I have a 2bbl direct fire propane brew system from Stout Tanks and Kettles. I am having trouble with with heating and venting. It is taking me almost 2 hours to get 80 gallons of wort to boil (from mash temp).
The heat just doesn't seem to transfer to the liquid as it should. The floor heats up to where the tiles crack if I am not spraying them down with water every 5 minutes.
The kettle has a skirt with a 6" vent opening that I have piped directly (with 6" single wall stainless steel pipe) into the opening of my vent hood. I have a fan running that is loud as hell but I am not sure if it is as powerful as it sounds, (I am not sure what the CFM is).
I am guessing that I just need a bigger fan but I don't want to keep dropping money into this and try and fix through trial and error. Is the answer a more powerful fan? An inline fan? Can the fan be too big and I have a whole new set of problems if the CFM is too much?
Anyone have any ideas about this or had similar problems? Thanks in advance.
The heat just doesn't seem to transfer to the liquid as it should. The floor heats up to where the tiles crack if I am not spraying them down with water every 5 minutes.
The kettle has a skirt with a 6" vent opening that I have piped directly (with 6" single wall stainless steel pipe) into the opening of my vent hood. I have a fan running that is loud as hell but I am not sure if it is as powerful as it sounds, (I am not sure what the CFM is).
I am guessing that I just need a bigger fan but I don't want to keep dropping money into this and try and fix through trial and error. Is the answer a more powerful fan? An inline fan? Can the fan be too big and I have a whole new set of problems if the CFM is too much?
Anyone have any ideas about this or had similar problems? Thanks in advance.
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