I’ve regained my desire to brew after a long trip through California, but I’m going smaller.
Currently I have a 10 gal water cooler mash tun, but I’ve modified a little 2 gal jug I have to use now by opening up the spigot port to allow a bottling bucket spigot. The lid is just a thin piece of plastic and it loses heat rapidly (I’ve used this once on my first partial mash) so I cut some foam from packaging of some sort to fit within the lid.
Though the foam under the lid won’t have straight up contact there will be plenty of condensation falling back off of it. Would this be a toxin hazard? And what of the spigot handling the extreme heat of preheating the tun?
Currently I have a 10 gal water cooler mash tun, but I’ve modified a little 2 gal jug I have to use now by opening up the spigot port to allow a bottling bucket spigot. The lid is just a thin piece of plastic and it loses heat rapidly (I’ve used this once on my first partial mash) so I cut some foam from packaging of some sort to fit within the lid.
Though the foam under the lid won’t have straight up contact there will be plenty of condensation falling back off of it. Would this be a toxin hazard? And what of the spigot handling the extreme heat of preheating the tun?