Thirsty Boy
ICB - tight shorts and poor attitude. **** yeah!
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My rig is specifically designed to be a nice compromise between single and double batches. I mainly brew singles - so its targeted at that, but doubles feature regularly enough to have been considered in the design.
I have a 50L mash tun - its never even come close to not being big enough.. possibly if I tried a double batch of barley wine or something, but I doubt it.
I have a 65L aluminium kettle. A $120 stockpot with a homemade weldless pick-up/tap fitout. Its not stupidly big for single batches and double batches start with 50-55L so I still have some headspace and only have to be normally watchful for boilovers. I get acceptable boil vigor and evaporation at both single and double batch size with this pot.
Burner - I use electricity now - but prior... A stock 3 ring burner on an every day BBQ reg. I just can't understand why people seem to need these massively powerful burners... end of sparge to 55L boiling has never been a more than 15-20min exercise for me. The 3 ring reaches and holds a 55L boil at more than sufficient vigor - with ease. With a single batch - wort was always boiling before sparge was finished and rings had to be turned off during the boil.
I have a 50L mash tun - its never even come close to not being big enough.. possibly if I tried a double batch of barley wine or something, but I doubt it.
I have a 65L aluminium kettle. A $120 stockpot with a homemade weldless pick-up/tap fitout. Its not stupidly big for single batches and double batches start with 50-55L so I still have some headspace and only have to be normally watchful for boilovers. I get acceptable boil vigor and evaporation at both single and double batch size with this pot.
Burner - I use electricity now - but prior... A stock 3 ring burner on an every day BBQ reg. I just can't understand why people seem to need these massively powerful burners... end of sparge to 55L boiling has never been a more than 15-20min exercise for me. The 3 ring reaches and holds a 55L boil at more than sufficient vigor - with ease. With a single batch - wort was always boiling before sparge was finished and rings had to be turned off during the boil.