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Wort boiling in aluminium
    #6860588 - 05/01/07 10:20 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

I have a big AA941. 41.5 qts. I am about to dive into all grain brewing. Can I use aluminium to boil the wort?

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: YidakiMan]
    #6860700 - 05/01/07 10:33 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

I won't use my AA.
If you're around a walmart pick up a stock pot to use,there not as heavy.


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Brainiac]
    #6861742 - 05/02/07 05:03 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

it is recommended that you not use aluminium for homebrewing because it will contribute an off flavor to the beer.

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: daussaulit]
    #6861915 - 05/02/07 07:37 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

That's kinda what I thought. Thanks guys.

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: YidakiMan]
    #6861939 - 05/02/07 07:46 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Stainless steel yo.

Or copper if you're a rich man.


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: YidakiMan]
    #6867360 - 05/03/07 12:13 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

It's not good to cook anything in aluminum really, so I wouldn't recommend it.
I wont even cook camp mac n cheese in an aluminum pot


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Shroomism]
    #6867447 - 05/03/07 12:39 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Then never eat out.


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Brainiac]
    #6868116 - 05/03/07 03:58 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Well I generally don't.. but why not?
Every food serving place I've worked at has used stainless steel pots and such


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Shroomism]
    #6868123 - 05/03/07 04:00 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Most of the big stock pots are aluminium.


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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Brainiac]
    #6868499 - 05/03/07 05:09 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

They're lighter than SS and conduct better heat.

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: daussaulit]
    #6889458 - 05/08/07 02:46 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

So we did it yesterday. 

I did a County Ale clonebrew.  It's a british canadian ESB, I think.
Here's the recipe:
7 lbs 2 row british pale malt
.5 chocolate malt
1 lb crystal malt
.5 wheat
Mashed for an hour at 60C with ~3 and 1/2 gallons, sparged at 76C with about the same volume. I couldnt find the iodine in the cabinet so we went without a starch test.  Total liquor volume was about 6 1/2 gallons.  I found a lot wierd stuff/particulates in the last gallon of liquor and I didn't keep it.  This was boiled in two different kettles simultaneously.  It was boiled with 1 oz Goldings 5AAU and the aroma hops were 1/2 oz Goldings.  The boiled worts were combined in a bottling bucket and measured 4 gallons.  The sink was filled with ice and the wort took forever to cool.  Meanwhile I rehydrated my yeast and then siphoned it down into the carboy and pitched.  I got it in the basement at 12:30AM and we started mashing around 6PM.

When we were done sparging we actually bottled up a malt extract plus specialty grains honey weizen that has been in secondary since around 4/20.  We tasted it flat and at room temperature and it tasted exactly like a Franciskaner Hefe.  I boiled a quart of gyle from the ESB for ten minutes and used it to prime.  :wink:  I couldnt find any corn sugar in the whole house. 

As far as the all grain brew goes here's what I have learned: 
Buy grain from a store with a mill, Drill more holes in the lauter tun, and based on the final wort this time, I am going to try keeping all the liquor. Find a larger kettle, Figure out a new cooling method, Always rehydrate before pitching dry yeast.  I think thats it, but I'll keep thinking about it.

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: YidakiMan]
    #6889821 - 05/08/07 04:39 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Ive only made two batches of beer so far. Both times I have used all grain recipes and I think the biggest mistake of both times was using crystal malt. The first batch we had about 3 pounds of it, which was a disgusting disgusting beer. Of course we also had half a pound of 11% AA hops. The second beer was a wheat beer which only had one pound of crystal malt. Its a pretty delicious beer, but the caramel is too strong in it from the crystal malt.
For my next beer I am going to try and make a vertical epic beer from Stone. www.stonebrew.com/epic They have all the recipes online.

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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: TheCow]
    #6892278 - 05/09/07 04:33 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)



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Re: Wort boiling in aluminium [Re: Brainiac]
    #6894876 - 05/09/07 07:07 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

I don't like aluminum for cookware. Cooking anything acidic in them causes off flavours.

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