Crunched
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I'm converting a 50L keg into a my BIAB brew kettle/mash tun and just wanted to know what others have done in terms of fittings for taps and thermometers etc.
I was thinking of going with a stainless steel ball lock tap and mashmaster's thermometer (the threaded one). How have others fitted their taps? I would like to weld some kind of threaded socket for the thermometer and something similar for the tap. Are their common fittings for this purpose? I'm able to weld stainless steel and as such would like to build the kettle in a way that would get rid of as many little nooks and crannies as possible to make sanitising easier.
Also, as this will eventually become part of an AG setup, has anyone got any tips on design? And should I build it in such a way that I can later use it as a mash tun? And just build a simple kettle out of my other keg later?.
I was thinking of going with a stainless steel ball lock tap and mashmaster's thermometer (the threaded one). How have others fitted their taps? I would like to weld some kind of threaded socket for the thermometer and something similar for the tap. Are their common fittings for this purpose? I'm able to weld stainless steel and as such would like to build the kettle in a way that would get rid of as many little nooks and crannies as possible to make sanitising easier.
Also, as this will eventually become part of an AG setup, has anyone got any tips on design? And should I build it in such a way that I can later use it as a mash tun? And just build a simple kettle out of my other keg later?.