The last 2 batches on my turkey fryer lost about 2/3 of a gal...hr of boil...
Most of the receipes say 1 gal per hour boil loss...
Should I just reduce the preboil by 1/3 gallon.? Thanks
More wort? Maybe I've been doing mine wrong, mine is about 1.5 gallons as well, but as long as the liquid reduces to 5 gallons, is there a need to add more wort?
I may have been doing it wrong...My fryer had no instructions...
It wouldn't work today so I took it apart and blew everything out...
I got it working...I may have not been letting enough air in...
It sounds more like a blowtorch now...Thanks for the replys!
Yep, mine sounds like a blowtorch when I turn it up pretty high. I don't tend to keep it there the whole time during the boil though. I average somewhere between 1.25 and 1.5 gal/hr. loss. I think it also has something to do with the diameter of your pot.
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Well, yeah slinn, but I hadn't been collecting enough so that I'd get 5 gallons. I've gotten 4, 4.5 and 3.75 (not enough sparge water) my past three brews (though I topped up the last to 5; I'm tired of 'extra special' beers )
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by the way I have seen a variability with this - on humid to rainy days I don't boil much off at all! 1/4 gallon. Closer to a gallon on a standard day.
Not boiling down a gal/hr...
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