Anyone using stainless pipe instead of copper?

[Jim]

Be careful! Brewing without any contact with copper in the process has tripped up several brewers. Copper provides for several yeast and reductive processes in brewing and you DO want them. An important thing that copper provides is the removal of sulfide and other sulfurous compounds.

If you do go all stainless, be sure to include a short length of copper tubing in your boil kettle to infuse some copper into the wort. Your beer will be better for it.

Very interesting.

I work in a small microbrewery and to my knowledge it is all stainless.

I use antiformin and caustak to recirc the system so i doubt theres any hidden copper. And as of yet (touch wood)ive not had any issues with the beers brewed.

One of my reasons for going all stainless at home too

Perhaps it naturally occurs in your water supply?

[Cazamodo]

Could do. Ill fish out our water report. We do have very hard water here. Scales our hlt terribly.