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Other than using hot water or an immersion heater has anybody come up with a way of adjusting temps in an insulated mash tun.
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What I have been cooking up in my head is a paddle that is filled with water and is heated with a water heater element. This is then controlled by a thermostat that regulates the power to the Element (See attached Picture). The issues are this:beernut said:Hi Preston
I have been told by good authority that you can get some burning and caramelisation from an immersion heater, however I have been thinking of steam tapped off an old pressure cooker and introduced through a manifold behind the tap on the mash tun into the liquid area of the tun under the filter so it would rise up through the grain bed into the wort, thus raising the temp to the desired level. Any thoughts on that. That is a big temperture drop in your cooler as I only experience around a 1-2C drop over sixty minutes in mine which is a 37L rubbermaid cooler although you might be in the fahrenheit scale
goose on fire said:Mash inside a really big microwave.
Yeah, that's all I got right now :-\
beernut said:Hi M/L
What I was looking for was a better way of lifting temps to requirement instead of adding hot water which I find a little tedious. Heating on demand if you will
Were you thinking of Steam through tubing or directly injected into the Grist? I would be careful of the direct injection because of hot spots. Unless you were constantly stirring the grist while you were injecting the Steam.beernut said:I am going to try out the steam approach and see if it affects the process in anyway.
Decoction involves removing a portion of the wort,
I'm about to start brewing AG myself and thought about an immersion heater also. ( If you want some good ideas on how to make one check out http://www.cedarcreeknetworks.com/heatstick.htm) I wonder if you could eliminate or reduce the problems if you used a 220 volt element but plugged it into 115 volts? That would lower the temperature of the element considerably. Of course it would it would increase the time it would take to heat the mash but it might work. As you've probably guessed I'm kinda a gadget freak. I haven't even started brewing AG but I built a 10 gallon hot liquor tank using a hot water heater element. This way I can mash in the basement or garage and then boil outside.beernut said:Other than using hot water or an immersion heater has anybody come up with a way of adjusting temps in an insulated mash tun.
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