You're correct JA. The kettle was 32 quart. The pump is a mag drive.

Oh, Nosybear, I meant stainless steel. My apologies.

Well, nflamed, the mash bed is the diameter of the tun, 14 inches. The lid was not on. Maybe it was a stuck mash.

I got another one. The new is 'metal metal'.

I have a theory... Of course I have the benefit of being there. Before flame out on the mash, I started the pump to the boil kettle, full blast. When the flame out occurred, small particles of the grist settled on the screen and plugged it off. The momentum of the wort through hoses created a...

The tun is 32 qt aluminum. It was sitting on a 14 inch square, 1/8 inch expanded mild steel. Please rest assured, this is no illusion. The bottom is collapsed upward, right up to the sparge screen. That is about one and a half inches. Best regards.

OK. The tun is aluminum, 6010. We've used the pot for eight months. She was completely full. I don't know what 'metal metal' is. No one was injured. Got good wort for two more batches after the (disastrous, majical, mystical) collapse. Thank you For the welcome.

I just joined this service. I brewed my first batch of beer in 1997. I love brewing. I had a very strange thing happen this weekend. Whilst transferring from the mash tun in a three kettle system to the boil kettle, the mash kettle collapsed. Anyone else experience this? I took it as a...