How much do you leave behind?

[noremorse1]

It depends on how much hops are used in the recipe that soak up wort. However, as Bugeater said, a pickup tube works great. I bought one of these from Bargainfittings.com for my converted keggle. As is shown here, it leaves a gallon in the kettle. However, I am cutting it shorter at a 45 degree angle before the next brew to get closer to the center, but not into the trub for most beers. This should reduce the amount to 1/4 of a gallon or less.

[Hoont]

Thanks all for the replies! My goal is to get down to 2 - 3 quarts. I guess a little tilting of the kettle and getting a little trub is my best bet. By the way, I also using a pickup from bargainfittings...

Thanks again!

[Ozwald]

I certainly can bump up the recipe to 6.25 though I'm still on the kitchen stove... it took 48 minutes to heat up the 6.87 gallons to boil last night. I just wanted to check to see if my kettle loss was reasonable... sounds like it is.

Are you spanning burners? That helped me shave off a little time when I was stove'n it.

[Hoont]

Yep, I have 1 one burner on high and the other half way... the second one on high results in a lot of wasted flame. Its good enough for me... the stove is 6+ feet from the kegerator.