aluminum brew pots ??

Nope.

Basic answer is no.

Aluminum conducts heat better, so depending on pot and type of heat, may prevent scorching.

Nah. Points to note. Don't scrub it to clean it. Don't use oxidizing cleansers. Don't remove the brown/grayish oxidized surface and you won't have any problems. Steve W.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:59:08 GMT, " snipped-for-privacy@none.com" said in alt.beer.home-brewing:

Aside from the fact that there will be a minute amount (parts/billion) of aluminum in your beer? Aside from the fact that aluminum ingestion (even in minute amounts) has been (tentatively) linked to Alzheimer's?

No, no reason at all.

Hmm. Please provide scientific evidence of this (both points).

There is no proven link between ingesting aluminum and Alzheimer's. There is a link between Alzheimer's and aluminum. Aluminum has no beneficial function in living cells.

It is possible that it takes more than one condition to get Alzheimer's and aluminum is one of the risk factors.

In my opinion aluminum is probably hazardous to one's health. The risk probably increases when one scours pots with abrasives, or cooks acidic foods in them. Likewise stay away from antiperspirants and antacids containing aluminum . . .

I'm sure my government and Alcoa are collaborating in an effort to prove the safety of aluminum. I'm equally sure I won't trust them to be concerned with my safety over corporate profits.

amazing the diddle gawds around here are KINDA flakes. and have no medical training. (perhaps other than a rubber room). american medical association can explain aluminum. the RESULTS seem to vary on an almost yearly basis.

here is a lil trick for you. crumple up some aluminum foil and stick it in a glass. fill it with water and lemon juice 50 50.

the experiment is just to see what remains after 48 hours. is it bad for humans. i have no idea, but when you see what remains there is NO needs medically of having aluminum in your diet.

generally on this pages, this is a pages of demigogs, seeking really weird ideas. if they can read it out of a text.

personally, i expect to be wrong often. so why does my stuff come out so good. cuz i explore.

no do not drink anything with aluminum. there is no daily intake need of aluminum into humans. why is it even discussed? well a stainless steel stock pot of 4 gallons is 14 dollars.

oh check out the foil in a couple of days remember. brain cells are irrelevant, if you, use them as paving stonez.

And you have medical training? Of course not. You can't even string together a comprehensible sentence, let along pass a Med School exam.

Please post a link to these AMA results and I'll consider your argument.

Well, since I don't eat aluminum foil then suck down a glass of lemon juice, this is irrelevant.

Well, this is the first right thing I've ever seen you post.

We expect you to be wrong all the time. We are usually not dissapointed.

Good to who? Given the advice you dole out on brewing, I wouldn't go anywhere near anything you cook, stew, fry, bake, or brew.

A 4 gallon stainless pot would do me NO good. I brew five gallon batches. I use a 7 gallon aluminum kettle. It works just fine.

A decent brewpot will cost anywhere from around $100 up to over $300.

You must have lots of paving stones around you house, braincell-less one.

luverly stainless steel pot costs 11 dollars aluminum costs 8 no idea why you expound to cheap stuff the stainless pot will last longer than the aluminum.

a requirement of me having medical evaluation is beyond redundant. as a journeyman tech. certification 91J4247793h3 well in a stainless pot he can at least make pasta if he tries to use the aluminum pot to make pasta with tomato he will anodize the aluminum, and weill never get the taste out of the aluminum pot.

hey bone heads the project is life not give me my daily beer.

Brewing Techniques did a study devoted to this several years ago. Beers were brewed in both SS and AL. In the final analysis, there was more AL in the SS brewed beers becasue of the background levels of AL in the water. Bottom line, the AL pots did not leach AL into the beer. Also, most of the current info I've seen has said that the studies linking AL to Alzheimer's are flawed.

----------->Denny

It is more complicated than putting tomato sauce in aluminum to anodize it . . . Acid and strong bases just dissolve aluminum metal and it goes into solution as an aluminum salt.

Anodized aluminum doesn't corrode as easily as bare aluminum and is used to make pots and pans that do not react with foods. Good quality cookware is anodized.

Anodizing is done by making aluminum the anode in an electrolytic solution and passing a current through it. The surface can become harder than tool steel, and is an electrical insulator. There are three general types of anodize coatings and the type has to do with the temperature, solution, and thickness of the coating.

There was an article in Popular Science in 1963 on how to anodize aluminum, so I did an on-line search for a current "how to."

Has the skinny. Basically you clean the aluminum, then you can etch and passivate the parts if desired. After the parts are prepped, they go into an electrolytic tank (sulphuric acid) and becomes the anode in the circuit with lead plates as the cathodes. DC current is passed through the parts until the coating is built up (start at ~20 volts finish at ~130 volts as the insulating coating builds - but you can use low voltage and take longer), from there the parts are rinsed, dyed (color dyed for appearance) and coated.

Cooking pots would require type 3 and get no coatings.

A lot more involved than tomato sauce . . .

Not here in the US. And certainly not of any quality.

Strange. I know folks who have used the same aluminum pot to brew beer for a few years. It seems to be standing up just fine.

What the f*ck are you talking about? I was referring to your statment you had no medical training - and I agreed. I never said anything about a "medical evaluation." You can get that at and doctor's office any day.

And if this conversation had something to do with making sauce for pasta, then that would be relevant. But since it doesn't, why do you bring it up?

Wort "is" acidic 5.4 Ph , surely you mean alkaline Ph 7>>>>14 Cheers Ian in Bendigo Oz .