Equipment for Batch Sparging

neoanto

Guys,

I'm making the leap from extract brewing to AG and i have everything i need except a 15ltr stock pot for the batch sparge.
I could do other methods but this seems the simplest.

Anyway, its difficult to find a pot big enough in a regular store, other than buying on a homebrew webstore.
I was wondering if i could use a fermenter to store the batch water and insulate it, (need to have the water at 80C).
It only has to keep the water hot for the time it takes to drain my first wort from the mash tun.

What do you think? Or should i just bite the bullet and be a 15ltr stock pot?

RasTa

What are you doing the boil in?

drumswan

I do it the other way round - transfer the wort into a 33L fermenter, use the kettle to heat the sparge water, then once Im done transfer the wort to the kettle.

Buying the stockpot simplifies things however.

BeerNut

neoanto wrote: »

Anyway, its difficult to find a pot big enough in a regular store, other than buying on a homebrew webstore.

If you're in Dublin, try Living Island on Talbot Street, down the back. I got a cheap one there. Those sorts of discount homeware shops often have good value pots, jugs and the like.

Bogwoppit

drumswan wrote: »

I do it the other way round - transfer the wort into a 33L fermenter, use the kettle to heat the sparge water, then once Im done transfer the wort to the kettle.

This

viper123

Dunnes Stores will hopefully still have some on sale, they were selling them for boiling up xmas hams on the lead up to Christmas.

oblivious

Home store and more have some large stock post

neoanto

drumswan wrote: »

I do it the other way round - transfer the wort into a 33L fermenter, use the kettle to heat the sparge water, then once Im done transfer the wort to the kettle.

Buying the stockpot simplifies things however.

I should have thought of this!