What size brew kettle should I buy?

Pretty much all homebrewing kettles, and all the kettles sold by MoreBeer!, are now made of Stainless Steel.  The price of stainless steel has come down in price over the last 10 years to a point where Enamel Coated, Aluminum, or any other type of kettle need not even be considered.  

As for kettle size we recommend choosing a kettle that is ideally 50% larger than your batch size, but a bare minimum of at least 30% larger.  So if you are making 5 gallon batches we recommend you choose around a 7.5 gallon kettle. This will allow you to boil a starting volume of 6 gallons when doing a full-wort boil.  

It does not hurt to got with a slightly larger kettle.  We sell many 8 and 9 gallon kettles for people doing 5 gallon batches.  Additionally if you think that you may want to upgrade to 10 gallon batches some day you can buy a 15 gallon kettle and still make a 5 gallon batch. However in these scenarios you do need a special wort chiller called a our 5/10 Split.

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