Catering Urn for hot liquor tank and boil kettle

[mr_nice]

Hi

I am looking at building a brewtree style setup but trying to avoid all the butane bottles and gas feeds. I was wondering what your thoughts were on whether I could use a could of catering urn (like a Burco 27ltr Water Boiler with thermostatic control) for the hot liquor tank and the boil kettle, are there disadvantages

I would appreciate any inmformation

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[Aleman]

I always recommend these Buffalo 40L water Boilers as HLT and Boiler for 5 gallons (and a bit more). . . . More capacity than a Burco and considerably cheaper as well.

 

[mr_nice]

That's brilliant advice thank you.

Just to confirm though, do you agree with my assessment that the use of a electric thermostatically controlled boiler will give me good flexibility (i.e temperature control) without the hastle of using gas and that I could use this method for both the hot liquor tank and the other as a boil kettle (buy two of these boilers).

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[Aleman]

Absolutely.

Although the thermostats are On or off . . .so you either have a full boil or a simmer , , ,there is no way to control the vigour of the boil . . . but That can be done using a Phase Angle Controller . . . and is only really required on the boiler . . . the Thermostat on the HLT is more than adequate to do the job