{"id":33,"date":"2012-01-08T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottlefarm.com\/blog\/files\/b04d28ab03e090c4fc53a1c0c05cfc93-6.php#unique-entry-id-6"},"modified":"2013-04-13T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T19:58:44","slug":"no-longer-borrowed-or-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/no-longer-borrowed-or-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"No longer borrowed or blue. My new brew kettle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">I\u2019m wary of thinking more expensive gear, will make better beer. Yes, it can make things easier, but does it really make better beer?<br \/>\nWith that said, I\u2019ve made some small investments in my equipment with the intention of improving the quality of my beer, and making cleanup easier.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">I\u2019ve been very fortunate, I\u2019ve had to purchase very little of my own brewing equipment. I had keen eye on free cycle and snagged a nearly complete home brewing setup. A 5g pot, 2 carboys, fermentor, funnels, capper, blow off valves, wort chiller, etc. So far my primary investments have been ingredients, books, and a turkey burner.<br \/>\nWith the basics taken care of. I did some research into what the experts thought was the next improvement I could make to my equipment to improve my beer. It seems the experts agree that full boils make brewing quality beer easier. You eliminate the need to top off water. I believe you improve the hop utilization* (no real studies have been done). You also are able to limit the melanoidin reactions (browning \/ caramelization) by diluting the extract. Yes, there are techniques, that many partial boil brewers utilize to limit some of those factors, but truth be told it\u2019s just easier to brew full volume. There is no need boil top up water, no need to mix wort and water in the fermentor. So my first big acquisition, beyond kegging equipment which I\u2019ll discuss later, is an 10 gallon brew kettle.<br \/>\nThis is a real deal kettle, with welded port, and spigot.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not really sure what the point of this post, is other than to let you all know, I have a bigger brew kettle, and can now do full volume boils.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_0932.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 0932\" src=\"http:\/\/thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0932.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m wary of thinking more expensive gear, will make better beer. Yes, it can make things easier, but does it really make better beer?<br \/>\nWith that said, I\u2019ve made some small investments in my equipment with the intention of improving the quality of my beer, and making cleanup easier.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been very fortunate, I\u2019ve had to purchase very little of my own brewing equipment. I had keen eye on free cycle and snagged a nearly complete home brewing setup. A 5g pot, 2 carboys, fermentor, funnels, capper, blow off valves, wort chiller, etc. So far my primary investments have been ingredients, books, and a turkey burner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,16,89],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-and-thoughts","tag-brewing-kettle","tag-gear-review","tag-polarware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebottlefarm.com\/wpbottle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}