Brew Day Upgrade - Brew Pot & Hop Blocker

I have been attempting to slowly grow my equipment from the basic kit to a professional home brewer one step at a time. My last upgrade included a Mash Lauter Tun for my first all grain batch, and now it is time to upgrade to a 20 gallon Blichmann Engineering Boilermaker brew pot with a hop blocker. The brew pot has a built in ball valve drain, thermometer and volume level guage. The pot took a little assembly, but it only took 2 wrenches and about 5 minutes to add the thermometer. I still need to get an adapter for the drain to fit tubing, but that will just take a $3 trip to lowes.

The hop blocker fits inside the drain, and will hopefully stop the majority of the hops from the boil from getting into the primary fermenter. I will be brewing a batch of maroon monsoon soon, and I will let y'all know how well it works.