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dwhitlinger
Joined: 26 Nov 2013 Posts: 10 Location: Crotonville, NY
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Link Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:58 am Post subject: Electric Brewery for maple syrup boil? |
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Hello,
I built a 25 gallon 50A electric brewery following your excellent website instructions in 2014. I'm a big fan!
I was thinking about doing maple syrup for the first time this year with my young boys. We bought 10 taps and I think we should be able to find 10 trees around to tap in the next couple of months. My boil kettle is a 25 gallon Stout tank with two heating elements installed in it and controlled by a PID. I was thinking that I would plumb it onto one of my circulating pumps just like when I whirlpool at the end of a brew boil so that the sap is continuously in motion and less likely to caramelize. We would keep the sap in one of my fermentation refrigerators for a couple of days until we have 40 gallons and then start the boil off with 25 gallons and add more sap to the boil kettle continuously as the water boils off until we've added all 40 gallons. We'd keep boiling it down until we got to 3-4 gallons and then filter it and move it to a smaller stove top kettle for the finishing boil (219F).
What do you think? Crazy? Too expensive to do it this way? Thoughts?
Dave
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Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11121 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Joined: 15 Sep 2015 Posts: 177 Location: central wi
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dwhitlinger
Joined: 26 Nov 2013 Posts: 10 Location: Crotonville, NY
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Link Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:13 am Post subject: Thanks! |
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That's pretty close to exactly what I was thinking about doing - thanks!
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