Reddit reviews Thunder Group 60 Quart Aluminum Stock Pot

You won't outbrew an aluminum pot's life, so long as you take care of it. If you want to do this on the cheap, you do it thusly:

| Part | Cost |
| :-- | --: |
| Thunder Group Stock Pot (60 qt) | $48.35 |
| Weldless kettle kit with 2-piece ball valve | $22.00 |
| Camlock Type F | $3.99 |
| Thermometer | $24.00 |
| Thermometer coupling | $6.50 |
| Amazon Shipping | $12.86 |
| Bargain Fittings Shipping | $5.00 |
| Total | $122.70 |

This assumes you already have a step bit. If you want the 40qt pot, it's $14.95 less than the 60qt.

You can approach scaling in two different ways:

• Vertically scaling is where you increase the capacity of your brew vessels. As noted by others, your vessel should be larger than your target batch size to avoid boiling over and to compensate for wort volume lost from evaporation.
  
• Horizontally scaling is where you increase the inventory of your standard equipment and run multiple batches simultaneously.
  
  It's also possible to combine methodologies. For example, you can vertically scale using 15.5 gallon keg kettles or 60 quart stock pots and horizontally scale by running two batches simultaneously to hit your 25 gallon target.

Not sure what shipping is for those, but I bought this aluminum stock pot on Amazon last year for about $60 shipped. It's awesome, very sturdy, and seems well made.

That said I have no experience with the two you listed, but I hope this helps a little but at least. And BTW aluminum is awesome, much more economical than stainless. I would only go stainless for the "bling" factor.