Challenges or disadvantage to a rectangular brew kettle?

[jeffsmith]

Many larger brewers will have a cold liquor tank to feed their heat exchanger, with the effluent hot/warm water going to their hot liquor tank, saving a bit of work, and reclaiming that energy. Mostly useful for subsequent brews, of course.

Subsequent brews or cleanup.

[Barr]

Many larger brewers will have a cold liquor tank to feed their heat exchanger, with the effluent hot/warm water going to their hot liquor tank, saving a bit of work, and reclaiming that energy. Mostly useful for subsequent brews, of course.

Yes that's certainly a good use I'm just not sure I'll be brewing enough to really make good use of that method. But I suppose it would be ok to leave it there awhile.

[Barr]

So this is the beauty. Just under 400l filled to the lower part of the rim including the cone bottom. If I can find another I'll make one the mash tun and the other the kettle. The other option is to make a mash basket that comes out but it may just be simpler to go with two vessels.

[jtmwhyte]

That would make a sweet bottom drain kettle. Also you could do open fermentation a la Anchor if you stretched cheesecloth over the top and bungee corded it.

[Barr]

That would make a sweet bottom drain kettle. Also you could do open fermentation a la Anchor if you stretched cheesecloth over the top and bungee corded it.

Yeah just the cone bottom alone is about 30 litres. I'm thinking if I strain the wort and pump off the bottom I should get a pretty good amount of beer out of that. I thought of making covers and fermenting in them with SS elements but I can't seem to find more.