This will be my first ever brew, but I think I'd like to just use kit ingredients and BIAB it, using either or both my SVS (sous vide supreme), Sansaire, and/or water from an Zojirushi electric water dispenser (4L) + Hario pour-over (coffee) kettle ...
As for related analog stuff, I have a 23 qt SS double boiler that I bought some time back for making cheese, and I have a 8 qt SS pot, and I have a 7 qt CI french oven ... and I have a SS strainer etc ...
I have some muslin bags, two gal jug fermenter's, w/ airlocks, an auto siphon, some pH5.2, an H meter, a set of bottles, caps, and a capper ...
I also have, from some soda experiments in the past, a CO2 tank w/ regulator, and a couple of those carbonator caps (metal works much better than plastic) for 2L PET bottles ...
Next week I'll have a 3rd gal jug fermenter, and a 8 qt SS pot, StarSan, some of those whirf tablets, fermcap, biofine, a thief, and a 4th and 5th kit ...
I feel like I could mash-in to a prev cleaned and sanitized sous vide supreme w/ 160F water in a muslin bag, changing target temp to 152F upon introducing the grain mixture for 60-90 mins, stirring the water a bit, then lifting out the bag and spinning/swinging it a bit, and placing it in a strainer over an 8 qt SS pot on the stove, and then sparging additional water from the Zoji set at 174F, by way of the Hario kettle I use for pour over coffee, over the bag of grains, until I have a gallon plus (extra to evap) in the pot for the boil ...
I have 4 bags of ice in coolers, here, now ...
I figured after 60 min boil, I'd put the pot in the sink w/ ice-water, bring it down low 65F, and then auto-siphon it into a fermenter jug w/ a blow-off tube ...
I will have a cool bag, but not until mid-week, so for this batch I'd have to just set the fermenter in a cooler w/ a frozen 1L of water to get under my house temp of 72-74F ...
I have three devices which can provide temp-controlled water, a host of temp probes from bbq, and so I really think I can just dial it in and give it hell the first time BIAB ...
Am I crazy? ...
I mean, I'm not afraid of modifying my 23 qt SS double boiler to have some kit, in fact, I have the step-cutting bits leftover from modifying my Weber kettles ...
GM's Journey To Electric BIAB
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