HEATING ARCHIVE

Welcome! We are so glad you're back with us today. Just like we promised, we're going to run the mighty mini again. Now if you've already read the first mighty meaning run, we ran three gallons of mash through that. We're going to use the same internal 2000 watt heater element. So 120 volt, but instead of using the variable control, we're going to use the P ID controller that we put together so I'll get into the description about this in just a moment. The primary difference is that we've removed the bone and the digital thermometer from the...

We're going to talk about heating options for stills because there are several, the most direct is probably one that most people are familiar with is propane. You know the turkey fryer, where you hook your bottle of propane up and you turn your turkey fryer on. Most of those standard turkey fryers about 35,000 bt use 35 to 50,000 bt use of course you can get the banjo cooker. It shoots up as high as 150,000 bt uses all that really means is that you use a little bit more propane you've got a little bit more control to...

Today is a discussion about using the banjo cooker. Now if you're a distiller and you're using propane, you have many options out there. Most of the time we would recommend someone, especially if on their initial stages is to use the turkey fryer because they're readily available. They're very inexpensive. But there are some other options in life. Now if you want more, you want the maximum control possible.  That's whether you're running a stool whether you're heating up your wart, whether you're heating up your mash, whatever the case may be.  This banjo cooker has a 30 psi...

Welcome back. We're so glad you're with us today. Today's topic is going to be evaluating our system to make sure that we have the appropriate power, the appropriate equipment, and we're actually safe, we don't want to cause any problems. So please bear with me because this is a really simple process, but it's very,  misunderstood.    We need to get the whiteboard, because we're going to do a little bit of math as you've read on the other discussions. Bear with me, it's not that difficult and believe it or not, it's relatively simple. So you can use...

The last one we discuss on a single element, we use the 2000 watt 120-volt element, 240 volts versus 120 volts we only did the one element, and what we realized what we came to find out was that one element or 120 volts operating at 100% power pole 16.6 amps. Normally we're running these on a 20 amp circuit so we are safe and we can run that all day long. Continue to run it is really good because it's on that 12 gauge wire which can handle 25 amps, but it's only a 20 amp circuit.    What...