Hi,
I'd like to talk to someone with some experience building an electric HLT - preferably from HPDE but I imagine anyone with electric brewing experience can help.
Basically what I want to do is build a 20-30 gallon tank with an electric element. Day before the brew I'd like to filter water into it and then set it to strike temp so when I come back 12-24 hours later I'm ready to go into the mash tun and get brewing so I'm not waiting for water to heat up. This doesn't look like a particularly complicated project. What I don't have experience with is the correct element size and in this particular case - time is not of much concern because I'm probably looking at temps of 120-150 and there is at least 12 hours time for it to heat up. So I'd prefer to keep energy consumption down.
Also curious how well HPDE holds temps - or if it needs to be insulated.
Thanks in advance!
I'd like to talk to someone with some experience building an electric HLT - preferably from HPDE but I imagine anyone with electric brewing experience can help.
Basically what I want to do is build a 20-30 gallon tank with an electric element. Day before the brew I'd like to filter water into it and then set it to strike temp so when I come back 12-24 hours later I'm ready to go into the mash tun and get brewing so I'm not waiting for water to heat up. This doesn't look like a particularly complicated project. What I don't have experience with is the correct element size and in this particular case - time is not of much concern because I'm probably looking at temps of 120-150 and there is at least 12 hours time for it to heat up. So I'd prefer to keep energy consumption down.
Also curious how well HPDE holds temps - or if it needs to be insulated.
Thanks in advance!