Recent content by Refectv2

Absolutely! Those are great results as well. I was very surprised at my first calculation of 85%, but after you mentioned most have not been able to get those results I questioned my math and went back and looked over everything lol. I had a lot of fun brewing on this setup and already can't...

So I looked back over my formula and numbers and I actually hit 72-73% efficiency. I was pretty tired at the end of my brew day when I did my calculations lol. The computer isn't working so I can't use beer smith. Got to do everything the old fashion way lol I can still share my brew day...

Got my first batch in on this and everything went well. Nice gentle boil the whole time, so I'm not sure what freak occurence happened on my initial test boil. Boiled off more than I expected so a little less beer than 5 gal, but oh well. Took plenty of notes, so I'll know how to adjust for next...

Thank you guys! So it looks like the heating elements are c shaped like bent brewer was saying and seeing the pictures in that link. Hence the c shape of bubbles at the bottom of my kettle, so that is good to know. Now that I have a better understanding of how it works. I took atmopheric...

I bought mine right off anvil's website a couple weeks ago. I think I got lucky. I noticed it said ships by end of week when I purchased, and it switched to mid march shortly after I bought it. I must have got one if the last ones. I'll try another round of test boiling with it and see how it...

I let it run to mimic a 90 minute boil, and I "boiled" off, or at least evaporated about a gallon of water, so the numbers were accurate. My concern is that I'm not even really getting a simmer, which is making me think something is defective. It's just flat surface water as I watched small...

That is what I was thinking. Maybe mine is defective, or the temp probe is not calibrated correctly, so the system won't allow the water to get into a good boil? I stuck a thermometer in there and it read 209 more towards the top of the kettle. I don't have long enough probe and am not sticking...

How was everyone's boil on 120v setting? I just received mine (10.5 gal) and did a test run with 6.5 gal of tap water to make sure everything was working properly with no leaks. Once mine reached 212 I didn't get a boil at 6.5 gal. It was just bubbles coming up from the bottom with little to no...