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i can help you with this. you don't give a lot of information, so i'll have to make some generic assumptions. but in general, yes it might boil, but it will take while. it also means you get a short thermodynamics lesson too. ;-) if you want to take a water heating element and add it to your...

i've done a little more reading on biab. its a lot like what i did before i made the jump to all grain, as i steeped specialty grains in my extract on the stove. i see a way to be even more minimalistic. instead of racking to a fermentation bucket after chilling, just pitch into your brew...

ah, just read the e-biab thread. definitely a space saver, may save me a few bucks too.... may have to stay with 5g batches. has anyone done this with 10g batches? how big a kettle do you need for that?

i've never heard of BIAB e-kettle. i'll have to look into that.

you tell her. i have 3 words that sum up the situation. 1. irish 2. redhead 3. menopause run, fast, don't leave any tracks, moving water is your friend.....

maybe. i'm not looking forward to winter brewing then. we get some serious snow here. i think i'll see what i can do with my space.

bad news update :( due to a mis-understanding with the boss (wifey), i do not get 1/4 of the basement, i get 1/6th of the basement for my brew space (~175 ft^2). i may not even have room for the space saving 10g system i was planning. aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhh. i...

the shape of my brew space limits my configuration options. i plan on having my hlt directly above my m/lt, with the movable bk mounted to the same mast on the side. i could still use a pump, to transfer to my fermenter, but i have concerns about hot-side aeration. maybe i could put the pump...

thanks again. i'm really just posting my thought process (or lack thereof) as its happening. you should see what i usually eat ;-) i'm thinking that the minerals will change my water chemistry, leading to beer problems, i already have difficulty with lighter beers (pils etc) due to my very...

ha! i hadn't thought of using my hot water heater as an hlt. does anyone know if i can put a filter on that? my hot water tanks collect sludge over time, and often sound like they're percolating coffee. i'm not sure i want to use that water without filtering it first.

cool good advice. i wasn't planning on herms. i've had a few crazy ideas, but i've scaled them back a bit. for my m/l t, my plan is to give it a good thick layer of insulation, mount a sparge nozzle to the lid, and call it good. though maybe i'll get a really big (80-100 qt) hlt, and 60 qt...

what size kettles are you using? i've got a line on some 60qt for cheap cheap (local army surplus store). just guessing about your set-up, it looks like insulation would help your boil times quite a bit (not thinking about electricity cost, just thinking about how long the brew day is)...

oh, i've got a keg of stout, and a keg of dunkel. with 6 gal of english brown in secondary. beer flows freely at warthog brewing co.

now there's an idea!:mug: i've been eying an obsolete plc, rack and some i/o modules for a while. if i can score those.....

thanks wilser. i'm a pretty busy guy, part of my motivation behind building an electric brewery, is to speed up my brew day (and get a better boil - i'm an electric turkey fryer/stove top all grain, armstrong brewing system, brewer). my brew day right now starts at about 8a and finishes up...

thanks man. i've been busy (2 kids since then), lots of brewing too.

nah! i'm waaaaaay too a.r. for that :rockin:

honestly, i was just trying to save you the effort. i figured the number based on nominal would be close enough, and all i would need then is the voltage, to calculate the real efficiency. knowing that you had a long run of xx awg tells me the volts are lower than 240, therefore the watts are...

i'm assuming i can get figure out the element resistance from its nominal wattage. v^2/w=r so at 240v^2/5500=10.47 ohm or am i missing something here?

cool! thanks again. i'm an engineer (not an ee), so i love numbers :), please check that voltage, i can work that into my calcs. my basement is about 65f year round. so those numbers should jive pretty well.