![]() ![]() Hopefully this helps some people figure out what they want to buy. Ultimately you really can’t go wrong with either or, they both perform great. Personally, I like the tighter mash specs of the Foundry, and the ability to put more grain in it (IMO 18-19lbs is easily doable) as well as the ability to run 240V in the future. Time will tell how reliable the system overall it is. My Anvil did have the common fuse issue, which hopefully is now solved. One thing I will mention is that the M&B has had at least 40 brews through it and still keeps right on ticking. Easy brew day, even with trying to maintain two worts going at the same time. Unfortunately the instructions were not that great with this (at least gen 1), ended up having to make out own all grain instruction sheet at my store for it. It was faster to reach a boil however, so maybe this makes it better for someone stuck with 120V power. Depending on your thoughts on mash temperatures this may or may not be an issue. It would reach there, then fall down to 164 before kicking on again. This also was apparent when recirculating to get to 168f. Because it’s temperature swing is set to 4f it didn’t kick the element on to maintain temperature. The M&B fell lower and actually registered down to 148f for most of the mash. It also has fantastic instructions that make the switch to all grain easier for most people. I think the extra mass is what caused the slow rise as it is 3-4 gallons larger than the M&B. Obviously this can be fixed with switching to 240V though. It was very slow to get to a boil though, almost 15 minutes slower than the M&B. It also was a lot more accurate at keeping the 168f as it is set to 1 degree swing. The Foundry maintained temperature a lot better I think, it actually was on the hot side for most of the mash (152 instead of 150f). So, besides getting the numbers almost exactly the same, how do they compare? This was consistent across all the beers, they both pretty much fell into the same efficiency levels and vital numbers. ![]() The PH readings were both within margin of error as well with the Foundry batch at 5.40 and the M&B at 5.43. The gravity was adjusted with 10oz DME for both, and both ended up at the same OG. Both got about 64% mash efficiency according to beersmith (within margin of error), but both had low gravity readings as I over sparged. ![]() Sparged each with 2.25 gallons 120F tap water because I didn’t feel like breaking out my propane burner (I’ve done this before on the M&B with good results). They each had 45 minute mashes with 15 minute recirculation while raising to 168f. Recipe 2įor the blonde, both were preset to have 6 gallons water ready to mash when I woke up in the morning morning, with staggered start times of 45 minutes. Actually it was technically 5 different beers, a pale ale, IPA, Pilsner, Vienna lager and two blonde ales that were exactly the same recipe so I could see how well each did. 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 Brewingīeen wanting to release a review/write up on a side by side comparison with my new Anvil Foundry and my store’s Mash and Boil unit, so I spent last weekend brewing 6 different beers with both the Mash and Boil and Anvil Foundry. 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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