My life right now...

[scottyg354]

To windy outside for gas. Oh well more time for beer until it starts to boil!

 

[BrewZer]

Is your stove electric or induction?

 

[scottyg354]

Is your stove electric or induction?

Electric. I broke down and stood outside in the wind with the propane burner...lol. I stood there for about 1 hour and was only at 150 degrees, put it on the propane and it started to boil in 10 minutes.

 

[VikeMan]

Electric. I broke down and stood outside in the wind with the propane burner...lol. I stood there for about 1 hour and was only at 150 degrees, put it on the propane and it started to boil in 10 minutes.

I was about to (incredulously) ask if a (presumably) 5 gallon batch ever reached a boil on the electric stove. My assumption was that it wouldn't.

 

[bkboiler]

Wow, sounds like it woulda been perfect for mashing...
my indoor stove has a burner that would hold my 2.5 gal batch mashes +/- 1° with no insulation...
Now that I brew in the garage I miss that thing!

 

[scottyg354]

My grainfather arrived on saturday anyway so life should be on easy mode for a while. Lol

Hope to possibly do double brews with it. Using it as a mash tun for the first brew and boiling that in my propane kettle while doing a second brew entirely on the grainfather.

 

[bkboiler]

I was thinking the same thing!
I finally got my two vessel rig setup as a quasi-HERMS...where the burner heats the sparge water, which is recirculated thru a chiller coil to hold the mash temp steady in vessel number two.

Well...I was contemplating BIAB in the upper kettle while I full volume mashed in the lower kettle...voila double batch!
May have to get fancy with a bucket tho while I'm sparging...good thing I kept my old induction burner and 4 gallon pot.