottom for it so my basket doesn't sit on my dip tube. Only benefits I can see is price, and I could one day do 10 gallons. But I could just make a keggle when that day comes. But I figured I'd ask the community before I pull the trigger on a pot. Mostly I'm just glad to be brewing again.
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