Boil Kettle Placement in Electric System

[cgreene]

I am in the middle of turning my guest bedroom into an electric brewery and need some advice/feedback on my BK placement before I mount my exhaust hood.

For ventilation I am going to be placing the hood over the BK only but I would like the hood to be centered on the wall for aesthetic purposes. So my question is instead of the typical left to right setup of BK, MT, HLT. I was thinking of just doing MT, BK, HLT so my BK can be centered under my exhaust hood. Besides having to maybe run some longer hoses to reach other kettles/pumps, does anybody see any issues or drawbacks to this setup? I,m thinking the setup is just preference but wanted to throw it out there for some feedback. Thanks!

 

[Sparkncode]

You might loose a bit more heat through longer hoses if you recirculate but it should be consistant enough you can compensate.

 

[cgreene]

You might loose a bit more heat through longer hoses if you recirculate but it should be consistant enough you can compensate.

Yeah that is what I was thinking with having to go a bit longer on some of the hoses. Thank you for your feedback. Cheers

 

[Sparkncode]

The other thing to think about is placment of the ports on the bk and hlt as those are the two with more ports and having them close together could make things a bit tight space wise but could be managed of you choose the port locations carefully.

 

[Elky]

Yeah that is what I was thinking with having to go a bit longer on some of the hoses. Thank you for your feedback. Cheers

If you don't mind the extra cost and setup you could always hard pipe the lines (or the horizontal runs at least) and insulate them. Probably more trouble than it's worth though.