In all three brews I have made I have not changed the grind from my BIAB set up and ended up with mash efficiencies in the 80% to 81% range, fairly consistent. I ended up bringing it back to around 50% to respond a bit faster to dips in the temperature after mashing in. I brought the mash up to temperature and then lowered the power to 40%. I heard from others that you want the power to be lower during the mash so that you did not get the swings in mash temperatures due to being overpowered in the heating element. So far, I have been pretty pleased with the system. My times at both power inputs were very similar to what you listed. I just did my first brew at 240v today on my 6.5G Anvil after two brews at 120v to test the system out. Dayum it's going to be a good batch! Need to add a little acidity when I go to keg, but it's really nice as it stands.ġ ea Clarity-Ferm (10ml) - added dry to primary fermenter hopefully they have some that small!Īlso took a moment to sample a mead that I'm getting close to racking into a keg. I'll have to hit the hardware store this week to replace it. LOL.Īnd of course I lost one of the tiny little washers for the thumbscrews that hold the pumphead on. Doesn't work that well w/ the malt pipe since the bottom & bottom sides are mesh.
Anvil foundry 6.5 review update#
Update #4: Cleaning the malt pipe in the kitchen is a bit challenging my normal process for cleaning pots and kettles is to set them sideways over the sink, angled down a little bit, and use my sprayer to rinse out the residual trub, grains, etc.
If not I'll have to look into one of the hang-over-the-side types. Also would need to be sure there is enough clearance to allow the whirlpool fitting to co-exist with the malt tube. AFAIK there are no electrical components / wiring in the walls of the Anvil, but I'll check w/ them to be sure. I have one on my regular boil kettle and it works like a champ.
Anvil foundry 6.5 review install#
I'm immediately thinking to install an SSBrewTech whirlpool fitting on the Anvil. might have to look for a mesh tube that is taller than 14".Ĭracked open a Maine Beer Zoe to have with my lunch. Might not be next time, I'll have to be careful. Had about 0.5" clearance, but that was enough. My hop tube only reaches a couple of inches into the wort, so I unhooked it from the side of the Foundry and set it on the bottom. (It is interesting that the readout says 208✯, but it's clearly at a very low "entry level" boil.)
It's a very gentle boil when I first took the lid off it looks a bit more vigorous, but it settled down to more a "simmer". Update #2: Took just shy of an hour to bring ~6 gallons to a boil 120v. Lifted the malt pipe, took about four minutes for the primary wort to drain, I'm going to let it sit at least until the wort comes up to a boil, if not longer. Update #1: Just finished the mash, and I hit an efficiency of 76%. It's virtually silent, no cavitation issues, and if I let it go full-steam it's quite powerful - not quite as fast as my Chugger or March pumps, but close enough for brewing purposes. It's recirculating now for the mash, and so far this little pump is performing admirably. (I would not, of course, recirculate if I was setting the timer the night before.) enough that I plan to recirculate the entire time next session, as it looks like it would save me at least 10 - 15 minutes heating to strike temp. So for the ten minute segments where I recirculated, I did see an increase in temperature gain. After 60 minutes I stopped timing and let it just go all the way to my target temp of 159✯, while recirculating, as I milled my grain.
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