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What does everybody use to insulate their boil kettle? I found some insulation at menards that was aluminum foil wilth plastic air pockets sandwiched between, guess what the plastic melted.
My question is, why would you want to insulate your boil kettle? If on the other hand you meant MASH kettle that I can understand. Yet I'm not sure what your batch size is but if your up there in the ten gallon batch size insulating the kettle should not be neccesary. If you monitor the temp drop on a kettle with 18- 20 lb. of grain it is minimal at best. On the other hand if your grain volume is for a five gallon batch temp swings may be much more evident and require occational corrections.
Steve
