Brupak boiler

[Ally_sives]

Hi all,

I am looking to moving onto AG brewing in the near future and I would like to add to my set up a little with a boiler. I've seen a Brupak electric boiler (2000w) in my local homebrew shop. Anyone know anything about this boiler, is it any good etc etc.

Cheers!

 

[cornyandy]

Not as Such bit I met the owner of brupaks many years ago and found him a thoroughly decent bloke and I have had many quality ingredients and odds and sods from him over the years.

My only question, is the boiler a polypropolene on or a metal enamelled one. I had an enamel one and although it was great I chipped the enamel first time out by dropping the plug into it. Rendering it useless for brewing as the underlying metal tainted the beer. It was a quality product though and the fault was mine. Just be careful if it is metallic. Otherwise my advice would be go for it.

 

[Ally_sives]

Just noticed its Polypropylene enamelled. Not a problem, just need to be careful I suppose. 2000w should be enough for a decent rolling boil though?

 

[cornyandy]

I suspect the enamel is on the base and the body of the boiler is polyprop so I would not worry too much

 

[Ally_sives]

Nice one. Thanks Cornyandy! Got a bit more of an idea now that I did before. Think I'll probably just go for it!

 

[Fil]

imho its a bit tight on volume, when boiling 28-32l of wort down to 23-25l you want at least 5-6cm headroom in the boiler to accommodate the violence of the rolling boil, and not forgetting the initial foam up that can occur as you bring the beer to the boil.

nothing worse than spending a brewday mopping up the spills from a boil, not only is it a waste of valuable proto-beer, but if done in the kitchen its gonna get u banned to the patio for life.. (experience talking hehe),

imho the minimum boiler size for a comfortable brewday when brewing 23-25l batches is 40l

tho you can always boil some in a big stock pot on the cooker too so only put 25l or so in the small brupacks boiler and boil the rest on the cooker adding the 2 together once enough has boilled off but thats also gonna be a pita..