Chia
Well-Known Member
i am sure this has been looked at before, but i am changing my brew system. I am thinking of going single tear, and thought i might make the HLT electric. my garage has 220, but it is an old 220. i put an inline hot water heater and it blows the breaker, so i know i have to have the electric checked out. I figure i will use my burner for now for boil, (i dont know enough enough about electric to do the boil kettle yet) My big question is what and how many elements do i need to get? i have one HLT that is 15.5 gallon, if i make 10 gallon batches, can i get my sparge water hot enough during the mash? is it more i like the idea of electric because it will cut down on runs to buy propane, but dont know that much about it. if you can point me to any good threads that would be great. Oh, and i was thinking of having a friend of mine set it up with a timer and temp controller so that it will be ready to go when i get out to the garage. Thanks!