My brother and I are starting a brewpub. We've been thinking about building our brewhouse from used and fabricated equip. The brewhouse size is going to be small, we're aiming at somewhere between 2-5Bls.
At the junkyard today, I stumbled upon an old 60 gallon jacketed steam kettle. As far as I can tell, it was used on board a navy vessel (we live close to a base). They want $75 dollars for it. The parts look to be in good working order, but I haven't had the opportunity to pressure test it. As far as I can tell, it's aluminum (heavily oxidized, but intact), although I didn't have a magnet with me, and the guy at the yard didn't seem to know (strange, but true)
Has anyone had any experience with these? Seems like a perfect boil kettle. Is this too good to be true, or a piece of junk that's going to sit in my yard for the rest of my life. Any advice, help, etc. would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
At the junkyard today, I stumbled upon an old 60 gallon jacketed steam kettle. As far as I can tell, it was used on board a navy vessel (we live close to a base). They want $75 dollars for it. The parts look to be in good working order, but I haven't had the opportunity to pressure test it. As far as I can tell, it's aluminum (heavily oxidized, but intact), although I didn't have a magnet with me, and the guy at the yard didn't seem to know (strange, but true)
Has anyone had any experience with these? Seems like a perfect boil kettle. Is this too good to be true, or a piece of junk that's going to sit in my yard for the rest of my life. Any advice, help, etc. would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
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