Instant water heaters in the bewery.

[bub]

From my experience inline systems are LESS efficient at actually heating the water, (fake numbers here) lets say it takes 1500 btu's of gas to heat 60 g from 65 to 120 where in a tank the surface area allows only 1000 btu's to do the same work... the savings comes in the fact that it takes an additional 750-1000 btu's to keep the water at 120 for 24 hours. Like I said fake numbers but that is my understanding. I could be wrong as I am not a physicist and may just be beliving propaganda as to the benefits of the inline systems. Fluffa you all.
BUB

[Dr Scott]

Chris Grham and I were talking about this very thing last year. I think we even priced some on-demand systems.

I don't remember why we abandoned this. Maybe unit cost, or possibly the water quality coming out of it or, we saw a shiney red object and lost our train of thought. It would be nice to have hot water on demand in the brewery though.

[KC-Dave]

well, I looked into this again and found that most instant hot water heaters have an output of about 140 degrees.

I did find a commercial model that has a digital readout of the temp coming out and a max of 180 degrees sustained.

http://www.palomatankless.com/products/ ... s_28c.html

[BentwoodBlue]

We are buying one as soon as I pony up the $1600 for the unit and installation.

[KC-Dave]

You do have a point. It is an outragous amount of money. More what small bewery would need then what a homebrewer needs.

[Geistbier]

The brewer I visitred Sunday was steam powered from the buildings older steam heating system, when the building went to modernize, they bought the use from the building owners and directed it to their hot liqour tank. The brewer said the advantage was it was generally qwuicker and more efficent than gas, but even so they had to start heating water the evening before a batch.

[Thirsty Boy]

have a look here http://www.rezi.com.au/content1.html

They are little plugin electric instant hot water heaters. Meant to be used in Caravans and RVs. Nearly get you all the way to mashing temp (max 50 degree C raise from ambient at a couple of litres per minute) and you can find em on e-bay (Australia) for it looks like under $200.00 AUD

Probably find similar things in America. I know that I saw the same sort of thing at the hotel I stayed in, in Timor Leste and it was good enought ot shower under. So they must be out there.

You could set one up as part of a portable unit like the water filter gadget from the gadget show. That'd be cool

Thirsty