I'm looking for some advice as I'm just setting up a 500 litre system.
For heating the boiler I have 2 x 5kw elements plus a 24kw gas burner. When I upgrade to 3 phase soon I will add electric elements to reduce the use of the gas burner. My main concern here is scorching the wort which I've read a lot about and so I have this idea to gently whirlpool the boiler whilst heating to the boil. My theory is that circulating the wort will reduce wort contact time with the electric elements and so reduce scortching the wort.
Does anyone have any experience of this or am I worrying about nothing or barking up the wrong tree.
My other issue is cooling 500 litres of hot wort. My tap water temperature here in SW France is around 24C in summer so cooling with a counter flow or plate chiller direct from the mains water would work quickly in the winter only (10C water temp). So if I cool from a cold water tank how do I calculate how much cold water I need at what temperature to cool the wort quickly & what is my best method? Physics was never my strongest subject at school (a long time ago)!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
For heating the boiler I have 2 x 5kw elements plus a 24kw gas burner. When I upgrade to 3 phase soon I will add electric elements to reduce the use of the gas burner. My main concern here is scorching the wort which I've read a lot about and so I have this idea to gently whirlpool the boiler whilst heating to the boil. My theory is that circulating the wort will reduce wort contact time with the electric elements and so reduce scortching the wort.
Does anyone have any experience of this or am I worrying about nothing or barking up the wrong tree.
My other issue is cooling 500 litres of hot wort. My tap water temperature here in SW France is around 24C in summer so cooling with a counter flow or plate chiller direct from the mains water would work quickly in the winter only (10C water temp). So if I cool from a cold water tank how do I calculate how much cold water I need at what temperature to cool the wort quickly & what is my best method? Physics was never my strongest subject at school (a long time ago)!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.