RobboMC
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Ok, so I'm doing lots of grain steeping, boiling extract and hops and making great beer.
What's stopping me from going forward is lack of big equipment, in particular heating and cooling stuff.
I only have an electric cooktop, so how much volume can I boil with just a 10A electric element.
I can add lots of boiling water from the jug, but I'll still need to get the extract boil from say 70 deg C up to the boil.
Secondly, what the recommended boil volume assuming I can't do a full 25 litre boil?
Is 10-12 litres enough? ( means a 15 litre pot I know )
Thirdly, once I've successfully boiled 10 litres for the proper time, what's the best way to cool it without an expensive chiller?
If I build something, am I better off building an immersion chiller, or a cooling tube to run the wort through
on it's way to the fermenter. I know not to pour hot wort, but can I rack it without cooling and cool it in the fermenter?
What temperature will food grade plastic tube withstand? It seems to wilt in the boiling water I use to clean it.
I know so many questions, as Rumsfeld said, " you don't know you don't know something until you know you don't know it" or something similar.
What's stopping me from going forward is lack of big equipment, in particular heating and cooling stuff.
I only have an electric cooktop, so how much volume can I boil with just a 10A electric element.
I can add lots of boiling water from the jug, but I'll still need to get the extract boil from say 70 deg C up to the boil.
Secondly, what the recommended boil volume assuming I can't do a full 25 litre boil?
Is 10-12 litres enough? ( means a 15 litre pot I know )
Thirdly, once I've successfully boiled 10 litres for the proper time, what's the best way to cool it without an expensive chiller?
If I build something, am I better off building an immersion chiller, or a cooling tube to run the wort through
on it's way to the fermenter. I know not to pour hot wort, but can I rack it without cooling and cool it in the fermenter?
What temperature will food grade plastic tube withstand? It seems to wilt in the boiling water I use to clean it.
I know so many questions, as Rumsfeld said, " you don't know you don't know something until you know you don't know it" or something similar.