17 Oct
2004
17 Oct
'04
1:04 a.m.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:14:35 -0500 , Thomas Eibner writes:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:07:54PM -0500, Chris
Mikkelson wrote:
> [snip] 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?
[snip]
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.
My garage is kind of far away from the house, water,
electricity... all the good stuff.
I did finally manage to get the sucker to boil, 4
hours 20 minutes after finishing the sparge. It
took some more fiddling with the flame to get a good
high-BTU stable afterburner-ish flame going, but
that got the boil going within an hour.
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