$60 BIAB Set up - Everything you need apart from a bag and grain!

[Reviled]

FYI

Noticed today that the warehouse is selling 28litre Aliminium cray pots with a burner and lifting tray thing... Its on special from $100 down to $60 and is pretty much everything you need to get BIAB'ing apart from a bag and some grain.. Youd be able to get away with about 20 litre batches with this..

Kettles generally the most expensive part and this is cheap cheap cheap!

[JoKing]

Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. I paid $200 for mine! Gonna build up that 2112 with the next Blonde... Nugget Nectar I'm gonna call it. Smash with 11.6% Nugget.

[jt]

I manage a 26 litre boil in a 28 litre still base - a bit hairy at times I must admit.
But I manage to get 21 litres in the fermenter so all is good

[Reviled]

Pretty good considering you get the burner and reg with it, I paid $120 something for my pot alone, sure its SS but still!!!

[James P]

That must be an Auckland thing, haven't see it down in CHCH yet... oh well I'll to make do with my 50litre kegs.... :p

[Nolen Smith]

Any of you guys use Aluminium kettles? I'd always heard that you shouldn't for boiling wort... but don't now remember why (some chemical reaction or something) or where I heard it.

[Reviled]

It can be bad with things like tomatos? cos of the acidity, but its fine for wort, a heap of people use em and theres no probs...

[vdog]

I've got an aluminium one (38L) - now relegated to HLT only though, as I've got a converted stainless keg with a tap which is bigger (so bigger batches) and also easier to get the cooled wort out of with the tap. Never had a problem with any reactivity while I was using the aluminium one for full wort boils.

[denimglen]

Nah, there's no problem with ali kettles, John Palmer says so, and he's a metallurgist by trade.

It's better than SS in the sense that it conducts heat better, is easier to work with and heaps cheaper.

The alzhiemers - ali link was a half assed study and it's never been proved that food stored or cooked in ali will give you alzheimers.

Ali is quite a reactive metal, but this is good because it forms a very strong oxidized coating that is quite unreactive. As long as you're not using abrasives on it and cleaning it shiny bright they're fine to use. And I believe that at the worst it just gives a metallic off-taste.

I think I remember reading somewhere, maybe in How to Brew, that brewing in an Ali pot the entire 20L of beer contains less ali than one antacid tablet.

[James P]

Here's some more information taken from here....

Antiperspirants: Almost 100% of antiperspirants are made with a form of aluminum.

Shampoos, Skin Care Products, Personal Care Products: A large number of these items have aluminum based ingredients. Spend a few minutes reading the ingredients on the bottles of personal care items at the drugstore and you will be astounded by the number of products that contain aluminum based ingredients. In fact, it should be especially disturbing that so many “personal care” items contain aluminum since the news about aluminum and Alzheimer’s Disease has been known for years. Do these companies just not care? I wonder if their executives use their aluminum laden products?

Antacids: There are several different salts that are used in antacids. A very common one is aluminum hydroxide. There are alternatives such as magnesium and calcium carbonate found in other products.

[denimglen]

Yup.

"...Do not clean aluminum shiny bright or use bleach to clean an aluminum brewpot because this removes the protective oxides and can result in a metallic taste. This taste-detectable level of aluminum is not hazardous. There is more aluminum in a common antacid tablet than would be present in a batch of beer made in an aluminum pot..."

All here.

[MrC]

Not in my house there aint.

My wife make all our soap, we only buy deodorants, shampoos, etc from places like Common Sense Organics, I drink lots of coffee (anti-alzheimers) and only drink natural beers.

These products are just like beer. You get what you pay for and the mass produced products are driven by price/cost not quality.