Marking your brew kettle?

[fulkrum78]

Does anyone have some advice for the best way to mark the gl measures on your brew pot? I have a 10gl Polarware that I'd love to have measurements on. Tried marking my plastic stir spoon but the wort ate the sharpie ink off...

[Mylo]

Instead of marking your kettle, I used one pass of a tubing cutter to mark volumes in my kettle on a copper tube. Ideally, you want to do this at boil temps - because your wort will expand as heat is added. I didn't go to this extreme because, franky, it's a pain in the ass. I just fudge it and put a little extra wort in bit pre-boil (well, JUST pre-boil) to account for the ... um, ... shrinkage when it cools.


Mylo

[Whitebeard_Brewer]

I got one of those oak dowel rods, from Lowes or HD, and marked it at 1/2 gallon increments, then went back and burned in the marks with a soldering iron. Works like a champ.

[Mylo]

Leave it to WhiteBeard to stick his wood in boiling wort....

.... in his shiney kettle

.... on his well crafted, Brutus clone.


I'm not bitter.... I'm just sayin'.


Mylo

[fulkrum78]

Doesn't that make the pole all sticky?

(I know, I know, I couldn't resist)

[Whitebeard_Brewer]

Leave it to WhiteBeard to stick his wood in boiling wort....

I'm not bitter.... I'm just sayin'.


Mylo

AND, it's 3 feet long!

[fulkrum78]

oh dear....