Hi there,
My home-made bucket boiler took a turn for the worst at the weekend. The hot sockets had evidently melted a little during my previous brew unnoticed and one would no longer work and I obviously had reservations about running the whole brew on the other one alone as it was on its last legs. I managed to get 17l of stout into the FV but missed my mash temp and had to add boiling water to bring it up and also missed my OG. Had to boil on one element as well so it was not rigorous which didnt help. I *don't* think that any of the bucket or sockets melted into the wort though, so it should be drinkable.... :whistle:
So, I have a choice - get new elements, plugs and a bucket and build a new boiler (works out about 1500CZK or �ã50) or stump up for the Klarstein or similar (around 4500CZK here which is about �ã150).
https://www.klarstein.co.uk/Home-ap...Beer-Homebrew-Kit-2585W30L-Double-walled.html
Looking at the Kalrstein I don't get how you sparge though? Without a second boiler I would still have to mash in my cooler rather than the Klarstein so that it would free to heat the sparge water? But most of the discussion of this one is about mashing in it.
Or is this for a different method? Right now I heat the water in my bucket, mash in my cooler box mash tun whilst gettign sparge water heated in the bucket, sparge into my FV and then pour the wort back into the (by now empty) boiler bucket, then boil and transfer back to the FV.
Any thoughts?
Cheers!
My home-made bucket boiler took a turn for the worst at the weekend. The hot sockets had evidently melted a little during my previous brew unnoticed and one would no longer work and I obviously had reservations about running the whole brew on the other one alone as it was on its last legs. I managed to get 17l of stout into the FV but missed my mash temp and had to add boiling water to bring it up and also missed my OG. Had to boil on one element as well so it was not rigorous which didnt help. I *don't* think that any of the bucket or sockets melted into the wort though, so it should be drinkable.... :whistle:
So, I have a choice - get new elements, plugs and a bucket and build a new boiler (works out about 1500CZK or �ã50) or stump up for the Klarstein or similar (around 4500CZK here which is about �ã150).
https://www.klarstein.co.uk/Home-ap...Beer-Homebrew-Kit-2585W30L-Double-walled.html
Looking at the Kalrstein I don't get how you sparge though? Without a second boiler I would still have to mash in my cooler rather than the Klarstein so that it would free to heat the sparge water? But most of the discussion of this one is about mashing in it.
Or is this for a different method? Right now I heat the water in my bucket, mash in my cooler box mash tun whilst gettign sparge water heated in the bucket, sparge into my FV and then pour the wort back into the (by now empty) boiler bucket, then boil and transfer back to the FV.
Any thoughts?
Cheers!
