As winter is here in Western, NY I find myself not wanting to go outside and brew. If it's not snowing, the wind is blowing like crazy. I guess I'm starting to show my age. LOL
I've tossed around the idea of brewing smaller batches indoors on my stove top. I would brew a 3 gallon BIAB batch, so I can keg 2.5 gallons in my smaller keg. I have a 7 gallon aluminum pot (flat bottom) and my stove is a flat top electric stove that is 2 years old. The element that would fit my aluminum pot is 3000W and it's the same diameter of the pot. Without wasting hours and hours of trying to achieve a boil, does anyone know if I would be successful or not? I know my brew day will probably be longer since it would take a while to get about 4 gallons of wort boiling. I'm just curious to know if anyone has any insight to if it would work or not.
If my stove top won't work, then I guess I'll need to keep an eye on the weather more often to squeeze in a brew day out in the garage on the few nice days we will have over the next 4 months. Thanks in advance everyone!
I've tossed around the idea of brewing smaller batches indoors on my stove top. I would brew a 3 gallon BIAB batch, so I can keg 2.5 gallons in my smaller keg. I have a 7 gallon aluminum pot (flat bottom) and my stove is a flat top electric stove that is 2 years old. The element that would fit my aluminum pot is 3000W and it's the same diameter of the pot. Without wasting hours and hours of trying to achieve a boil, does anyone know if I would be successful or not? I know my brew day will probably be longer since it would take a while to get about 4 gallons of wort boiling. I'm just curious to know if anyone has any insight to if it would work or not.
If my stove top won't work, then I guess I'll need to keep an eye on the weather more often to squeeze in a brew day out in the garage on the few nice days we will have over the next 4 months. Thanks in advance everyone!