![]() Overall I think it is worth it depending on the temp of the water going into the kettle it can shorten a brew day by up to an hour. But a stove heats the water at a substantial faster temp and it also does require a little bit of work and makes a more dangerous situation because of using liquids that will burn you. Some math and or guessing is needed to figure out how much water to boil to get it to you desired temp. I have the 10.5 foundry system one thing I have found to be very helpful in speeding up my brew day is to fill the foundry up with water and then take some of the liquid out and boil it on my stove top and add it back into the foundry to get it to strike temp faster. This gives time to pull the basket and let it drain for 10-15 minutes, empty out the grain, clean the basket (and everything else I'm done with), assemble/sanitize the fermenter, measure out hops, etc. Heating to boil is also about ~45 minutes. The 240v Solo on the other hand heats up in about half that time, so is usually at strike temp before I'm ready for it. I find this lines up pretty well with the time it takes me to double-check the recipe, treat the water, measure/mill the grain, and get everything else set up at a leisurely pace. Heating time to mash temps is ~45 minutes. I'm more interested in being set up to do zero prep the day before, and there are always plenty of other things I can occupy myself with during the mash/boil. I'm personally not interested in optimizing for the shortest day possible. I like the system because it fits in with my brew day. Mash efficiency is pretty regularly around 75%, which I'm fine with. I stir a whole bunch at mash-in, and then don't touch it again. Recirc can be finicky sometimes (the linear flow valve on the Riptide isn't happy with a really low flow rate), so I have to keep an eye on it.įull volume, no sparge, never tried anything else with it. I use the recirculation kit with a Riptide pump, waiting 10 minutes after mash-in to start. Rice hulls only used if there's flaked or huskless grain. Tried it once, it worked fine, but not for me.Ĭrush is at 0.35". I don't use a bag in the malt pipe, not really interested in extra things to clean. I can't speak to any particular default equipment profile in any software, I built my own for it in Brewfather. Can't speak to the Anvil buckets, I use the SS Brewtech Brew Bucket mini (w/ FTSs for heating/chilling). I alternate between two systems, a Spike Solo for 5g batches and a Foundry 6.5 for 2.5g batches. I also ferment in 5 gal cornys and sometimes I'll do a high-gravity batch and fermenter top-up with a 6.5 gal bucket. ![]() I use the cooling kit for my temp control. I shoot for 3.25gal into the fermenter mostly at this point as I keg in 3 gal kegs. ![]() The 6.5 Foundry and 4 gal Brew Bucket is my primary setup. I like to do my water up the night before and set the timer so I can start my brew day early. Stepped rests and sparging can be added once you are comfortable. I did mostly single infusion, full volume mashes while I learned the system. I recommend checking the malt pipe wort temp to make sure you get the rest temps you plan. Adding some rice hulls helps a lot, like 3% of the grain bill or so. It can run slow especially with anything hull-less. I can do a pretty fine crush as I mention in the links Chino posted. The included Anvil 6.5 profile is very close to what you will need. IRC channel Specific Fermentation-Related Sub-RedditsĬider Mead Wine Brew Gear For Sale Distilling Spanish Homebrewing Subreddit Growing Hops Grainfather "Hold my yeast" - crazy fermentation ideas Prison Hooch - getting drunk for pennies Pro Brewing Kombucha Fermented Foods Automated Brewing If you can think of a good general link or even a better one than is currently posted please message the mods and let us know! Glossary of Terms Acronym Soup Yeast Harvesting Yeast Starter Priming Sugar Calculator Is It Infected? r/Homebrewing chat: Please be patient as more links will be added you have to start somewhere. What Did You Learn This Month? (4th Wed.) Brewing Tools/Information Tu: Tuesday Recipe Critique and Formulation!įri: Free-For-All Friday! Monthly Threads Vendors/Potential Vendors, read this before posting Daily Threads ![]() Welcome those of the fermentation persuasion!īefore making a post, read our posting guidelines ![]()
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