185,000 BTUs

[Hopper77]

Anyone have this? 185,000 freakin BTU's! I just paid $37 for it on amazon. I have amazon prime so I get the free two day shipping.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002913MI/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[JRems]

It will get water hot, but I have heard that model burns though gas faster than other models. You also can't fit a keggle on it.

 

[Fordzilla]

Wow that seems like a great deal for such high output. I am in the market for a new burner so I might have to snag one.

 

[pdxal]

Lotsa BTUs. I have heard complaints about the noise with jet burners and the fact that it is hard to ramp down the output to maintain a boil or simmer, as well as the amount of gas used, but I hope it works for you. Great deal.

 

[VladOfTrub]

It will burn 8-9 pounds of LP an hour at full bore. Throttled down to where the flame doesn't climb the sides of the kettle. The output will be lower.

 

[MaxOut]

It will burn 8-9 pounds of LP an hour at full bore. Throttled down to where the flame doesn't climb the sides of the kettle. The output will be lower.

Propane has around 91,500 btu's per gallon. So 2 gallons an hour at 180000 BTU. At 4.2 pounds per gallon (60 degrees F) your right on. Overkill for anything smaller than 25 gallons.

 

[osagedr]

Overkill for anything smaller than 25 gallons.

Hmmm...I use a 400,000 BTU NG burner with my 20g kettle (10g batches). Doesn't take long to boil...

 

[aogg]

I just bought that same burner from amazon and a 40qt aluminum kettle for ~$40 in the same purchase. I have done 3 all grain batches with it from a 20lb tank, heating mash and sparge water with it. Never open the "throttle" on it more than about 1 turn. It can be loud for sure but for $37 you can't beat it. I find that its better to not use the flame spreader that's on it. Maintains a good boil if you open the valve just until it starts to sound like a jet, a low woosh sound. Almost boiled over my 1.070 Irish stout. Don't stray to far before the hot break. Find a place near by to refill your tanks so you don't over pay for a 2/3 full blue rhino or the like. Uhaul is decent usually.

 

[Hopper77]

After I ordered I was concerned my keggle wouldn't fit on it but unit doesn't I know my HLT will. I bought it mainly for the price in mind and the option to maybe trade it for something with a little less BTU's if need be

Also I don't think it would be too hard to modify it for a keggle. After spending my entire Saturday brewing two different batches both with 90 mon boils I don't mind burning a little more gas as long as it saves me time

 

[Hopper77]

Damn I hate the iPhone spelling.


I get mine filled the same place I get my co2 filled. I discovered a few years ago thy for the price of one exchange tank of propane I could get two tanks filled.

 

[MaxOut]

Hmmm...I use a 400,000 BTU NG burner with my 20g kettle (10g batches). Doesn't take long to boil...

I bet your right!
The burner on my 60 gallon steam boil kettle is only 200K BTU and I can get 50 gallons from mash to boil in less than 15 min. I would be worried about scorching direct firing at 400K BTU that’s an insane amount of heat for a 10 gallon brew. Would make a powerful HLT but I assume you throttle it back for boiling. My 15 gallon keggle system uses the BG-14’s tweaked to 90K BTU and I had to back them back down to the 70K BTU because the boil was to vigorous.

 

[thadius856]

I have a Bayou SQ14 @ 55k BTU and love it. From the gas sounds when I boil, I estimate I get up to boil using 45k BTU and boil using 40k BTU. Gave a great roiling boil on a 13.1 gallon pre-boil volume in a keggle. You sure you need 185k BTU?

Was thinking about getting a larger outdoor burner, but not for beer: for a wok!

 

[Jbird]

I just looked it up and that's one bad boy. I would love to get it but I don't want to have to use that much gas. Does I come with a regulator? I didn't see one with it.

 

[osagedr]

I bet your right!
The burner on my 60 gallon steam boil kettle is only 200K BTU and I can get 50 gallons from mash to boil in less than 15 min. I would be worried about scorching direct firing at 400K BTU that’s an insane amount of heat for a 10 gallon brew. Would make a powerful HLT but I assume you throttle it back for boiling. My 15 gallon keggle system uses the BG-14’s tweaked to 90K BTU and I had to back them back down to the 70K BTU because the boil was to vigorous.

Yeah we watch the throttle pretty carefully and for a typical boil it's just idling along. No scorching issues so far. We'll move up to a bigger kettle for one-barrel batches hopefully before long and take advantage of the extra power.

 

[nachotime]

at first read that as IBUs... that would be a hoppy beer...

 

[454k30]

I have that same burner. The frame is all steel so if you need to modify it to fit other things you can do so easily. Be careful not to make it too top heavy if you do go welding and bolting things on though. I also use this thing to fry turkeys so the extra BTU's are nice when heating 3 gallons of oil to 375*F.

 

[Hopper77]

I have that same burner. The frame is all steel so if you need to modify it to fit other things you can do so easily. Be careful not to make it too top heavy if you do go welding and bolting things on though. I also use this thing to fry turkeys so the extra BTU's are nice when heating 3 gallons of oil to 375*F.

Awesome. Looks like everything I need will be here by Friday. Can't wait to use it

 

[Jbird]

at first read that as IBUs... that would be a hoppy beer...

Yea that's easy to do. I'd like to try that beer.

 

[Jbird]

I have that same burner. The frame is all steel so if you need to modify it to fit other things you can do so easily. Be careful not to make it too top heavy if you do go welding and bolting things on though. I also use this thing to fry turkeys so the extra BTU's are nice when heating 3 gallons of oil to 375*F.

I want to ask why you would want to modify the stand? What would you add? Maybe some pics would help me see it better.

 

[Fordzilla]

I want to ask why you would want to modify the stand? What would you add? Maybe some pics would help me see it better.

I don't have this same stand, but I modified mine with some pieces of steel with two 90 degree bends in them for added stability. My stand was not designed for a pot as big as mine.

Not the best picture, but it illustrates what I did to mine.

 

[Jbird]

I don't have this same stand, but I modified mine with some pieces of steel with two 90 degree bends in them for added stability. My stand was not designed for a pot as big as mine.

Not the best picture, but it illustrates what I did to mine.

Oh well that's pretty nice.

 

[VladOfTrub]

"The burner on my 60 gallon steam boil kettle is only 200K BTU and I can get 50 gallons from mash to boil in less than 15 min."

On planet earth at sea level. It takes 960 BTU/Hr per pound to take water from 212 deg F to 212 deg F boiling (change of state). 50 gall. weighs around 415 pounds. To bring that weight of water to a boil in one hour would take almost 400K BTU. The ducks don't line up for 15 minutes. I didn't figure in the BTU/Hr for the TD from mash temp to 212 F. That number would be, BTU/Hr = weight X TD. It takes a 50 HP boiler to boil 50 G of wort in a steam kettle in 15 minutes. Regardless, of whether the kettle is direct fired or remote. A 200 K steam boiler is about 6 HP. You need not verify my numbers on how much LP will be burned with a burner rated at 185K, or convert them to gallons, or tell me that I was close. But, thank you anyway. I used pounds because a home brewer knows that a tank is 20 pounds and really has no reason to know the volume. A pound of LP depending on purity is 21K-25K BTU/Hr pound.

 

[454k30]

I want to ask why you would want to modify the stand? What would you add? Maybe some pics would help me see it better.

We had a larger than normal pot on this thing once (20 Gal), for a crab boil. The pot was hard to keep balanced once it was filled with all of the sea's bounty. A little time with an arc welder and some angle iron resulted in a much more stable, and safer, burner/boiler setup. I don't have any pics on hand, sorry. I was mostly remarking about how you can adapt these things to work with any brew/boil/fryer setup with a little work.

 

[MaxOut]

"The burner on my 60 gallon steam boil kettle is only 200K BTU and I can get 50 gallons from mash to boil in less than 15 min."

On planet earth at sea level. It takes 960 BTU/Hr per pound to take water from 212 deg F to 212 deg F boiling (change of state). 50 gall. weighs around 415 pounds. To bring that weight of water to a boil in one hour would take almost 400K BTU. The ducks don't line up for 15 minutes. I didn't figure in the BTU/Hr for the TD from mash temp to 212 F. That number would be, BTU/Hr = weight X TD. It takes a 50 HP boiler to boil 50 G of wort in a steam kettle in 15 minutes. Regardless, of whether the kettle is direct fired or remote. A 200 K steam boiler is about 6 HP. You need not verify my numbers on how much LP will be burned with a burner rated at 185K, or convert them to gallons, or tell me that I was close. But, thank you anyway. I used pounds because a home brewer knows that a tank is 20 pounds and really has no reason to know the volume. A pound of LP depending on purity is 21K-25K BTU/Hr pound.

I was only converting so people could consider cost of operating. In the US we generally purchase propane by the "gallon" not the pound and I thought it would be helpful for some to have it converted to gallons. The thread is about purchasing a 185k btu burner and the cost to operate it may be useful to the potential purchaser. With all due respect your reasoning above is inconsistent, lacking important variables and not applied properly. But thank you anyway.

 

[woknblues]

I have the SP1. A great value. Sure, it uses a lot of propane at full throttle and roars a bit, but the only time I use anywhere near full throttle is for the first 10 minutes for strike water, then another 10 minutes to reach boil (14 gallons for my last BIAB batch). Once you are at boil, you can crank it right down to a comparative "whisper". I don't really see all the fuss about other expensive burners, I doubt if the water knows the difference.

 

[Hopper77]

I don't see the fuss about using more gas. Stepping up to 10 gallon batches will use more gas no matter what. I would imagine going slow or going fast it will all take the same amount of gas to get to a boil. Using this burner will save time. I guess it all just comes down to how often a person buys gas and wether or not thy understand it is a necessity to brewing with a burner. My time to me is worth alot on the weekends. The faster I brew the more time I have with my kids

 

[Varmintman]

OK I am missing something here I guess. Looks to me like it is a weed burner turned upright. Any reason a guy could not put a 20 psi regulator or even get rid of the regulator on a banjo burner and have it work about the same.

Reason I ask is because my weed burner does not have any jets or regulator

 

[Hopper77]

I'll post a review of mine this weekend after I use it

 

[woknblues]

OK I am missing something here I guess. Looks to me like it is a weed burner turned upright. Any reason a guy could not put a 20 psi regulator or even get rid of the regulator on a banjo burner and have it work about the same.

Reason I ask is because my weed burner does not have any jets or regulator

You are not far off... It has a little swivel plate tat you can spread out the flame, but I don't use that ever. I suspect the regulator is of a higher pressure as compared say to the type on a grill for example. I am likely wrong here...

 

[sloose]

The bayou classic sq14 is only $44 on amazon prime, it's well suited to homebrew, will hold a keggle, and it maintains a perfect boil on low in my blichmann 10gal. Way more efficient than that jet burner IMO.