16 Oct
2004
16 Oct
'04
9:13 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:07:54PM -0500, Chris Mikkelson wrote:
I just started brewing outdoors earlier this summer,
so today is my coldest outdoor brewday so far. It's
also the first problematic brewday -- I've been
pumping heat into 12 gallons of wort (in a converted
sankey) for over two hours, and it's barely at 190
up from 150 at the end of the sparge. Is this out of
line for a windy 40-ish day, or am I doing something
grossly wrong?
I'd hate to have to move back into the warm indoors,
and be stuck with 5 gallon batches this winter :-(
I'll need to work on some windscreening, for sure --
the lawn chairs and buckets I'm using now don't cut
it. Will I need to look into insulating the Sankey?
I brew in the garage, today we closed the door because of
the cold. But even my superb 35K btu burner will get 12
gallons to a boil outside on an icecold day.