23rd June 2015
We needed to perform a test boil with the newly acquired boiler to find out the general timings of the boiler and test that it can actually perform the task we needed it to.
Image from Brupacks website
Our intention is to mash, sparge and boil in this boiler which will make it an excellent addition to the office brewing setup.
The timings collected from the test run were as follows:
- 10:05 filling started
- 10:13 filling complete, boil started
- 11:24 close enough to full boil, cooling started
- 12:06 cooling complete
That gives us approximately 1.5 hours to boil, 0.5 hours to cool which is quite a managable figure for a 5 gallon brew.
The cooling setup uses a copper immersion wort chiller
We found the siphon action between two brew buckets, refilling the cold supply and emptying the hot worked very nicely.
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