I'm getting back into brewing with a friend (both of us brewed in the 90's). I was thinking I was boiling over 3 gallons back then, he's talking about boiling 2 gallons with a 3 gallon kettle.
I would have thought boiling less than half the batch size would be
a) really inefficient
and
b) produce marginal results.
Clearly there must be an absolute minimum size and perhaps also a size under which the results will be marginal.
Any guidance or experience with this? Is 2 gallons enough?
I ultimately want to do full boils but we are having to re-acquire brewing supplies and I don't want to drop $200 on a nice boil kettle too. I want to make sure we're going to stick with it first.
I would have thought boiling less than half the batch size would be
a) really inefficient
and
b) produce marginal results.
Clearly there must be an absolute minimum size and perhaps also a size under which the results will be marginal.
Any guidance or experience with this? Is 2 gallons enough?
I ultimately want to do full boils but we are having to re-acquire brewing supplies and I don't want to drop $200 on a nice boil kettle too. I want to make sure we're going to stick with it first.