Indoor Brewing

[Liveforliving]

I'm in the process of designing a brew room in my walkout basement. I have the ability to put a commercial hood above the burners and can push large ventilation into the space. Yes, I do have alarms to monitor any dangerous gas.
Our house has a buried propane tank in the front yard that feeds our kitchen stove and fireplace. Yes, you all know where this is about to go, but hold on a second before you start preaching. I am exploring using propane, but will not use any outdoor burner. I'm worried about how poorly it burns off the propane.
My question is, does anyone know of an indoor grade propane burner that will cleanly burn. I imagine I need the BTU to be around 50,000 to be happy, but maybe I'm wrong? The plan would be to fed a gas line to the walk-out basement and construct a very well vented and monitored room. Any suggestion on a proper burner and the amount of BTU I will need/want is greatly appreciated.
I imagine someone is going to also suggest using a heatstick instead of gas. I'll listen to current thoughts on heatsticks, but it doesn't sound like they're fast and that it messes up the wort. If my information is not current, I'll be interested to learn more about it.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

ion is, does anyone know of an indoor grade propane burner that will cleanly burn. I imagine I need the BTU to be around 50,000 to be happy, but maybe I'm wrong? The plan would be to fed a gas line to the walk-out basement and construct a very well vented and monitored room. Any suggestion on a proper burner and the amount of BTU I will need/want is greatly appreciated.

You will likely be looking for and indoor commercial/restaurant burner that can be or already is converted to LP. What size are you boiling?

So I will preach a different tune, why do you think there are no efficient outdoor burners that can match or exceed those in your household stove? Anything produced by the burner other than CO and water vapor (give or take trace elements) is sign of incomplete combustion.

I would also suggest a hybrid approach if you not already there. A redneck eHLT is simply a properly grounded water heater element in a cooler/bucket/kettle, a switch and a GFCI outlet. The only thing that need be propane fired is the kettle and then only if you want to avoid all electronic controls.

 

[Liveforliving]

From what I understand, the way outdoor burners are designed, they don't burn the propane as well. The result of this indoors is that it can "pool" in a basement, then be ignited by a spark. I'm not sure how much of a worry this is in a well vented room, but if i know there isn't going to be a risk of pooling gas, I'll be pretty happy.
Also, if I bring in a burner designed for outdoors, I don't want the insurance company pitching a fit.
I don't think I want to go hybrid, but I have thought about it. For some reason, I feel the need to stick with only gas (or maybe only electricity).

 

[soccerdad]

this looks like it has a 30,000 btu and a 25,000 btu .. runs on LP or NG

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/apw...rner-countertop-range/135GHP2H NAT*LP.html

 

[Onkel_Udo]

From what I understand, the way outdoor burners are designed, they don't burn the propane as well. The result of this indoors is that it can "pool" in a basement, then be ignited by a spark. I'm not sure how much of a worry this is in a well vented room, but if i know there isn't going to be a risk of pooling gas, I'll be pretty happy.
Also, if I bring in a burner designed for outdoors, I don't want the insurance company pitching a fit.
I don't think I want to go hybrid, but I have thought about it. For some reason, I feel the need to stick with only gas (or maybe only electricity).

Water heater burner...it is about the only other thing I can thing of.

 

[Liveforliving]

I ended up calling Gas Companies and a couple brewing companies. Basically, it's Natural Gas or bust. Looking online, electric does appear a good way to go. I'm going to do more research. Thanks for feedback!