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great to see another person in akron on here i have not had your beer yet but i am sure i will be making a trip over there to get sum do you do tours of your brewery i would love do one no matter how many i go on its still amazing like a kid on christmas

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would this be a good burner for 20 gallon batches

i have a large patio its proly round 10x30 or so so i have ample room there for brewing and it never really goes below 20 here in the winter so i can brew out there year round

i have no way to wire up 220/240 in my aprtment

ok ok i get the point lol the only reason i was considering the high pressure was because of my engineer friends but i figured it wasn't a good idea thats why i posted on here nothings been built or bought so dont worry guys im in no danger just brainstorming im thinking ill probly go with a...

lol well i am brave and the reason i started the thread was for this very reason i know it should work on paper but i was puting it out there for people who have actually used steam systems before how efficient is a propane burner gonna be when doing a 20 gallon batch propane is very expensive...

oatmeal and other grains would have been used in the cheaper shilling ales because hops are hard to grow in scotland so hops were used in the finer more expensive ales i think you probably right about higher alcohol killing head retention cause the christmas ales i drink that are 7.9 dont keep...

how much propane do you use like a tank a batch or is the system pretty efficient

sorry back in the day comp geek forum habit we never used punctuation on the internet lol

well i was thinking a like 15-20 gallon air compressor tank with 1000 + psi so i think that's around 700 degrees now looking at the fact that the steam is directly injected this makes heating this way extremely efficient and i see no reason why i would not be able to bring 20 gallons to a boil...

well i live in a apartment with a patio which is why i wanted to try and go electric something tells me 3 gas burners is gonna get me in trouble ok so you don't think that injected steam will work for a boil kettle i am planning on high pressure very hot steam the tank will be highly insulated...

ok so i wanna do and automated brewery setup up for 20 gallon batches my initial idea was to mount a hot water heater element into an air compressor tank to make some steam right off the bat i was thinking injecting the steam straight into the mash and bk through a manifold but im wondering now...

according to the brewmaster i talked to that has a degree in brewing from munich where he was born and raised you lose aroma and flavor buy force carbing he recomended waiting till about the last 1 % of fermentation and the kegging and letting the last bit of fermentation to occur a truly free...

would this be able to control the entire brewing process for a steam based system

its going to be heated with steam im still a lil iffy about reaching boil temps in something plastic lined i did see some food grade barrels for around 60 bucs through companys that are ceramic coated inside

im planning on getting 55 gallon drums doing 20 gallon but eventually moving to 40 gallon so honey barrels hmm and the plastic coating will hold up to boil temps ?

I am looking at putting together brew system run entirely off steam just like the pros the obvious choice is steel barrels there are steel and stainless is stainless a necessity or would a regular steel barrel be ok since im not applying a direct heat source all heating will be infused steam im...

cool thanks for the help !

awsome yea i figured as much wouldnt want overly carbed beer this all was brought on by a visit to a micro brewery by my parents the brew master was trained in munich and was talking about loss of flavor and aroma when force carbing with industrial co2 got me thinking