That was a great fermentation vessel that you just drilled holes in to put the grill on.
I was gonna say, do you guys even have fermentation capacity for 1 bbl? Hacking up a $$$ vessel like that seems like a rash decision.
I guess now you won't even need to butcher the pig before smoking it, just toss the whole thing in and fire it up :rockin:
It's been discussed, but we concluded the legs might stick out. While hilarious, not the best conditions for smoking :fro:
I've been researching the possibility of using submersible heating elements and going all electric, but I'm not really sure at what volume that stops being feasible. Anyone have any thoughts?
I've got some electrician friends. I believe their help can be secured in exchange for delicious beer.I would love to see this formula, it would certainly be helpful.
Right now we are planning on heating with electric immersion elements, like the ones you see on many of the e-rigs here. I believe Squam Lakes on the forums here does full 1 barrel batches with only electric heat. However, when attempting something this big, it will require a lot of juice. If you don't absolutely know what you're doing, go direct fire. My brewing partner is an electrician and owns his own company, so he's experienced and safe.
The reason for going electric mainly is due to the ball valves being located on the bottom of each kettle. I dont think they would stand up to being heated directly with flames.
I dunno, many of the commercial ones I've looked at advertise up to 2.something GPM at very high temperatures, though those are all natural gas. The electric ones operate a little slower and don't give as much rise, though I wonder if you could connect two in a series. Like, the first one would be a pre-heater and the second one would give you your final output temperature.I've been looking at the POU water heaters as well, not sure if they would work efficiently on the scale we're talking about. After all, it's just passing water over a bunch of immersion elements anyway, can't we just do that in an electric hlt? Essentially, we're just making a big household hot water heater.
Jonesing for more pictures here! But it just may be me.
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