Advice on kettles/burners?

[sentfromspain]

I'm looking to starting up a nanobrewery in Spain in the next two years, and am interested in a Blichmann Engineering 55 gallon Boilermaker as my main kettle.

Now for this system I would need a standing burner, and I have only ever used electric kettles. Blichmann says that for my purposes, I would need to replace the US regulators with ones that I could get locally...

Frankly, that simple sentence is greek to me. Can somebody point me in the right direction of understanding burners and regulators, regulator replacement and the like?

 

[Docgineer]

It's all about pressure. You need to know the supply pressure (and type) of your gas out of the regulator. From there you need to look at a gas orifice table and get a rough idea for the oriface size you need for your BTU's at your pressure. For example, I use low pressure propane at 11" WC and have my orifaces drilled out to 0.068" if I recall correctly. This yields a theoretical BTU output of 100k on my BG-14's. I suggest you start a little below your target diameter and drill up progressively with trial and error until you get a moderately sized blue flame. You're going to need a metric table but that's the process.