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Hey all, is there any reason we couldn't use 1 conical, jacketed, >15 psi rated unitank as a boil kettle, fermenter, and serving tank all in one? Indirect fire for heating during boil directly through the jacket, chilling with tap water through the jacket and then glycol, then ferment and carbonate in the same vessel and even serve from the same vessel.
Some benefits are: cleaning 1 vessel, no need to clean and sanitize a pump and external chiller (unless you want to whirlpool, but shouldn't be needed with the conical except for post boil hop utilization), no transfers, dump hops/trub from boil kettle conical, less risk of hot side aeration, a bit less risk of oxidation, lots of backup HLTs, etc.
I'm sure there's a good reason why this isn't done, just can't figure out why. Pressure rating of the jacket to deal with both heating and cooling jumps out as the first possible thing to me, but is there something else that's obvious I'm missing? These would be fermentors and serving vessels all in one so you'd need a lot of them, but not having to transfer or clean multiple vessels seems like a huge benefit. There is a similar concept, but it uses electric rather than the jacket for heating, https://brewhaequipment.com/products...system-package
Outside of having equipment tied up for long periods of time, is it inadvisable to use indirect fire through a jacket? Or going from heating a boil to cooling in the same jacket? Would need to be able to vent the boil off as well.
Hey all, is there any reason we couldn't use 1 conical, jacketed, >15 psi rated unitank as a boil kettle, fermenter, and serving tank all in one? Indirect fire for heating during boil directly through the jacket, chilling with tap water through the jacket and then glycol, then ferment and carbonate in the same vessel and even serve from the same vessel.
Some benefits are: cleaning 1 vessel, no need to clean and sanitize a pump and external chiller (unless you want to whirlpool, but shouldn't be needed with the conical except for post boil hop utilization), no transfers, dump hops/trub from boil kettle conical, less risk of hot side aeration, a bit less risk of oxidation, lots of backup HLTs, etc.
I'm sure there's a good reason why this isn't done, just can't figure out why. Pressure rating of the jacket to deal with both heating and cooling jumps out as the first possible thing to me, but is there something else that's obvious I'm missing? These would be fermentors and serving vessels all in one so you'd need a lot of them, but not having to transfer or clean multiple vessels seems like a huge benefit. There is a similar concept, but it uses electric rather than the jacket for heating, https://brewhaequipment.com/products...system-package
Outside of having equipment tied up for long periods of time, is it inadvisable to use indirect fire through a jacket? Or going from heating a boil to cooling in the same jacket? Would need to be able to vent the boil off as well.
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