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I always do a full (7-10 days) primary fermentation closed but have heard some people leave it open for the first three days then close it. I guess since this brewery is bottling early in order to finish fermentation in secondary no priming is needed. For me to try this I'd really have to be...

I love that video! The thing most interesting is not sanitizing things like spoons, samplers, and doing an FV top up with straight tap water (not boiled). I brewed a brown ale last week and my FV was very full (30L wort in 30L bucket) and had a mix of Voss and US-05 (an experiment). I had to...

I wonder if Anchor Brewery is going to sell off their open fermentor tanks?

I brew British cask ales and don't force carbonate. I cask [keg] condition it at 17C (62F) for about 5 days before chilling. I'm only shooting for 1.1 to 1.2 parts and add only 1g per liter. A 5L mini keg gets 5g.

Is the recipe presented on the first page of this thread still correct? Asking as I see there's lots of discussion and mention of not being able to edit it anymore. My LBS has A09 last I checked. First Gold - not so easy to get here. I have a Dark Mild and Ghost Ship [citrus pale] clone on the...

I used to shy away from any poorly attenuating yeast but now am on a bit of drive to brew more session-like English ales and have a dark mild finishing now. I used WLP 002 for the first time and it looks like it's slowly creeping up to 69% or so to give me a 3.3% ABV. My go-to's are S-04, 1469...

I went back and forth on a larger fermenter but in the end I just got a second 7.9gal plastic bucket for my mostly British ales. If I have a big batch I do it in two buckets - each of which I can lift and place inside my $60 used chest freezer for temp control. I have a spigot on them and cask...

I acquired two hi-gene 1/4pt without jackets so I built an insulated box and a small 50mm fan pushes cold air into the box and it returns to my keezer. Mind you - my keezer is only at 50F/10C as it is all cask conditioned real ale.

Same here (SF Bay Area). Luckily just casked three ales for xmas so enough to hunker down for a bit (David Heaths ESB, Fullers London Porter, and TT Landlord). Although, I can move my Anvil in the garage and leave a side door open and run a box fan pushing the steam out of the open door. Re...

I did actually cancel my pre-order. I like my Anvil 10.5 and my "issue" with big grain bills not so huge since I stick to English style beers. My desire for larger batches (to get some beer for whiskey) is valid but I can just do another batch. I mean I only fire the thing up once or twice a...

I'm actually considering canceling my pre-order at MB. It is obviously NOT too late :D Thinking about sticking with my Anvil 10.5 - at least for the meantime. See how the gen4 goes in the general populous for a bit.

I emailed them but have not heard back. On the FB group there was talk of these pre-orders getting lost.

Seems like they could release the firmware update to allow for BTLE temperature sensors much easier than manufacturing and distributing new false bottoms. Talking of half batches, one of my reasons to go up to the 65L (from Anvil 10.5gal) is so I can do a little more than 23L batches much...

On my Anvil 10.5 240V I use 100% to heat to strike then use 60%. 75% to raise to mash-out then back to 60%. 90% to boil then back to 65% for my amount of boil off.

Is this with the redesigned false bottom? One thing I like about my Anvil 10.5 is the temps are within 1C (maybe 2) with recirc.

With my 240V Anvil 10.5 I definitely use different power settings for each stage. 100% heat-up, 65% Mash, 75% Mash-out, 90% heat-to-boil, 65% boil for 90mins. Likewise when distilling (100% to 55C at head, 60% after that)

Just spotted a comment on the FB group that the U.S. 240V models could ship around end of October.

220V & 110V are old terms in regards to the US. It's been 120V single and 240V split-phase for many years which matches much of the rest of the world I believe.

I was in the Willamette Valley this week talking with a brewer of British ales and he mentioned Crystal hops which I was not even aware of. I might check them out.