[Gorzaloon]

I need a big boiling pot like that! How much does an old beer keg cost anyway? Are they stainless or alumninum?

Stainless. I have been warned to never allow aluminum to touch beer. It is supposed to do bad things to the beer, such as a laxative effect on the drinkers.

Experienced brewers, is this an old wive's tale?

[IronKros]

Stainless. I have been warned to never allow aluminum to touch beer. It is supposed to do bad things to the beer, such as a laxative effect on the drinkers. Experienced brewers, is this an old wive's tale?

Not a laxative effect.
The metal is leeched off due to the ph and can store up in the body... eventually leading to bad things.

[wvguy]

Stainless. I have been warned to never allow aluminum to touch beer. It is supposed to do bad things to the beer, such as a laxative effect on the drinkers.

Experienced brewers, is this an old wive's tale?

Probably. I think the more beer you drink has a greater laxative effect than what you drink it from. :-)

That said... no good beer comes from aluminum cans. Even the worst swill (Bud, Coors, et al) tastes better drank from a glass vessel than an aluminum can. Probably has something to do with the way taste buds react with glass vs. aluminum.

Prosit!