I should try doing hot tap next time I do this. Trying it with a 1500 heat stick as my main heat source. I'm looking to upgrade to a 5500w heatstick for my 10 gallon pot, but it heated nicely with the 1500 watt.
Holy smokes. I have a 1500w immersion heater that I tried using with my 5 gallon pot and it took over an hour to boil. It's just trying to speed up brew days. Before I upgraded pots, i was splitting my boils between a 5G and 3G pot to end up with about 5.5 in the fermenter. It was a pain in the...
Just upgraded to a 10-g pot and am looking for an adequate heat stick to supplement this for full boils. Any advice, links, or folks trying to sell one are welcome.
Pretty easy. I'll store some excess wort from the mash tun in a jar and just toss in yeast / shake the day before i start. Probably better techniques out there, but it works for me without any issues.