Peco EB1

[giacomo]

I'm planning to enhance my (minimal) brewing equipment by buying a Peco EB1 kettle and mashing bin. Anyone has any experience with them, or opinions to share?

[giacomo]

Mh..... I'll take that as a "no"

[johnrm]

Hi GM,
Looks like a fermenter with a thermostat kettle attached - like an electrim boiler.
I read a book that suggests doing a dry run to establish correct mash temp.
I would be inclined to wrap in a quilt when mashing.
I'm sure it would work well with a BIAB bag.

[Bazza]

I have the old electrim version and as a boiler it was a pile of shite. Kept cutting out over 90 degrees so that 1 hour boils were taking me over 3 hours on occasion. The hbc I got it from sent me a replacement element for free but this was only marginally better. In the end I bored a second hole and stuck a cheapo Tesco kettle element in it and never looked back. The supplied element is good for getting water or wort up to 90 degrees quickly but then starts cutting out so I switch to the tesco element to complete the boil. I have her wrapped in foil so now she's pretty good as a boiler but 90 quid was a lot given the only useful part was the plastic bucket. I've never used it for mashing, in fact I blew the mashing circuitry some time back. The company I bought it from now advertise it as a hlt only which says it all.

Having said all that,  they can only have improved in the last 4 years 

Hope this helps,

-Barry