what next

[richc]

(typing with one hand with 1 month old on other so please forgive typos etc)

I'm after advice on what I should look to getting next....

At the moment I brew extract recipes and am just venturing into steeping and brew in a bag partial mashes. I make 20l batches using a partial boil in a ~10l pan on the stove top.
My obvious choice is to go for a full boil but how should i do this?

A bigger pan or a specialist piece of kit. I'm tempted by the thermostatic mash tun/boiler combo things but have heard a few bad stories.

Any advice would be welcome

 

[ano]

My two penneth worth.

The next step is a boiler. Either a home made plastic bucket with kettle elements, a shop bought plastic bucket with kettle elements, or something else. IMO a thermostat appears to cause more trouble than it's worth, I mean you're boiling so, unless you're exceptionally green, just leave the element on (or set it up to a power supply which allows for a 50 - 75% duty cycle).

 

[prolix]

yeap a boiler, you can get burco boilers from ebay etc, plastic boilers from HBS or DIT a stainless pot from nordic. ALl depends on budget and wether you are going to go 10gallon in the future.

ebay stuff, if second hand tends to hold value when you resell it

something like this

 

[Mark1964]

Dont buy an electrim mashing/boiler they dont keep the temperature of a mash stable they are ok for boiling but nothing else and they are about £70 you could buy a 50 litre ss pot and put an element in it cheaper