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For my first BIAB, I used a paint strainer bag and just clipped to the side of my kettle. Worked for me. Before I would just throw the hop pellets into the boil. I may loose a little bit of bitterness using the paint strainer, but the resulting clarity of the beer made it well worth it.

Congrats! You and I are at pretty much the same place on the learning curve. I think just getting used to our equipment, our burner, and our boil-off rates, the consistency will be there.

Hope your first beer turns out as good as mine did!

Update - The Results of My First BIAB and a Question

As you may be aware, a couple of weeks ago I brewed my first all-grain beer ever -- utilizing BIAB. The recipe I used was based on the Amarillo Ale recipe suggested as a good starter beer to use. Amarillo hops were unavailable at my HBS, so I substituted the Falconer's Flight Hop blend released by t...

Yes, I used the Braukaiser method using calcium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. The bag was made using the specifications on this site, so I don't think that is the issue. But everything else could be it. I really do suspect that it has more to do with the pH of my mash. If I am screwing around wit...

One thing to realise, is you've done 20 BIABs, and now you have a good idea of your volumes at various stages... Only took the first two to figure it out. But to be fair to new people, I had in mind exactly what I wanted to determine, and that was the pre-hopping volume, zero-minute volume, and the...

Thanks for all of the helpful comments. As you can tell, I get obsessed with this stuff when I am in a brewing mindset. I agree that I need to keep better records -- particularly of volume levels during the process. I spent last night confirming the measurements of my brew pot and volume of water. I...

Thanks for the helpful hints. I am not going to chuck my bag yet! Looking over my numbers, my pre-boil, mash-out gravity was 1.036 (temp when measured was 40 C) beginning with 41 L of water. I think I need to do a better job of calculating my "boil-off" rate. I was so excited about the brewing proce...

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