Anvil Crucible Conical fermenter unboxing and detailed overview
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Anvil Crucible Conical fermenter unboxing and detailed overview of the 7 gallon fermenter. The 14 gallon Anvil Crucible Conical fermenter is the same, just larger.
If you are looking to take your fermentation to the next level or are considering an eventual glycol chilling system this would be a great step in the right direction.
This video also contains another home brewing book giveaway.
High quality conical fermenter at a great price.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Intro to the Anvil Crucible Conical Fermenter
3:24 Anvil Crucible Conical unboxing
3:28 Home Brewing Book Giveaway
4:48 What is in the box?
7:40 Parts List
7:48 Inventory
10:42 Installation of the legs
12:19 Lid
12:50 Elbow and Butterfly Valve installation
15:16 Spigot installation
17:44 Racking Arm / Dip Tube installation
18:59 Volume Measurements overview
20:15 Overview on the entire system and available add-ons
22:30 Weight and leg extensions information
22:52 Photo of leg extensions
23:42 Cooling System for the Anvil Crucible Conical Fermentor
25:16 Anvil O2 Wand
25:28 O2 free transfer kit
26:06 Measurements
26:60 Yeast harvesting kit
27:52 Important note for long term storage
29:38 Huge Thank You to Anvil for sending me this amazing femeneter!
Anvil Crucible™ is a trademarked term referring to Anvil's new stainless steel conical fermenters.
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Great video! After watching this, I'm buying the Anvil Crucible today. Always appreciate your unboxing and reviews...
Thanks for the support! And let me know what you think as I've only had this for about 2 weeks now and as it has been fermenting I keep learning and so far, I'm extremely impressed.
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ANVIL CRUCIBLE: I just ran my first batch through the Anvil Crucible (coconut porter). I've been a home brewer for about 5 yrs and worked as an assistant brewer at a commercial brewery/taproom. When the gentlemen states this system mirrors commercial conical fermenters, he is correct. In the past, I had used a plastic carboy with great success. However, the ability to transfer to a keg and rotate the racking arm on the Anvil is a game changer (eg no racking siphon and guessing game). I didn't attempt a yeast harvest or dump and was pleasantly surprised the cone had more than enough room to hold the trub. I did buy a solid stopper to use during cold crashing. And, the stainless steel makes clean up a breeze. I'm looking to now purchase the oxygen free transfer kit. Do your homework for your own needs, but I don't think you will match the quality for the price.
Thank you for the great feedback. And you are so right about the cleaning as you can see and hear it is easy to clean but until you have to clean it personally, you simply don't realize how amazingly easy it really is to clean.
Nice walkthrough of the Anvil Crucible!
Thank you for the support.
Another great video, thanks! Your presentation style is easy to follow. Thanks for the work you put into this. Looks like the Anvil Crucible is a great conical fermenter option.
Thank you for the support. Sorry I went a bit long but really didn't want to miss anything, that anyone could think of asking to see.
The Anvil Crucible would be a great addition to my home brewery.
Thanks for the support and I think it would be a talk piece in anyone's home brewery setup.
Another great video. The Anvil Crucible looks like a good piece of equipment. Thanks for all the videos.
Thanks for the support and I'll keep working to test things out.
Perfect timing for this video! Was researching the Anvil Crucible vs SS, Spike, and some lesser brands. This video may have been the deciding factor to convince me to get this! Thanks for the in-depth review!
Happy to share and I have been learning more during fermentation and so far I've be extremely impressed. The stainless is such a good temperature conductor that it was 2 F below what the fermzilla (plastic) was at in the same location with the same brew and same yeast. Looking forward to the cleaning afterwards as from what I've seen it is crazy easy compared to even a plastic carboy.
Thanks for doing the unboxing of the Anvil Crucible. I hope that your first batch in it turns out great. Cheers!
Thank you for the support. Doing 2 Belgian Rye IPA brews.
I also am new to conical brewing and this video really filled in the blanks (from the limited info included) with the Anvil Crucible. Super helpful! Thanks so much for doing this video.
Thank you and I'm really happy it helped you as that is one of my goals in most of my videos. I'm always searching for information before I buy equipment and love to learn as much as I can before making my purchases too. I would use this fermenter all the time if I had a way to control the temps but I am working towards getting to that point so I can start using this system regularly.
An Anvil Crucible would be a nice addition to my Anvil Foundry!!!
Thank you for the support. Dude you won the first book but I haven't heard back from you yet...reach back out to me.
Solid review of the Anvil Crucible. Thank You
Thanks for the support.
Looks like you got your move done. I have been eating to try that fermentor. Thanks for the content
Thanks and yes the move was rough as it took me a full month to get back on track and things are a little tight but I'm working to do my best with the space I have available. It will all be worth it when the new house is built.
Such a great unboxing and presentation, well done getting to try an awesome product that we in our part of the world are yet to experience. I am so looking forward to the fermentation review that I know you will be doing in the near future. thanks for the upload.
Hope temps are too cold in your neck of the woods. I just finished doing a fermentation which will be in a video but it runs about 2 degrees (in F, not C) compared to the plastic fermenters which I wasn't expecting as it is due to the conductivity of the SS for temps. I saw a video on cleaning after a fermentation and it looked crazy easy. Eventually all my fermenters will have some sort of large opening as I am starting to hate fermenters with openings I can't get my hands into for cleaning.
After seeing your video will certainly consider the Anvil Crucible when I require another fermenter. Keep up the great work.
To be honest I was expecting quality but it is a bit more solid then I had originally expected which was impressive. It also runs about 2 degrees below a plastic fermenter as the SS is very temperature conductive.
Been watching many of your videos, great job on all of them. I have just recently got back into the HB hobby. I am researching equipment to move into AG brewing and have settled into picking up an Anvil Foundry in the near future. I am also intrigued about moving out of buckets for fermenting and into SS instead. I love the set-up and versatility of the Anvil Crucible, thanks for the complete set-up of the system and other add ones available.
Thank you very much and welcome back to a very enjoyable hobby. I will say if you are looking to get an Anvil before Xmas, get it soon as I expect to see a rush on them just before Xmas like the last few years. Also I was slowly moving from glass and plastic bottle carboys to open mouth carboys and pressure fermenters but am seriously thinking about 2 to 3 SS Anvil Conicals now as this thing has impressed me so far from the unboxing to the actual fermentation. It is a bit tall but I figured I could go to a DIY circulation chiller with or without actual glycol initially. The impressed part has been the quality, it runs about 2 F cooler (due to the SS conductivity of temperatures) compared to a plastic fermenter sitting right next to it, and I've seen a few people clean these after usage and it appears to clean up very easily compared to some other fermenters I use. Once I get into our house we are building I am debating about building a walk-in fermenter for a few reasons beyond having the space and figuring it would be cool for other experiments.
The Anvil Crucible looks like a quality product, looking forward to watch you put it to the test.
Thank you for the support and I have been shocked so far at just how solid of a product it is as it has surpassed my expectations so far but lots of testing left to do.
Good video unpacking of Anvil Crucible.
Thank you for the support.
I might need to get the Anvil Crucible some day. Plus a few more gadgets.
Thank you for the support. Its all about how dies with the most toys... 😂😂😂 According to some. I just like playing with new toys and putting them to the test to see what they can do.
Nice job very good info! I have an Anvil 4 gal bucket fermenter and wish I had the Anvil Crucible!!
Thank you for the support and I'd expect any SS fermenter to hold value very nicely so you could either add to or sell and buy the next step up. So far I have been beyond impressed.
Love you videos and this anvil crucible one is quite timely!!
Thank you for the support and kind words. I'm guessing you were looking into buying one or something like it based on "Quite timely" part.
Great Anvil Crucible video!
Thank you for the support.
Great video about Anvil Crucible. I can't wait to watch the next part with yeast harvesting.
I will wait to get the harvesting kit as I keep thinking about opening the bottom but have images of professional brewers being hit by a huge mess like I've seen too many times on UA-cam...very funny when it happens to someone else. I am considering it for this brew once I pull the beer as I love the yeast I pitched which is the Wyeast Ardennes yeast on a Belgian IPA
Great video on the Anvil Crucible
Thanks for the support!
I’d love a 7 gal Anvil Crucible. Looks awesome!
Thank you for the support and help with my ability to pronounce things properly. Much appreciated.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Mike, you’re very welcome! -Jeff
I purchased the Anvil 10.5 largely due to you and Short Circuit Brewing. Now you have me wishing for the Anvil Crucible.
So sorry but as you probably saw recently I bought another 10.5 and at first it was just to do side-by-side comparisons but now I've been thinking I could brew two totally different beers on the same day just to save my self a days worth of time. Brewing for me is a full day event but two brews in two systems would still only be a full day, just a long day like it was recently when I started some of the experiments.
Another great video of the Anvil line of products. I'm really interested in seeing how the Anvil Crucible stacks up to the paces you put it through. I'd like to get away from the buckets and glass fermenters for more flexibility. Thanks again.
Thank you for the support and already testing from Tilt reception to temp differences to pressure vs non-pressure for esters. Those videos will be out in the coming weeks.
Great review of the Anvil Crucible. Would love to add this to my Anvil Foundry.
Thank you and I know my brewing area is slowly turning silver or should I say pretty Stainless Steel everywhere.
the anvil crucible would be a great addition to my home brewery
Thank you for the support. I think it would have many of your friends thinking your next step would be to open a brewery or at least a nano brewery.
I have been looking to buy a Anvil Crucible Thanks for Video.
Thank you for the support and it was a lot nicer than I actually expected, very solid.
I like how you say the cooling system is really cool (no pun intended) lol. I’d consider picking up an Anvil Crucible down the road for sure.
During the current batch at room temp the Anvil conical actually ran 2 degrees below the plastic Fermzilla.
Great Anvil Crucible Video Bitter Reality Brewing!
Thank you for the support and appreciate the feedback.
Anvil Crucible Conical Fermenter, I have a SS Brew Tec stainless conical and love it, however, the anvil has really great features
Thank you for the support. I was shocked at how easy these things are to clean with the SS compared to the glass or plastic ones and that is a huge bonus to me.
Once again thank you for your comprehensive easy to follow videos. I have recently been thinking of stainless fermenters as my old one is about shagged, so very timely 👌 Not sure if the Anvil crucible is in Oz yet but will definitely check them out. Look forward to seeing you fill that bad boy with some yummy brews 👍🍻
Sadly I don't think they are there but someone should be making something comparable but the cost of course would be a concern to me.
Your Anvil crucible looks great
Thank you for the support and I knew it would be quality but was shocked at just how much quality and the overall weight for the price as it is very solid.
Just recently got my hands on an Anvil Foundry 10.5 gallon brewer now I'd like an Anvil Crucible fermenter. Very informative sir.
Thank you for the support and congrats on the Anvil Foundry. You know if you get a Crucible, all your friends will be considering your house their local micro brewery.
@@BitterRealityBrewing The more the merrier 🍻
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Thank you great job
Thank you for the kind words.
Can’t wait to order my anvil crucible fermenters
Thanks for the support! It keeps impressing me during the first fermentation in it.
Awesome video and great explanation of the Anvil Crucible product from Anvil. I'm really surprised how affordable it is. I'm looking to buy a new fermenter, not sure what to get yet.
Thank you for the support, and I was just impressed with the quality and how many add-ons they came out with for this beast.
I have the Anvil 7.5 gallon SS bucket fermenter but would consider the Anvil Crucible with the nice conical bottom for yeast collection. And my bucket fermenter with airlock fits nicely in my chest freezer where I can control the ambient temperature and lager if need be. No need for a cooling kit and constant mess with ice bath and condensation for 2 weeks. And no way this conical fermenter will fit in any chest freezer or mini fridge. I appreciate all the new insights and great video as usual. I also subscribe to short circuit brewing with Brian and he has similar content with focus on Anvil and Blichmann product lines. Thanks again.
Thank you for the support and I have a ton of respect for Brian as he is extremely helpful to everyone and even reached out to me a few times last year with great advice for my channel. I built my own fermentor with a dorm fridge connected to it and the Anvil Crucible actually fits if I didn't need to put a bubbler on it. I am debating about trying it with maybe a L connector to a blow off but it will still be tight. I just did a room fermentation and it stayed around 72 F while my plastic fermzilla sat at 74 for the majority of fermentation (almost identical beers with the same yeast). Thanks again for the support.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Beer N BBQ by Larry also a great channel but he has been busy lately with his job so not uploading content very often. That said, he is doing a live stream this Sunday where he and friends will be brewing and cooking BBQ with giveaways. Maybe you can do the same in the future? Thanks
@@danpierce37 I will try to remember and check him out as I haven't seen him in a while. I actually found him shortly after I started my channel and the videos I found in the beginning where his older videos.
Great video on your Anvil Crucible . I would like to buy one real soon but I only started brewing two weeks ago.
Thank you for the support. I'd hang tight for now as you are still learning the ropes but very happy to have you. If you have any questions in regards to your brewing or need some help just shout.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Thank you for getting back with me and I’ll most definitely get back with you if I run into problems and have to ask a question thank you
Have a hard seltzer fermenting in my Anvil Crucible right now
Great video ANVIL CRUCIBLE
Thank you for the support.
The Anvil Crucible is on the short list for my fermenter update
Thank you for the support. I'm still impressed with how nice it is.
I would love to have an Anvil Crucible.
I didn't expect this at all and was blown away when it arrived so I can only hope to do it justice as it is a great deal nicer in real life compared to just seeing photos.
solid video!
Thank you for the support and Keep up your great work too!
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look like a nice Fermenter
Thank you for the support. Was impressed beyond what I expected it to be.
I’d love to add an Anvil Crucible to my little brewery
It would have your friends drooling... I know I already seem to be gaining new friends I didn't know I had over free beer that I give away locally all the time.
I have the Anvil Crucible. I have been waiting to get the yeast harvesting adapter and the cooling system. Both have been sold out every time I look on the website. One thing I did was switch to a 3 peace. The Bubbler style always runs out of water on me. Also a trick with the legs line up the holes before you push The leg in the snaps going a lot easier than what was on short-circuit brewing. The whole system has been redone from my understanding
The harvesting kit is back in stock but sadly the cooling one isn't and you are probably like me and would prefer to combine to avoid wasting extra money on extra shipping to get them separately. If you see what I did a slow visual of the entire system around the 20 min mark when you get to the top you will see a 3 piece as I prefer them a great deal for ease of cleaning. This was the last few days of a Belgian Rye IPA fermentation going on when I took the photos and the thumbnail. I saw a photo that the pegs for the legs use to be two parts but the ones I got were one part each, so you are probably right on a few things being re-worked. I am dying to do a volume measurement as I totally forgot to check that.
I own a Anvil Crucible and I love it.
What was your first brew in it? I didn't realize how well it would conduct external temps as it has been running 2 F cooler compared to a plastic fermzilla sitting right next to it.
@@BitterRealityBrewing
My first brew in the Anvil Crucible was a Kölsch. I used the cooling system from Anvil to keep the temps in check. It works great.
@@CTP-bbq-HundHutte Awesome and shockingly I've never brewed a Kölsch but I'm considering one with a hint of fruit.
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I’m planning a blackberry Kölsch in a month or so. We have blackberry bushes about ready to pick. I’m really just want a lite berry taste I’m not want to over power the brew
I have the Anvil bucket fermenter it’s been great so far. If I do upgrade it would be to the Anvil Crucible
I'm just so impressed with how easy the SS is to clean and the conductivity of temperatures is a big bonus.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Another thing holding me back from the Anvil Crucible is the size. I can’t fit it in my mini fridge to temp control. I’m In south Florida and I ferment in my garage. Don’t think their cooling system will work in 90 plus temps
Id be curious to try out the Anvil Crucible. Ive yet to buy a conical yet!
Thank you for the support. Almost 7 years brewing and this is my first which as I mentioned I didn't buy this one but now I'm thinking I might need a few with a poor mans chiller and eventually a real glycol setup down the road.
I hope they fix the precision of the measurement marks in the Anvil Crucible.
I do regret not verifying that for everyone but will check as soon as my fermentation is 100% as I'm looking to move the brew soon and check that. Supposedly the entire system had been reworked before I got it, so there is a good chance it is already fixed.
Anvil crucible-looks nice
Thanks for the support.
Awesome video about the Anvil Crucible. Very interested in this to up my game. Wonder how the Tilt will respond being in the stainless steel.
Thank you for the support and this was a concern for me too but I was able to get readings from the fermzilla at up to 20 feet away and from the SS Crucible at about 10 feet away so it did impact it but not a big deal as I usually get pretty close before taking readings.
I want to start all grain brewing. Eventually I would like to have some great equipment lime the Anvil Crucible.
Thanks again for the support. When you are ready to go to All Grain let me know if you have any questions as I promise it isn't hard.
Anvil Crucible. I actually have a couple 7.5 gallon Anvil fermenters (not crucible) being delivered today
Very nice as I am still getting over how easy the SS is to clean compared to plastic or glass. I bet your cleaning days will be a lot easier plus I didn't realize how well this thing conducts temps as it seems to stay about 2 F below a plastic fermzilla sitting right next to it.
The Anvil Crucible is a possible replacement for my plastic conical fermenter.
If you decide to go that way I will tell you that during fermentation the Anvil Crucible ran 2 F degrees cooler than the All Rounder Plastic fermenter sitting side by side. I'll have those videos out over the next few weeks with the first part coming out tomorrow.
Nice review of the Anvil Crucible...do you plan to passivate the fermenter and the new kettle? Very interested to see how you will control temps on this as well.
Thank you for the support and yep. I cleaned both with PBW with 20 minute soaks and then cleaned out with StarSan after the fact which I also let sock for almost 20 minutes. Sadly the first fermentation which looks like it is about done as of today was at room temp. The Crucible actually ran about 2 F cooler compared to a plastic fermzilla sitting right next to it. So of course the fermentation took longer and I had to ramp the temp up 2 F to get it to hurry up as I was getting restless. Considering moving the brews to a keg for dry hopping but haven't decided.
I am wondering how the Anvil Crucible compares to the SS Brewtech conicals…great video breakdown….
Maybe we will get lucky and someone can do a comparison side by side. I do know the Anvil is a bit lower in costs but I also know the Brewtech seem to have a wider range of offerings at this time.
With something like the Anvil Crucible looks a lot more proffesionall then a bucket or glass carboy. Is it also easyer? My bucket taps leak constantly, not the seal but the part where you turn it to pour out the beer. Its annoying to the point to change over to something like this. 😝
Wow, Sorry to hear that as I've never had that issue but I also don't use bucket fermenters but I do have one big mouth bubbler that has the spigot on the bottom but I guess I've been very lucky.
Anvil Crucible is nice but I don’t have a way to control temp in something that size.
I just did a test with it against a pressure fermentation of the same brew and it ran 2 F Degrees cooler compared to the plastic fermenter which was nice. I was doing a Belgian Rye IPA and it stayed at 72 F while the Fermzilla was at 74 F and room temp was 71 F the majority of the time. I did eventually wrap a heating pad to the Anvil Crucible just to warm it up a bit to get the fermentation completed a bit faster and push the yeast to do its clean up process. The SS is VERY conductive.
Serious question here sir, wouldn't it make more sense to install the butterfly valve above the elbow? Otherwise, wouldn't most of your yeast get stuck in the elbow and have very little contact with the wort? I put mine together blindly and it seemed to make sense to me to install the flow regulator above the elbow. I haven't used mine yet, so I'm genuinely curious if there's a reason not to do this.
That is a great question and I like the idea behind it but there are two problems: One you would need the extended legs to avoid having the elbow almost rub the floor and the second reason would be that your average yeast cake aka trub would block your spigot creating issues. As for the yeast, the majority will do its work and the dead cells will fall to the bottom and out of the way. This will allow for enough room to capture the trub/old yeast without blocking the spigot (at least most of the time as we all know there are always exceptions).
I need to buy an Anvil Crucible. Still watching the video, but how are you going to maintain your temperature for fermenting?
Thank you for the support and for the first one I did a room temp to compare it to a plastic fermzilla right next to it. It ran at 72F while the fermzilla stayed at 74 F with a Ardennes Wyeast yeast which was underpitched intentionally. I'm either going to need to get the chiller add-on or see if they will sell me shorter legs 😂 to help it fit into my fementor as it is a bit too tight at the current height by almost 1".
This may be a stupid question but I want to get one of these with the leg extensions so gravity can do its thing when kegging, but......how the hell can I get a 5 gallon bucket up that high to dump the wort in lmfao
Looks like you need a table or ladder. Lately, to help verify my total wort, I've been pulling my wort with a one-gallon measuring pitcher. amzn.to/3MLfYfK I bought this thing just over 2 years ago, and I use it all the time, but originally, it was to help measure my exact water as I quickly realized that 1-gallon jugs of water usually contain a good percentage more based on where you buy them from. Which on a big batch can easily add up to another 3/4 of a gallon of extra water. I will say, keep it away from kids as if someone ran into it while it was full, it is a bit more top-heavy with the longer legs and could easily get knocked over. Plus, use a tiny bit of coconut or olive oil to put the leg extensions on as they are very tight fitting.
@@BitterRealityBrewing good to know, appreciate it!
I was not interested in the Anvil Crucible until I watched this video.
Thank you for the support.
Canada here.... Anvil Crucible
Thank you for the support. Canada...hell that is in my backyard. LOL. Miss downtown Toronto as it was one of my favorite places to visit.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Tronto Tontos!
This is one of the ones on my short list of upgrades for my small brewery, But not being pressure rated is almost a no go for me.
Fully understand but you may want to check a video I have coming up doing a direct head to head comparison of the same beer being fermented under pressure and not under pressure. The experiment isn't even over and I've learned a lot already but the final brew will tell everything. I will give you some insight to the experiment that will be in the final video - First the SS Conical was exactly 2 F Degrees cooler compared to the plastic fermzilla pressure fermenter the entire time sitting side by side. Now of course 2 F warmer temps helped but the pressure fermenter actually fermented at a much faster rate to the point that 2 F degrees temperature couldn't be the only part at play in my opinion. So there is a pro and a con but I will have a lot more info in a future video as it is just finishing fermentation as I write this.
@@BitterRealityBrewing Thanks for the info! Yeah I am just thinking for trying to have the most bang for the buck and having opinions is always a good thing!
@@jaggersbrewingco I'm very Froogle when it comes to money and prefer to pay for great products without spending more than I have to.
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