Electric brewing inside

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Electric brewing inside

JayUnt

2015年3月18日 13:58

It's starting to get cold out there but I still want to brew. I started looking into electric brew kettles (i am still new and only using extracts kits). Most of the stuff I read online is about adding a heatstick to your brew kettle. I no nothing about welding, so that intimidates me.

I found this water bucket heater on Amazon that people in the comments talk about using it to supplement their stove top for boiling wort. Some comments, however, talk about how its hard to clean properly.

Has anyone here used this? and what are your thoughts? It's currently 50% off, so its only $40, which seems like a great deal if it was to work.

Other then using this, do you have suggesting for brewing inside?

Topic bucket-heater electric wort boil homebrew

Category Mac

Nemis L. · Accepted Answer · 2015年3月18日 13:58

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Nemis L. answered at 2015年3月18日 13:58

I brew using a 36 l (10 gallon) stainless steel kettle on a 3.5 kW stand-alone induction top. Even at 80 % effect, the induction top brings 25 l (6.5 gallon) to the boil in less than 30 minutes.

Matthew Moisen · Accepted Answer · 2015年3月18日 02:12

I bought three of these but after multiple attempts learned they shut off at boiling temperatures and are therefore useless for boiling wort. After discovering this, I thought I would use them to speed up the process of bringing 7 gallons of 170*F wort to boiling, but after a few tests discovered that keeping the lid fully on during this period was faster than the 3 bucket heaters.

I'm going to use them only for a future HERMS setup.

Oddly, when I was doing research on these, about half the posts stated these do not shut off at the boil, while the other half did. Given that only one company produces these, I don't understand the discrepancy.

mdma · Accepted Answer · 2013年1月26日 14:50

If you're boiling 5 gallons or less on the stove top, then brewing indoors can be done using your regular kitchen setup, assuming you've got an extractor fan in the kitchen to vent all the water vapor. For partial boils, it worked well, but for full boils, it took a over an hour to bring the mash liquor up to temperature, and even longer to bring the full 5 gallons to boil after sparging. The largest ring on the hob was 2.2kW, so YMMV.

I did this for a few months before building a rig based on www.theelectricbrewery.com.

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