Its 25 UK gallons according to the label (114L) and is about 50 years old. Everything looked great and I picked up for just $90, only to find that they had resealed the bottom edges with lead based soft solder. I'd hate to think how many crabs they boiled in this lead filled water. After a bit of hunting I found a guy at my local pub who was a welder and happy to do it at work for a case of carlton dry beer. For those non aussies, this is a terrible mega swill beer in australia, in the end after him telling me all the grinding and tig-ing it took to get the lead solder out I gave him two cases of this terrible beer.
The great thing about this unit is it has a built in heat box in the bottom and a flue that comes up the side, so although the burner is only 30000 BTU (about the same as a 3 ring burner) the extra efficiency of the heat box and flue means that it will bring 65L from 66oC up to boiling in about 15 to 20 minutes. I had to turn it down a bit as the roiling boil was almost too intense. It even came with a lid to fit.
It originally came with 3 short legs which meant that the tap was only about 30cm off the ground (I know Pat, taps are the devils spawn
but it already had a threaded port built in, so at this stage and until my first infection, taps it is 
), which is a bit low for draining into no chill drums so for the moment I have take then off and am using it on a stand that was built for another hobby of mine. the stand is on wheels so i can move it around the brew shed easily and I have now rigged a pulley up for hoisting the bag. I did my second double batch last weekend and it all ran beautifully. In theory I could even do a triple batch if required, but i reckon it would take a while to get boiling and I am not sure I really need that much beer unless I can find two mates with kegging systems to come over.So here she is
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