Recipe Book



Home Brewing Recipes

Search BrewingKB



Home Brewing Articles

General Brewing

  • Homebrewing
    Discuss your brewing techniques, brewing styles, and any tips you might have. Use our community to ask about these things as well.
  • Bottling
    Tips and tricks to finding a home for your beer.
  • Equipment
    Show off your equipment, share tips on maintaining and sanitizing.
  • Terms
    Common home brewing terms and jargon for the new home brewer.

Recipes

  • Homebrew Recipes
    Share your recipes and comment on other's recipes that you try.
  • Beer Related Recipes
    Do you have a good recipe that uses beer (or wine)? Know of any good marinade's? Let us know about them here.

Alternative Brewing

  • Brewing Cider
    Techniques for brewing cider. Tips, tricks, questions, they all go here.
  • Wine
    The art of distilling wine. Discuss tricks to the trade, your successes (or failures), and the joy of distilling wine.
  • Mead
    A wine made from fermented honey and water. Discuss brewing this favorite of the Romans and Greeks.

Home Brewing Community

  • The Pub
    A place to discuss things not about brewing, beer, wine, etc. This is a place to get to know our other members outside of our shared enjoyment of home brewing.
  • Beer / Wine Talk
    Talk about your favorite beers and wines (and meads and ciders, etc) with other beer and wine lovers.

Brew Market

  • Selling Brewing Stuff
    Whether its equipment or ingredients, if you need to get rid of some of your brewing stuff, do it here.
  • Buying Brewing Stuff
    Why pay regular price when you can request what you need from our brewing community?

You are not logged in.

Attention: Check out the new BKB Home Brewing Blog

Pages: 1

MSR Dragonfly white gas stove

As many of you who read this forum already know it only took me one batch to get hooked. My first brew was an October fest brewed with a friend before Christmas, and now I have finally made the investment in my own brewing equipment and I am getting hooked quicker than I thought.

I spend a lot of time in the outdoors and backpacking, and I have been using my MSR Dragonfly white gas stove to do my boiling. Since I see myself moving to all grain brewing over the next year I think it would be wise to invest in a high BTU propane burner system.

Which burners are the best in terms of function and value? Is a double burner worth the investment?

I would not mind spending $50-80 for a single burner system or $100 for a double burner. Please point me in the right direction. Links to Internet retailers would be a great help.
Reply
Thanks
Bennett

 

1.    When deciding what to get keep in mind your intended batch size and kettle diameter. I use the Bayou Classic burners because I find they're a little more universal when it comes to fitting a kettle due to the square shape and size. It stands about 13" tall and the surface is 16" square--perfect for large kettles such as converted kegs or Polar ware. I'm not forced into a particular kettle due to the burner. They're available at Home Depot or Lowe's. They also have plenty of juice to get water/worth heated quickly. I looked at some of the double burners and they weren't wide enough to accommodate two converted kegs. With these burners I've been averaging three 10-gallon all-grin batches per 20# propane tank.
Thanks
Malachi

 

2.    I started out with a cheap 4-inch burner in a 12-inch base but when turned up to a higher-level output there was always a deposit of black soot under my stockpot indicating poor efficiency and wasting a lot of fuel. Check out the Kings Kookier Model TL280. It has two separate jets and two sets of rings for a wide range of output and there is never a trace of soot on the pot. It features automatic ignition and I believe it is also available for natural gas. It is made in Taiwan and distributed by Music City Metals in Nashville, Tennessee. Cost is a little over 100 U S $.
Thanks
Hector

 

Pages: 1

Post Your Reply