I like that they improved it by moving the display to the top of the unit as that would be more convenient to my bad back - although that seems less protected from a boil over. That said, I wish I could’ve spent the extra $$ on the Foundry. I really like it at the price point - it was $299 with the pump at William’s Brewing at the time and it has been around a relatively long time with (as I understand) a history of reliability. I bought the M&B with the built-in recirc pump last November and had been comparing it to the Foundry. Have any of you compared the three systems before purchase or have tested/owned more than one of these units.
ANVIL FOUNDRY MAX GRAIN BILL FULL
Highest volume capacity allowing full volume mash. Not sure if that’s because it’s new or very reliable? Assuming with Blichman ties customer service and quality would not be an issue. Mid price point for what I’m looking at and mid volume basket as well.Īnvil Foundry. Makes me nervous if there are reliability issues with system.īrewzilla. Basically non existent from what I’ve read. Limit on volume and not great customer service.
Right now, per my research, I’ve been influenced to believe: Any extreme benefits for one over the others or extreme pitfalls to make me stay away. Can anyone speak to durability of the electronics on the units (feel if that fails system is worthless) Focused on price, want to recirc mash and whirlpool when chilling with my own pump (no pump needed with purchase). Plan would be to still use propane system for big beers or large volume.ĭeciding between Mash and Boil, Brewzilla 9.5 gallon and Anvil Foundry 10.5. Been doing as much research as possible for a supplement to my large propane biab kettle setup. So hopefully this will help you give a sense of the "range" of the system.Hi everyone. If you include rice hulls, Ive done grain bills as high as 19.25lbs in the malt-pipe and bag and sparged more. But I will try the reiterated mash technique first to see if its worth my time/money to purchase a cooler for bigger grain bills. I also imagine that the cooler route for a bigger grain bill would work fine as I have considered this myself. I haven't done this yet myself, but I believe a few others here on HBT have done this with success. The drawback to reiterated mashing is obviously the longer brewday. So my plan for this one is a reiterated mash technique where you mash twice, each with half the grain bill, and the second grain bill mashes uses the wort from the first mash. I am planning on brewing my first stout in the next month which will require me to go over 20lbs of grain, targeting about a ~9% abv stout. I have run 28 batches thus far, mostly IPAs, Pale ales, NEIPAs, and a couple belgian beers. I do use a bag in the malt-pipe which allows me to crush finer and I do sparge on most of my beers as well which helps with efficiency. I have been able to achieve 75-76% mash/lauter efficiency with this unit. I have been able to achieve an OG of 1.071 without the use of sugars (dextrose, candi syrup, etc) with about 16.5lbs of grain (yes you can safely go over the manufacturers 16lb max grain capacity). As far as "versatility" Im assuming based on your post, you are referring to the range of gravity you can get on this system. Luckily I was still in there and heard a hissing sound and turned the water off before it caused too much trouble.Ĭlick to expand.I bought the AF 10.5g about a year ago and did my first brew on it in january. Last night the tubing split right as I was beginning the boil and sprayed water all over the kitchen. Well it worked the night before when I tested for an hour, but I did notice the tubing running between the barbs was swollen at both ends and I was a little concerned that there was too much pressure for it. Then I decided I would try to make my own adapter by connecting my 3/8 female to barb fitting to a short piece of clear tubing and then connect a barb to 3/4 male fitting to the other end of the tubing so that the Steam Slayer water-in could be screwed on to that. I bought a 3/8 female to 3/4 male fitting, but it didn’t seal the way the kitchen hose is designed so water just flowed backwards around the hose. I have one of those pull-down hose faucets, and the fitting that the sprayer head is connected to is 3/8 male. Yes, I just have the drain hose stuck down the kitchen sink drain.
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