![]() Especially since shops could close up any time with this pandemic. Buying a whole sack of 2-row does save some cash and less trips to the brew shop. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a good deal on a grain mill. I'm going to get a pound or two on my next order and probably just add some regardless. 5-8oz sounds like a good place to start then. Wilbur, thanks for the info on the rice hulls. I intended to do this but the bag I purchased is too short. As ynotbrusum mentioned, yeah maybe just go without recirc or try a brew bag. I should probably contact Anvil and ask what to do. It just has too high of a "default" flow rate. I'm a little disappointed with the recirc pump. A 1/2 gallon of boil-off on 7.3 gallons of water doesn't work out to 5.5 gallons. Under those charts it says "volumes should be 2.75 and 5.5 gallons to compensate for losses during brew day." I'm missing something or their math is messed up. The chart for "The "Sparge" method (14lbs of grain) lists 6.3 gallons of strike water and 7.3 gallons "Total water" (another word for pre-boil I guess). Ok, this is closer to what I'm actually getting rather than the customary 1 gallon loss. ![]() On page 4, it says 120v will boil off "about 1/2 gallon of water per hour at 100% power". I was going to try the no-sparge but I'm still trying to figure out the boil volumes (120 volt). Tasted like beer alright when I pulled a sample after fermentation was done. Despite all the shenangians, it doesn't smell too bad. I have the batch in the kegerator right now carbonating so haven't tried it yet. After a 60 minute boil and two cups of sucrose later it was up to 1.064. That seemed to get things draining again but after sparging I was at 1.054. After 30 minutes in though, and two stuck mashes later, I just decided to go deep. The first couple times I was careful to only rake the top two thirds of the mash and not disturb the bottom of the grain bed. In the end, the mash got stuck at least four times and the recirc pump would just be overflowing the basket when I'd check on it. I don't think I got a nice and slow flow out of the pump. I tried to match the flow rate these guys were using in the videos but the pump started protesting with howling noises the more I tightened the clamp so I backed off. SInce I have no experience to fall back on, I relied on a few youtube videos that featuring the Foundry. The recirc pump comes with a clamp which constricts the pump hose to increase or decrease the flow during the sacchrification rest. Quote from: Joe_Beer on August 27, 2020, 05:02:56 pm I purchased an Anvil foundry last month and did my first all grain batch a couple weeks ago. I could maybe request a different crush I suppose but I don't really know what to ask for. Should I have used rice hulls with a 14lb grain bill? If so, how much do you add? I don't have a grain mill and just had the grain pre-crushed from the brew shop so can't really do any adjusting there. I used Northern Brewers's Chinook IPA kit and boosted the grain bill a little in Brewersfriend to get a little higher ABV. ![]() I purchased an Anvil foundry last month and did my first all grain batch a couple weeks ago.
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