SergeMarx
Well-Known Member
I'm looking at following in the foot-steps of those heady biab pioneers who one day looked upon the hot water urn serving them up a hot coffee and thought... beer.
Having read through most of the forum threads on the topic I've become aware that although the usual Crown or Birko work fine, many adjustments and tweaking is done along the way to get optimum performance. Of course, that's much of the fun for many of us, myself included, but it got me wondering what an urn designed specifically for the task might look like.
For a start, a higher capacity - say 50L, to allow bigger beers
How about double walled with a high quality insulation packed in there. Or triple walled, with an inbuilt copper wort cooling tube on the inside cavity.
Of course, standard fitted with a ball valve tap.
High power exposed element for quick boil and a very fine mesh insert basket with legs to keep it off the element for holding the grains. A smaller dedicated fine mesh hop basket which locks in place somewhere during the boil.
In the main basket, a built in mash paddle which is cranked from above, through the (insulated of course) lid
Large and accurate temperature gauge. Programmable mash scheduling via bluetooth link to my smartphone (hooray!)
<$400 price tag
What else should it have?
Having read through most of the forum threads on the topic I've become aware that although the usual Crown or Birko work fine, many adjustments and tweaking is done along the way to get optimum performance. Of course, that's much of the fun for many of us, myself included, but it got me wondering what an urn designed specifically for the task might look like.
For a start, a higher capacity - say 50L, to allow bigger beers
How about double walled with a high quality insulation packed in there. Or triple walled, with an inbuilt copper wort cooling tube on the inside cavity.
Of course, standard fitted with a ball valve tap.
High power exposed element for quick boil and a very fine mesh insert basket with legs to keep it off the element for holding the grains. A smaller dedicated fine mesh hop basket which locks in place somewhere during the boil.
In the main basket, a built in mash paddle which is cranked from above, through the (insulated of course) lid
Large and accurate temperature gauge. Programmable mash scheduling via bluetooth link to my smartphone (hooray!)
<$400 price tag
What else should it have?
