Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:32 am
by 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...
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:04 am
by 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
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:00 pm
by 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.
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:15 pm
by 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
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:24 pm
by fulkrum78
Doesn't that make the pole all sticky?
(I know, I know, I couldn't resist)
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:19 pm
by Whitebeard_Brewer
MyloFiore wrote: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!
Re: Marking your brew kettle?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:43 pm
by fulkrum78
oh dear....