After years of brewing in a electric keggle, I'm moving up to an actual electric kettle and am looking for others experiences. Generally done 10 gallon batches but on higher gravity beers or when I've pushed volume up to 13-14 gallons, obviously gets a bit tight on the boilovers. I'm also looking to do 15 gallon batches so the time to move up has arrived.
I run a 50A eBrewSupply panel, am looking for a whirlpool port, and something with either etched gallon marks or an integrated site glass. Integrated temperature isn't really required as I only am checking that on knock out and can read those temperatures at by pump if need be.
The SSBrewtech 20 gallon eKettle has gotten my eye - but their website states that the kettle is only compatible with their controllers on account of the integrated PT100 temp probe. Anyone have one and know if that only affects the temperature probe readout - will the element itself be able to be run off my panel? Anyone know if you can either splice the 3.5mm connection into an XLR connector or run an adapter and make the temperature probe work? If the only issue with that kettle is that the temperature probe won't work, that's not a deal breaker.
The Spike Brewing Tank is $$ but looks like an amazing piece of hardware. Anyone have any first hand experiences? Their OG looks like quite a nice kettle as well.
Any others I'm missing but should be considering?
I'm also eyeballing the steam condensing lid from Spike - anyone have one and have feedback on how it works with various kettles?
Current setup:
I run a 50A eBrewSupply panel, am looking for a whirlpool port, and something with either etched gallon marks or an integrated site glass. Integrated temperature isn't really required as I only am checking that on knock out and can read those temperatures at by pump if need be.
The SSBrewtech 20 gallon eKettle has gotten my eye - but their website states that the kettle is only compatible with their controllers on account of the integrated PT100 temp probe. Anyone have one and know if that only affects the temperature probe readout - will the element itself be able to be run off my panel? Anyone know if you can either splice the 3.5mm connection into an XLR connector or run an adapter and make the temperature probe work? If the only issue with that kettle is that the temperature probe won't work, that's not a deal breaker.
The Spike Brewing Tank is $$ but looks like an amazing piece of hardware. Anyone have any first hand experiences? Their OG looks like quite a nice kettle as well.
Any others I'm missing but should be considering?
I'm also eyeballing the steam condensing lid from Spike - anyone have one and have feedback on how it works with various kettles?
Current setup: