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Brewer's Edge Mash and Boil Review #homebrew #electricbrewing #ebiab #biab #beer #craftbeer #allgrain

The Brewer’s Edge Mash and Boil is one of the many coffee urn based electric BIAB systems available these days. At $299.99 it comes in at the cheapest of them all. It is short a pump but does have one of the higher boiling capacities without going to 240v.

Let’s start with the features. The Mash and Boil holds up to 16 pounds of grain. Its total capacity volume wise is 7.5 gallons but I’d limit…

Electric BIAB Systems Comparison #homebrew #homebrewing #BIAB #beer #craftbeer #electricbrewing

Ultimately I want to have a three vessel electric system setup for my brewhouse. Unfortunately my current house doesn’t offer an outbuilding or basement for a dedicated brewery space. I could always build one in my garage but I don’t want to deal with moving it in a few years so I’ve decided to buy one of the electric BIAB systems in the meantime for bad weather days and to fight the winter brew…

50 AMP Supply to the brew rig. It was purpose built from the ground up over a 4 year period to be a No Sparge a.k.a. (BIAB) system. 3 batches made so far with each batch better than the previous. 75% efficiency without adding any additional base malts (I just follow) the recipe “as is”. Currently making all beers using the recipe’s found in Jamil’s book – Brewing Classic Styles (80 styles).

Boiling Equipment: 5500 Watt – 15.5 Gallon Keggle Beer Bottling Gear: Bench Top Capper Fermentation Vessels and Equipment: 7.9 Gallon Speidel Plastic Tank Wort Chillers: SS Plate Chiller – 30 Plates Plumbing, Pumps and Hardware: 100% hard plumb (copper & stainless) CIP system, March high-flow pumps, in-line strainer, in-line strike water heater (4500 watts), and external HERMS coil. Measuring, Testing,& Stirring Devices: Hydrometer and Refractometer Yeast Equipment: 2000ml flask and magnetic stir plate Cleansers and Sanitizers: Five Star – PBW and Sanitizer

For safety reasons I decided to hire an electrician to install a 4 wire 220 volt 30 amp GFCI breaker and run the line to a receptacle near the location of the EBC-SV brew rig controller.

The EBC-SV is the heart of the eBIAB system it runs the Chugger pump and regulates the output of the heating element based on feedback from the temperature probe connected at the kettle lid.

The EBC-SV was all setup and ready to go right out of the box all it needed was to be plugged into a 220 volt outlet in order to use it.

Boiling Equipment: 15 gallon High Gravity EBC-SV controller and 220v 4500w ultra low density heating elelment Beer Bottling Gear: Blichmann BeerGun and bench top bottle capper Fermentation Vessels and Equipment: 6.5 gallon Ale Pails Wort Chillers: Convoluted Counter-Flow Plumbing, Pumps, and Hardware: Chugger pump with metal head Yeast Equipment: 5 liter Erhlenmeyer flask and electric stir plate Cleansers and Sanitizers: StarSan and Powdered Brewery Wash

220 volt electric BIAB brew rig using overnight no chill. My brew day is as short and simple as possible with an all grain batch. Using a liquid yeast starter on a stir plate from the wort it will go into the next day, along with pure O2 aeration consistently provides clean exceptionally tasty brew.

Boiling Equipment: 16 gallon keggle Fermentation Vessels and Equipment: Better bottles and temp controlled ferm fridge Wort Chillers: No chill