[genne]

can copper pipe be used in a brew system?

[Hokerer]

Sure, copper's fine for most everything prior to fermentation.  As your beer ferments, the ph drops too low for copper.

[gordonstrong]

All my brewing vessels have copper pipe in them.  My false bottoms are copper too.

They look very nice after the boil.  Well, after I rinse the hops and break off them...

Copper: Hot side OK, cold side not so much.

[Mikey]

Doesn't copper add some nutrients that helps fermentation? However, the wort should be exposed to it before fermentation starts.

[bluesman]

Alot of breweries use copper kettles like this one.

Capital Brewery.

[oscarvan]

My dad the chemist says that copper helps to bind the sulfites.....but I don't know were they would all end up.

[lonnie mac]

My dad the chemist says that copper helps to bind the sulfites.....but I don't know were they would all end up.

Well, their bound! 

I have little copper in my brewery. Maybe it's superstition, but I have a copper rod that I throw into every single boil to this day.

Yeast food...

[genne]

Thanks everyone for the help!