An entire propane tank on a single brew?

[Morrey]

My Tractor Supply is where I fill.

 

[brewcat]

I weighed my tank throughout a few brew days. It seems I average about 4 pounds per brewday. Heating strike water, sparge water and boil. Now I know if the tank will make it through a brewday or not. Good to know since I also use it for grilling.

 

[IslandLizard]

FYI

A truly full "20# propane tank" contains 4.6 gallons (20#) of propane.
This is the 80% fill level, the maximum allowed.
The 20% headspace is needed for expansion, which all those size tanks provide for, as well as an OPD (Overfill Protection Device).

The Blue Rhinos (and the like) prefilled exchange tanks are typically only filled to 75% of that maximum, so you'll get only 15# of propane.

 

[bigplunkett]

I get 2 to 3 off my ****y turkey burner and thats with 8 to 10 gal batches if its ine ot tge stiker gauges i tgink they base it on temp.unless u have a leak but u would smell that .

 

[kh54s10]

FYI

A truly full "20# propane tank" contains 4.6 gallons (20#) of propane.
This is the 80% fill level, the maximum allowed.
The 20% headspace is needed for expansion, which all those size tanks provide for, as well as an OPD (Overfill Protection Device).

The Blue Rhinos (and the like) prefilled exchange tanks are typically only filled to 75% of that maximum, so you'll get only 15# of propane.

This is good to know. My hardware store puts the tank on a scale but fills to 5.0 gallons. I always wondered how full that really was. I guess it is really full.

 

[IslandLizard]

This is good to know. My hardware store puts the tank on a scale but fills to 5.0 gallons. I always wondered how full that really was. I guess it is really full.

Awesome! I guess 10% more or less from the targeted fill level is a workable margin and still be considered safe. 10% more means at least 10% fewer trips for refills. I wouldn't put it in the sun, or store in a hot car while shopping at your supermarket or worse, LHBS or beer store...

I should check with one of my 3 ACE stores and see if they fill propane. They are all in strip malls though, which puts restrictions on use.

I know the one hardware store that has a U-Haul franchise fills propane, but their gallon price was relatively high at the time. They're great and very friendly people there, though.

 

[IslandLizard]

FYI

A truly full "20# propane tank" contains 4.6 gallons (20#) of propane.
This is the 80% fill level, the maximum allowed.
The 20% headspace is needed for expansion, which all those size tanks provide for, as well as an OPD (Overfill Protection Device).

The Blue Rhinos (and the like) prefilled exchange tanks are typically only filled to 75% of that maximum, so you'll get only 15# of propane.

I got a lot of this information from this site. Not sure how accurate it is, but the numbers sounds familiar from what I remember reading many places elsewhere.