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Thanks for the feedback on the Colorado Brewing kettle!

SS Brewtech it is! Thanks fellas.

Insulate, lid on until the boil begins... I'd personally add another element. An 11 gallon SS kettle, is worlds apart from an HDPE bucket in terms of thermal properties.

I'm between the SS Brewtech and the Colorado Brewing Systems kettles. There is the obvious welded vs weldless fittings. I cannot find many reviews or photos of the Colorado kettles. Anyone here willing to share? Anyone with a false bottom? SS Brewtech has some cool features (pickup tubes...

Awesome replies here. It's just underpowered.

Are you totally sure your PID is in manual, 100%? It doesn't make sense that you get a 3.4F per minute rise to 150F, and half that from 150F to boiling. Is it hitting 210ish and just stalling out before a boil?

Once the water is at say 210F, regardless of 4 or 8 gallons, 3,000 watts is much more powerful than 2,000. At that point the energy input is simply to create vapor, and 3kW is much better at it than 2kW. It's easier to create a pound of vapor with 3kW than with 2kW. The liquid volume doesn't...

All things equal, a 2kW element should get you from 80-210F in 40 minutes. Once you get there, things get a little more complicated with the energy required to change phase, from a liquid to a vapor. It requires 1000BTU/lb to convert that boiling temp water, to steam. It requires 4160 BTU to...

If it heats from 80-150 in 20 minutes, that is mathematically what it should do. Meaning, your element is producing the advertised BTUs. Sadly, that heat is being lost too quickly to boil well.

Stir plate, jewelers scale, water salts... the list goes on ;)

Thanks guys! Im expecting a couple 10 gallon kettles, fermenter, temp control kit from SS BrewTech, BCS, SSRs, stainless stand, pumps etc... I hope to be up and running in a few weeks!

Fermenters will be indoors, so temp differential for ales should be small. Im also purchasing the SS Brewtech temp control for the fermenter for temp correction. Next to sanitation, temps are crucial. Id like to have a fermentation chamber (freezer), but I have two motorcycles in the...

New brewer here... looking to learn a little about the process and equipment. Really interested in electric, AG brewing... I hope to place an order for some SS Brewtech Kettles and Fermenters this week! Fizz

2kW will heat at a rate of 3.4F per minute, without losses. Your heating from 80-154 would indicate that it is doing exactly that. That would lead me to beleive that the element, the power source, are not to blame. Its hard to imagine that losses would be either with those numbers provided...