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"I contacted them and yes they do fill corny kegs. They need 24 hours notice. The keg must be cleaned and sanitized. They will fill them the following day."

"I would be surprised if they didn't. Most of the local breweries will. You would probably have to call to see for sure."

"Way to go Greg! I'll see you out there."

"I do. In a one-hour mash, I may have to fire it up once or twice in the last 30 minutes or so. I highly recommend recirculating your mash when you have the heat on in order to prevent scalding and to have more even heating. In my first system, which…"

"Chris, Do you have a burner under your mash tun since it is a keggle? Do you experience a lot of heat loss or does the keggle hold the temperature fairly well. I know thaey say the coolers hold the temps real well but I haven't heard much about…"

"I just picked up my first keg a couple of days ago and I am picking up two more tomorrow so I will have 3 empty kegs. Ready to begin converting to keggles! I know I need to put a false bottom in the mash tun, do you guys recommend putting one…"

"I use converted kegs and love them. If you have access to a plasma cutter, it makes the conversion job a walk in the park. On a separate note, I am considering selling my all-grain rig. It's a pretty nice setup. If you were at the brewout this…"

"So of the people using keggles how many of you converted your own or did you buy them already converted? I have located some empty keg shells and I am thinking about converting them myself versus paying out a couple of hundred…"

"You will if you want to boil all of your wort at one time.  Until then you could still boil in the 5 1/2 gallon brewpot and topoff with boiled and then cooled water into your fermentor.  You may already do that with your extract…"

"I currently have a 20.5 quart or 5-1/2 gallon brewpot for my extract brewing. If I wanted to start off trying to brew a 5 gallon batch of all-grain I would still need to get a larger brewpot correct?"

"The advantage of a direct fire mash tun is you can maintain temps and do step mashes. You can do that too with a HERMS set up.   Time: January 8, 2011 from 9am to 2pm Location: Brewers Connection and select location in the state. Event Type:…"

"Great information Darren! I noticed that you said your mash tun was direct fired. Are there advantages to being able to heat the mash tun? Obviously you couldn't do that using a cooler as the mash tun. What time is the brewout? I would love to…"

"Robert,   <~~ in my experience , plan for the future. I saved up and bought a new 60 qt HLT tank and Im kicking myself for not buying the 80 qt. So when you are planning on making a purchase remember that in the home brew world, think about…"

"That sounds about right.   I started with gravity and went to a March pump. Relatedly, I started with immersion chiller and went to a plate chiller, but might go back to an immersion.  This decision has nothing to do with any chilling…"

"Rob, Your 2 converted kegs and the cooler as a mash tun sounds like a common and popular setup. That was the direction I am leaning on going right now. It looks to me like a step up would be to add a third converted keg as the mash tun. Then another…"