turboedbug
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will it work for 5-5 1/2 gallon batches?
so it looks like I'm gonna need a bigger kettle, man this sucks I just transfered to arizona from washington and I have a couple kegs sitting in storage that I forgot to grab.
will it work for 5-5 1/2 gallon batches?
I used to brew in my 7g canning crock. It was MORE THAN SUFFICIENT! Hell, I brewed a 6.5 gallon batch in it - without boil-overs. You guys don't need nearly 3 gallons of headspace. 8 gallons will be fine for your 5-5.5 gallon batches. The only time I have ever had boil-overs is when I left the pot alone before it had settled into its full-rolling boil. I guess people are getting too lazy to stand around their pot while it starts to boil nowadays, and adjust to maintain a full boil without boil-over.
You don't have
I don't think I could do a 6.5g batch in an 8g pot, and not have all sorts of DMS issues.
You are assuming I don't. But yet I did. When I used MY pot in MY system.
You might want to look at your cooling methods if you get DMS issues. You want to cool it quickly.
You have 3 gallons of headspace in an 8 gallon pot while making 6.5 gallon batches? How exactly do you manage that?
DMS has nothing to do with cooling, and everything to do with boiling off the DMS precursors.
You have 3 gallons of headspace in an 8 gallon pot while making 6.5 gallon batches? How exactly do you manage that?
I brewed a 6.5 gallon batch in it - without boil-overs. You guys don't need nearly 3 gallons of headspace. 8 gallons will be fine for your 5-5.5 gallon batches.
Oh my mistake. I'll throw out all the texts that say the contrary. To include the wiki on this site.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Which is my point. As does a slower rolling boil not hurt, or a shorter boil. Just because someone says something doesn't mean you will have the same results. I was refuting his point of the hard rolling boil being the only thing to rid a beer of unwanted DMS. But you solidified that point. I guess it can't be read in my replies since it seems I am only saying you need to cool as quickly as possible. Not so, I've also put wort outside overnight without any ill effects as well. I don't make a practice of it, as there are other factors beside DMS I am concerned about. Especially when I was in dusty West Texas.There has been a lot of discussion on this issue . No Chill kinda throws the cool quickly to avoid DMS out the window .
I will have nothing to worry about for my next brew.
Famous last words.
But to say someone cannot use an 8 gallon pot to brew 5-5.5 gallons of beer is not true at best. Just because you don't do it, and think it can't be done, doesn't make it so. There is lots of stuff we take for granted nowadays that many had to do without back in the day. And to tell someone they can't do something only stifles the creativity we need.
Now let's make some beer.
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