Hi All,
Great community here which inspired me to move off of my stove top extract to all grain electric herms berwery. I'm hoping by end of the year I'll get to the eherms brewery.
My first phase is to get an electric kettle to continue my extract brews and work on my post boil techniques before going to all grain. So on to the Kettle...
I have a 15 gallon BK on order (mostly 5 gallon and occasional 10 gallon batch) from Spike Brewing after reading all the good reviews. My question is with the element port.
The kettle comes with a 1.5" TC ferrule for the element. Since i'm starting out doing extract still, I was thinking it's important to use the ULWD ripple element to avoid scorching...but after doing some research on this forum it sounds like some people have issues using the 1.5" TC for the ripple element, and others don't. I'm trying to figure out if I'll have any clearance issues...I e-mailed Ben from spike and he said the ferrule is about an 1" long, anyone have success with with a ripple element on these? Also if you had success or not, what enclosure did you use/buy/make and how deep/long is your ferrule?
I was hoping to go with BrewHardware.com since they're getting ULWD stainless ripple elements, and they have a decent enclosure for 1.5" TC.
I guess if I have to go with a straight fold back element, anyone have any scorching problems with them? I noticed they're LWD (105 watts/sq inch) and not ULWD (around 50+ watts/sq inch).
Thanks all!
Great community here which inspired me to move off of my stove top extract to all grain electric herms berwery. I'm hoping by end of the year I'll get to the eherms brewery.
My first phase is to get an electric kettle to continue my extract brews and work on my post boil techniques before going to all grain. So on to the Kettle...
I have a 15 gallon BK on order (mostly 5 gallon and occasional 10 gallon batch) from Spike Brewing after reading all the good reviews. My question is with the element port.
The kettle comes with a 1.5" TC ferrule for the element. Since i'm starting out doing extract still, I was thinking it's important to use the ULWD ripple element to avoid scorching...but after doing some research on this forum it sounds like some people have issues using the 1.5" TC for the ripple element, and others don't. I'm trying to figure out if I'll have any clearance issues...I e-mailed Ben from spike and he said the ferrule is about an 1" long, anyone have success with with a ripple element on these? Also if you had success or not, what enclosure did you use/buy/make and how deep/long is your ferrule?
I was hoping to go with BrewHardware.com since they're getting ULWD stainless ripple elements, and they have a decent enclosure for 1.5" TC.
I guess if I have to go with a straight fold back element, anyone have any scorching problems with them? I noticed they're LWD (105 watts/sq inch) and not ULWD (around 50+ watts/sq inch).
Thanks all!