My 16 gal barely has enough room for 10 gallon full volume batches and 22lbs of grain, its like 1/2" from the top. With BIAB i think a good rule of thumb for full volume mashes is double your batch size.
49 quarts will be fine for most 5 gallon batches but may have trouble with a barleywine.
Update time. I harvested the barely several months ago but only got about 1.5lbs of good looking barley. Chickens and lodging did a bit of damage and then some aphids or other insect also weakened it.
I think my barely growing experiment is done because that area of the yard would be better...
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I have a new in box, never used stainless chugger pump. $110 shipped. I thought I would need it for 10 gallon batches but we figured out a way that doesn't require it.
I didn't do much research on the secondary chugger pump market yet so I am willing to come down in price if...
Meh, they make a lot of terrible comparisons. 5 gallon all grain with secondary and bottling to extract. The brewing process is completely irrelevant to this product and should have been left out because this does not save any space like they wasted the first minute of video claiming.
It look...
I graduated from 2 vessel brewing to BIAB a couple years ago and haven't looked back. Efficiency went up because i could crush very fine. BIAB and my own grain mill put my efficiency from ~60% up to the high 70's. Where i used to buy 15lbs of grain, I now buy 10 or 11.
Unless you are doing...
Amateur to expert gifting should really be done with caution. Likely your coworker has a very specific list of things he wants that only him or his wife (if appicable) knows.
Something that I bet 99% of homebrewers or winemakers don't have but would use is the set of super accurate hydrometers...
Have you been using "green pads" or green scotchbrite? There is a big difference as scothbrite makes industrial scrubbing pads where each color has a certain abrasiveness.