55 Gallon Brew Day - Page 3

**Saccharomyces** · 02-11-2010, 04:20 PM

Awesomeness.

I'm curious about the fermentation chiller and the burner. Takes a lot of BTUs to boil 55 gallons, and a lot of heat transfer to keep it cool during an active ferment...

**DeathBrewer** · 02-11-2010, 08:41 PM

See the burner on the floor to the left in this pic?

Same burner. My buddy gets them from a chinese shop...they are made for woks, but most pots will fit on them. We are using them today for oak barrels beer week event...we mounted them to the sculpture.

The boiling pot is made from a dewar. The outside jacket contains the heat within so there is very little heat lost from the burner. It took less than an hour to get 50 gallons of cold water to a boil on it's first test.

Beer Week:

http://www.sfbeerweek.org/schedule

Quote:

Homebrewing Demonstration with Local Brewmasters
Oak Barrel
1443 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702

Details:
February 11
5:00pm - 9:00pm

Admission: No Charge
Attire: Anything

Description:
Bay Area Mashers homebrew club & Oak Barrel are sponsoring a demo brew by several professional brewers: Rodger Davis (Triple Rock), Christian Kazakoff (Iron Springs), Ron Silberstein (ThirstyBear), Adam Lamoreaux (Linden St.) & more. Oak Barrel's Homer Smith will be BBQing; there will be commercial & homebrewed beer. RSVP to info@oakbarrel.com.

My friend and I will be the ones brewing the beer. You wouldn't believe how tasty Homer's BBQ is.

There will be a new page of photos after the event

**schweaty** · 02-12-2010, 02:41 AM

I would love some more information/pictures on the burners as well. I'm looking to do 1 bbl batches on my next rig.

**DeathBrewer** · 02-13-2010, 04:24 PM

This appears to be a very similar burner, with the same inside piece to produce the flame and the same stand. However, it does not have the same controls/ignition.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Cast-Iron-Wok-LP-Burner-Propane-Stove-100K-BTU-Heat_W0QQitemZ350282020804QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Co mmercial_Ovens_Ranges?hash=item518e6f77c4

This has a similar ignition/control to it, but looks more like a bayou burner inside:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-H202-Cast-Iron-Wok-Burner-Propane-Stove-High-Heat_W0QQitemZ310158963204QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Co mmercial_Ovens_Ranges?hash=item4836ea3204

**bendavanza** · 02-23-2010, 05:35 PM

I have one of those chinese wok burners (the black one in the second pic) and it did not seem to have many BTU's in my tests, that chimney jacket must really help with efficiency.
Great big barrels of beer! that's a cool looking fermenter, too.

**DeathBrewer** · 02-23-2010, 06:09 PM

Are you sure it's the same burner? They make a lot of similar ones, but this baby is the beast that can get the job done.

The jacket certainly helps, tho