Boilermaker® Brewing Pots - 10 Gallons to 55 Gallons

Purchase Boilermaker® Brewing Pots - 10 Gallons to 55 Gallons

The BoilerMaker® line of brew pots have been designed specifically for home brewing.  No sacrificing features or quality by leveraging a combination of existing cooking pots...designed to be the ideal pot from the ground up and built from scratch!  Note that the sizes are perfect for home brew batch sizes!

Your brewpot will be shipped to directly from the manufacturer, Blichmann Engineering. Please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery via Fedex Ground or Fedex Home Delivery.

Features We All WANT!

*Heavy 18ga 304 stainless steel construction
*10/15/20/30/55 gal sizes designed specifically for home brewing batch sizes (5gal to 1bbl)
*Includes adjustable BrewMometer and 3 pc stainless ball valve as standard
*Heavy duty borosilicate GLASS level gauge never clouds or scratches is standard equipment!
*Features rugged stainless steel guard with laser etched volume graduations, cleaning brush and clean-out ports.  
*Exclusive snap-in dip tube design installs without tools and drains to within 3/8” of bottom!
*Handles oriented to make carrying easier and the lid stores neatly on the pot handle!
*Stepped bottom on pot supports mash screen and virtually eliminate sidewall shunting
*Patent pending optional button louver false bottom is a hybrid of a perforated screen (high efficiency) and a slotted manifold (plug resistance) – get the best of both!!
*Optional boil screen with shield keeps hops and hot break out of your fermentor

Shown here is the 20 gal BoilerMaker brew pot showing all standard equipment:

*Stainless 3pc ball valve with dip tube
*Adjustable angle BrewMometer
*Glass level gauge with stainless guard & laser etched graduations
*Handles
*Lid
*Stepped bottom for optional false bottom

ALL the above features are STANDARD on these quality brewpots!

Standard dip tube allows you to drain within 3/8" of bottom of pot for less lost wort! Unique snap-in design means you can remove/install without tools!



Glass Level Gauge with Stainless Guard & Clean-outs


Borosilicate heavy wall GLASS level gauge will never yellow or cloud. Cleaning is quick and easy since we provide clean-out ports on the top and bottom and include a brush for cleaning! The heavy gauge stainless guard is laser etched with volume graduations for accurate readings...no more guessing!






Clean-out brush for sight glass! Cleaning the sight glass couldn't be easier - included with your BoilerMaker is a brush to make cleaning the inside of the level gauge tube a snap! Removable screws are located on each end of the gauge to insert the cleaning brush.






Stepped Bottom

These custom made pots feature a stepped bottom. Our optional patent pending button louver false bottom sits on this ledge for a tight seal. During lauter, the weight of the grains pushes it against the ledge making an impervious seal virtually eliminating sidewall shunting and the resultant loss of efficiency! All this AND an incredibly low foundation water!


Button Louver False Bottom

Patent pending button louver false bottom is a hybrid of a perforated false bottom (high efficiency) and a slotted manifold (plug resistance) to give you the best of BOTH designs! Not recommended for boil kettles - use the optional boil kettle screen & shield instead.

Interior View of BoilerMaker Brew Pot

This interior view shows the optional button louver false bottom. Note that the thermometer and dip tube do not protrude excessively into the pot to stay out of the way of the stir paddle.


Lid rests on pot handle!

True to all Blichmann designs - they've thought of all the details - including a place to rest the lid! In addition, they've oriented the handles so when you carry the pot the valve and thermometer don't get in your way.



Heat Shield

We also include a 6" X 10" X 24ga stainless plate to shield the valve, BrewMometer, and level gauge from the heat of high BTU burners. Depending on the design of your burner, you may need to fabricate a bracket to hold it in place (brackets are not included with the shield)  

Blichmann BoilerMaker® Selection Guide & Data

Key to top performance of your new BoilerMaker® brew pot is selecting the size that best fits your brewing needs.  Selecting too small, or too big of a brew pot, mash tun, or hot liquor tank (HLT) can cause frustration and poor performance.

Boil kettles: we recommend that you always do a full wort boil, as do most brewing texts and advanced brewers. This will minimize the addition of top-up water to compensate for boil-off, and starting with the volume called for in your recipe will let you know early in the process if you've hit your target gravity giving you more time to correct the problem.  Also, you'll get more consistent hop utilization by sticking to the recipe volumes, as utilization changes significantly with specific wort gravity.  Last, but certainly not least, is boil-over prevention...having enough head space will keep this irritating problem at bay.

That said, we recommend a boil kettle approximately 2 times the size of the finished batch size.  Although this may sound like a bit much, a 10 gal batch will typically start with 13-14 gal pre-boil once you compensate for cooling contraction, transfer losses, and boil off.  This will allow for a reasonable head space to reduce boil-over problems.  For example, if you're a 10gal batch brewer, you'd select the 20 gal BoilerMaker brew pot as your boil kettle.

Mash Vessels: we recommend filling your mash vessel no more than 75% of capacity.  This will allow sufficient space for dough-in of the grains and additions of sparge water and sparge arms, etc.  Volumes given are to ensure that the thermometer probe is adequately submerged, and also so you have an adequate grain bed depth for proper wort filtration.  We've designed the BoilerMaker brew pot sizes to seamlessly blend from size to size, so you'll never need to sacrifice.

Hot Liquor Tanks: we recommend sizing your HLT the same size as your mash tun to ensure you have plenty of sparge water available on brew day.  

Recommended 3 Kettle Systems For Typical Batch Sizes (HLT/Mash/Boil):

   5 gal batch:           10/10/10

   10 gal batch:         15/15/20

   15-20 gal batch:    20/20/30

   30 gal batch:         30/30/55

Purchase Boilermaker® Brewing Pots - 10 Gallons to 55 Gallons