I have two extra 50L sanke kegs. I was wondering if anyone has seen any photos of anyone who have converted both into a single kettle?
I was thinking of cutting the bottom off of one of the kegs and the top off the other and merging them into a big brew pot.
Thoughts?
Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
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Re: Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
That's what we use.
The General (the kettle, not Chris
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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
nice.
how big of a batch can you do?
how big of a batch can you do?
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The General or Chris?
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Re: Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
On that system we can do 60L (final product) at a time.sleepyjamie wrote:nice.
how big of a batch can you do?
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
thought so. looks good!
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Monde Souterrain (Dark Saison)
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Re: Forging two sanke kegs into a single kettle?
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