Considering selling up and down sizing

[Sbond10]

Im thinking of selling my 100ltr s/s pan and down sizing to a 50 ltr pan and possiably a 40ltr mash tun.
My main reason are i never brew more than 23 ltr s so its kinda pointless having such a big pan, i bought it at the time of buy the biggest pan you can afford mind set seemed to be around and at the time i was thinking about stepping up to 46 then 70 ltr batches but this never materilised.
At the moment i biab so this was the main reason the bigger batches never materialised i struggle to lift more than 6-7kg grain bill (no im not old just know my limits).

So whats everyone elses thoughts on this

 

[AdeDunn]

For a normal person, I'd say a 50 litre pan is perfect for BIAB. Brewing bigger batches, you start needing hoists etc just to lift the grain, trolleys to move the FV, a cellar to store the bottles.... lol A 50 litre pan is also easier to heat. Oh and if you're brewing big batches, you're not brewing as often as you might like to be, where brewing smaller batches you can brew more often with more variety.

For what it's worth, I brew 23 litre batches in a 33 litre pan. It's tight though, especially for larger grain bills. I have to use the old kettle top up then FV top up method to get to volume. I'd be much happier with a 50 litre pan, so yeah, 50 litres is about perfect for BIAB I'd say.

All that said, I'd be tempted to keep the 100 litres too..... lol You know, in case you get asked to brew for a wedding or something....Justin as my wife calls it... lol

 

[Sbond10]

If i down size ill have to sell the 100ltr to fund the 50 ltr. Just idea s at the moment.
Powell do a 50 litre with sight glass and tap for just hundred notes.
I could email and ask how much for the pan and sight glass and a hole drilled for tank connecter would be. That would signifigatly reduce the bill

 

[Sbond10]

If i down size ill have to sell the 100ltr to fund the 50 ltr. Just idea s at the moment.
Powell do a 50 litre with sight glass and tap for just hundred notes.
I could email and ask how much for the pan and sight glass and a hole drilled for tank connecter would be. That would signifigatly reduce the bill

 

[AdeDunn]

I have one of their false bottoms, it's excellent. I did however have to replace the "legs" as they were way to short for me using an electric element. Luckily they're just hex headed bolts, so just replaced them with longer ones made of 316 stainless.

If I upgrade to 50 litres, that's possibly who I'll go to. My wife got very twitchy towards the end of my 33 litre build, and now jokes that I should have bought a hole and build a pan up around it..... Plus cutting a hole as close to the bottom as they manage to is NOT easy at all. Not for me it wasn't anyway. lol

 

[Sbond10]

Id happily pay someone 5-10 quid to punch a hole in the pan, a q max is around 13 quid and then hss bits are a few quid. Then theres the stress of doing it, theyve done hundreds and know exactly were to punch the hole. As you say its not easy.

Powell are still one of the cheapest and they have everything built up shop n go basically