ANVIL FOUNDRY ALL-GRAIN BREWING SYSTEM

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How much excess/leftover wort do you guys with a 10.5 have left in the foundry after transferring to a fermenter?

I ferment and serve in a corny keg and after transferring I had around 1.5g left in the foundry. I like having some left behind as I not want to transfer the hop matter and trub, but it seems like a lot of waste.

Ive been looking into getting an all rounder lately. With that i am thinking i can empty the foundry to the all rounder and send a full 5g of clean beer to the keg post fermentation.

I usually have about a half gallon to a gallon left over. To help minimize loss, I like to take a fine mesh nylon bag and dump the remaining wort and trub though it.

Depending on what fermenter I'm using, I sometimes have to use my funnel and place the bag in it and tie the draw sting tight. I soak the bag and funnel in sanitizer before using it, and then wring it out. The bag usually clogs a little so I just lift it up and gently roll all the trub back and forth inside the bag and it drains out quite a bit. All the trub/hop matter clumps up after a while of gently rolling it in the bag and it all drains out and practically looks dry after a few minutes of doing this. That's when I call it good and remove the bag with everything left behind.


I usually gain about another half gallon in my fermenter by doing this, and I experience no off flavors, astringentcy, tannins, or anything.

 

[RyPA]

I am finally going to pick up a standalone fermenter, it will give me a bit more volume of finished beer since with fermenting in a keg some of the volume is consumed by the yeast cake + headspace I leave for the krausen.

I've read that trub helps with fermentation, so I may nearly empty the Foundry into the fermenter, maybe leaving behind just a quart or so once I see there is only crap left at the bottom.

 

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My method these days is, after it's cooled down, I let it sit for a while and I go get something to eat, start cleaning, and so on. An hour later or so it's mostly settled on its own and then I transfer all but the last inch or so to the fermenter. It was all stuff that needed to be done anyhow, so I simply rearranged my sequence a little bit.

 

[RyPA]

My method these days is, after it's cooled down, I let it sit for a while and I go get something to eat, start cleaning, and so on. An hour later or so it's mostly settled on its own and then I transfer all but the last inch or so to the fermenter. It was all stuff that needed to be done anyhow, so I simply rearranged my sequence a little bit.

I do the same lately for my non-hazies, but have been thinking that with the dip tube being at the bottom of the foundry, pointing down, you are transferring some excess crap.

I have been trying to think of a way to transfer from the top down, like a floating dip tube situation. I even considered using an auto siphon I have laying around, but using a pump connected to the ball valve is so much easier/faster. Something else I thought of is rotating the dip tube connected to the ball valve upwards or even sideways, so it is not sucking from the very bottom of the foundry. This will increase the amount of wasted wort, but what goes to the fermenter will be cleaner.

 

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I have my inner angled tube thing pointing sideways. Far more often than not, that has it slightly above the level of settled trub and I tilt the Anvil ever so slightly to get the cleaner beer off the top.

 

[RyPA]

I have my inner angled tube thing pointing sideways. Far more often than not, that has it slightly above the level of settled trub and I tilt the Anvil ever so slightly to get the cleaner beer off the top.

Cool, I am going to do the same, maybe with a slight upwards tilt.

 

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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...-in-the-fermenter.733837/page-2#post-10425098

On a related note, it might be that this practice (transferring clean wort after boiling) isn't beneficial, LOL.

One consistent thing I've seen over the years is - RDWHAHB. Most things just aren't super important. Except cold side oxygen, that's definitely important. Everything else it seems - not so much.

 

[doug293cz]

^^ This ^^

I was gonna do this post, but got beat to the punch.

Brew on

 

[RyPA]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...-in-the-fermenter.733837/page-2#post-10425098

On a related note, it might be that this practice (transferring clean wort after boiling) isn't beneficial, LOL.

One consistent thing I've seen over the years is - RDWHAHB. Most things just aren't super important. Except cold side oxygen, that's definitely important. Everything else it seems - not so much.

My thought was clearer wort in the fermenter results in clearer finished beer, but maybe that is not the case.

 

[kevin58]

My thought was clearer wort in the fermenter results in clearer finished beer, but maybe that is not the case.

Correct. The thought that clear wort in equals clearer beer out does not correlate.

 

[Bobby_M]

They have an inverse correlation it seems.

 

[RyPA]

So pretty much drain everything into the fermenter except the bottom-most sludge/hop solids?