The BoilerMaker line of brew pots have been designed specifically for home brewing. Blichmann didn't sacrifice features or quality by leveraging a combination of existing cooking pots...They designed the ideal pot from the ground up and built them from scratch! Note that the sizes are perfect for home brew batch sizes!
· Heavy 18ga 304 stainless steel construction
· 10/15/20/30/55 gal sizes designed specifically for home brewing batch sizes (5gal to 1bbl)
· Includes adjustable BrewMometer and their 3 pc stainless ball valve as standard
· Heavy duty borosilicate GLASS level gauge never clouds or scratches is standard equipment! Features rugged stainless steel guard with laser etched volume graduations, cleaning brush and clean-out ports.
· Exclusive snap-in dip tube design installs without tools and drains to within 3/8” of bottom!
· Handles oriented to make carrying easier and the lid stores neatly on the pot handle!
· Stepped bottom on pot supports mash screen and virtually eliminate sidewall shunting
· Patent pending optional button louver false bottom is a hybrid of a perforated screen (high efficiency) and a slotted manifold (plug resistance) – get the best of both!!
· Optional boil screen with shield keeps hops and hot break out of your fermentor
Blichmann Engineering is committed to continuous product improvement, so design details may change from the photo's shown.
Selection Guide & Data
Key to top performance of your new BoilerMaker brew pot is selecting the size that best fits your brewing needs. Selecting too small, or too big of a brew pot, mash tun, or hot liquor tank (HLT) can cause frustration and poor performance.
Boil kettles: Blichmann recommends that you always do a full wort boil, as do most brewing texts and advanced brewers. This will minimize the addition of top-up water to compensate for boil-off, and starting with the volume called for in your recipe will let you know early in the process if you've hit your target gravity giving you more time to correct the problem. Also, you'll get more consistent hop utilization by sticking to the recipe volumes, as utilization changes significantly with specific wort gravity. Last, but certainly not least, is boil-over prevention...having enough head space will keep this irritating problem at bay.
That said, they recommend a boil kettle approximately 2 times the size of the finished batch size. Although this may sound like a bit much, a 10 gal batch will typically start with 13-14 gal pre-boil once you compensate for cooling contraction, transfer losses, and boil off. This will allow for a reasonable head space to reduce boil-over problems. For example, if you're a 10gal batch brewer, you'd select the 20 gal BoilerMaker brew pot as your boil kettle.
Mash Vessels: Blichmann recommends filling your mash vessel no more than 75% of capacity. This will allow sufficient space for dough-in of the grains and additions of sparge water and sparge arms, etc. The chart below includes various water to grist ratios to assist you in your selection. The green column is their recommended water to grist ratio. Minimum volumes are to ensure that the thermometer probe is adequately submerged, and also so you have an adequate grain bed depth for proper wort filtration. Blichmann has designed the BoilerMakertm brew pot sizes to seamlessly blend from size to size, so you'll never need to sacrifice.
Hot Liquor Tanks: Blichmann recommends sizing your HLT the same size as your mash tun to ensure you have plenty of sparge water available on brew day.
Recommended 3 Kettle Systems For Typical Batch Sizes (HLT/Mash/Boil):
5 gal batch: 10/10/10
10 gal batch: 15/15/20
15-20 gal batch: 20/20/30
30 gal batch: 30/30/55
