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Definitely would still recommend a bag to use in the mash tun if your design ideas can accommodate. Would be that much easier to clean up, especially if you can hinge the tun to help get the grain out. Since it sounds like your kit will likely include a pump, you may be able to get by with a...

2022, when attempts to find a decent clear (WC is my fave) IPA at local stores becomes a scavenger hunt. I think they hide most of them with all of the Brown and Mild ales!

Cooling: I do MIAB with a 5gal round cooler. I also have a SS chiller (came with the kettle) and another budget Cu coil. Making my own ice in the deep freeze, I repurpose the mash cooler (which has zero hardware inside thanks to the bag) into a pre chiller using my own ice and the SS coil...

Agree with many already here. For water got an RO rig off Amazon. Not the best ($65) but it was good to start with. I have a pair of 5gal/19L car boys that get refilled during my brew day. If this thing gives the bare minimum of it’s rated output I’ll have enuf water for 30 5gal batches, if...

My dad drank “Red White & Blue” in the early 80s, when I was still small enuf to stand upright on the bench seat of the pickup truck (4 or 5). Things were FAR more lax back then in rural Iowa, so some days Dad would have a can or two AFTER spending the day on a tractor. Sometimes I’d spend...

The recirculation kit Anvil sells with their pump has a small angled pipe which fits the hole in the lid. Then it's just silicone tubing connecting to the pump, and more tubing from pump to the kettle spigot. Others have used a hangover-type whirlpool arm in the same manner. Minimal...

I have an Anvil Foundry 6.5, so my experience is derived from this unit. Most AIO systems offer a time-delay for heating the mash water, and can fairly easily accommodate more complicated processes, like step-mashing. The Grainfather has an app you can use with your phone for more remote...

I run mine full, target 23L to start the boil, 21L into the fermenter. That's where the 240 comes in handy ;)

This ^

another vote for BrewFather here. I've been dialing in my hardware profile each time I brew. the yeast starter/overbuild calculator works reasonably well. the water additions were also easy to follow. the hydrometer temp correction tool has also come in handy. BF was my first web-based...

It really works a treat eh? Wondering... did you let it free-off-gas the first 12-24hrs before you applied the spund, or let it rise to 25-30 PSI right from yeast pitch? I've been doing the former in the thought it would work thru the initial "high temp" flavors that lager yeast can generate...

w00t! have fun! :cool:

That is acetaldehyde, which is precursor to the creation of alcohol during fermentation. In kegged beer this flavor can stick around in the batch seemingly forever if you ended fermentation prematurely. I dunno if the priming sugar used to carbonate in bottles would clear this, as I have...

Anvil 6.5 here - the 120/240 option put it above the rest for my needs. The delay timer is also handy. Price was nice too (shipping from Indiana to Iowa wasn't bad). I do MIAB with a 5 gallon round cooler, so the smaller kettle Anvil worked for me. but I know several folks that have dropped...

I've been thru this cycle several times now.... Started back in my teens to college years: Friends would grab cases of Busch "Latte" as it was bang for the buck. If you like Light American Lager it's OK, but as that was the ONLY style I'd ever had in a beer my whole life up to that point, I...

Okay, here is the 34/70: I did a <very> slow closed transfer from the ferm-keg to the serving keg with a spunding valve. No other finings added other than 3C/38F and 23 days lagering. Tastes lovely 😍

This is just fantastic,. Way to go the extra mile there!

Yeah, two 39ft spools covered both my gas and beer lines for 5 kegs and several utility/jumper lines for closed transfers. Actually, I think I have most of that 2nd spool still...

I use pluto taps, some older with a 1/4" barb. Heated the 4mm EVA line in water and friction fit. Sits with the EVA coils on top of their respective kegs in the keezer (no mods yet, just an inkbird). I mention the pluto taps because I've found they produce a slightly faster pour than a cobra...

As others have already mentioned, your undersink RO unit's output will vary slightly with the input water chemistry and overall build/maintenance of the system. Having said that, any way you look at it an RO system <generally> spits out water that the vast majority of people will call "close to...