![]() ![]() I prefer the ring burners to the jet style. ![]() There are several good burners on the market for less than $100. They must be used in a very well-ventilated area. Propane burners generate a lot of heat and toxic exhaust gases, such as carbon monoxide. Considering the amount of liquid that must be heated to high temperature during a typical brewing session, you can save a lot of time by investing in a propane burner (or two). That same volume can be brought to a boil in less than 30 minutes by a 180,000-Btu propane burner. If a kettle is placed across two 9,000-Btu stove burners, it will take them more than 90 minutes just to bring 15 gallons of liquid to a boil. You also have a few options that can decrease the overall time it takes for the beer to get to your glass.īurner upgrades: Heating liquids is a major time consumer in most home breweries. A brew day can be only so short, of course, but time savings can be realized. The next improvement most all-grain brewers wish to implement is decreasing the amount of time and effort spent in the brewhouse. A cylindroconical fermenter makes yeast harvesting easy and allows the beer to be fermented and aged in the same vessel. The costly alternative is a small cylindroconical fermenter. The inexpensive option is to buy more carboys or buckets as you need them. You will need more fermentation capacity for all that extra wort. If you want to brew 10 gallons or more, expanding the size of your current “hot side” brewing vessels is the only option. A typical five-gallon (19-L) system can turn out as much as eight gallons of wort at S.G. You will need to adjust your hop rates because of the high gravity boil. You can do this by brewing the highest gravity wort that you can with your current vessels and diluting the wort to the gravity you desire at pitching time. The first step most home brewers want to take is to increase their brew length (batch size). Some of them are related to others, so that achieving one goal will move you in the direction of another. You need not try to attain all of these goals at once. ![]() How can these goals be reached? Some require nothing more than increasing the size of your brewing vessels. You may consider adding to your basic brewhouse for four basic reasons: Some people, however, find that they need to take brewing further than they ever thought they would. The fact is you don’t need any more stuff than the last article described to brew excellent beer at home. If you assembled a brewery using the previous article in this series as a guide, you may be wondering why you need any more equipment. Just in time to add to your Christmas wish list, this article discusses the reasons why you might want to upgrade your equipment and some of the options for doing so. In the last issue we showed you how simple it can be to assemble an all-grain brewery. « Back to Articles Souping up Your Home Brewing Setup ![]()
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