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i aim for 13L beer in a 19L pot using 3kg (ish) of grain no pulley used no mash out i batch sparge i squeeze by put the pot on the floor (20L)at end of mash lift bag an let drain, twist a bit to squeeze etc drop bag into 2nd pot and sparge by adding +-2L hot water lift bag & drain again, tip wort ro...

bottled both batches tonight to make space for a Sazz Pilsner i had no-chilled massive taste difference in the two out of the fermentor cold at about 5 deg c , i late dry hopped the 2nd batch with about 10g of amarillo 3/4 days ago and then cold crashed them both for a few days. the dry hopped one h...

Am i a bad BIAB'er ?

this is mostly about what ends up in my no-chill cube and fermentor i take cleaning and temp control seriously i am up to about BIAB brew 7... today i did a "pilsner", mostly a cheap experiment as i had some SAZZ in the freezer from some other experiments this is my "normal" procedure boil for 70 mi...

i know starsan seems expensive but it's not really when you consider your other costs of the brew. i am not sure i would risk $1 worth of starsan with $30+ (and a few hours time) each all grain brew by having 5L of starsan sitting around between brews and possibly not effectively sanitizing i keep a...

ran the 2nd brew today, and surprisingly (to me) the numbers were very much the same i wrote down the same pre and post boil numbers as the other day i increased the later hops additions by 1 grm it filled the "cube" to about the same level, and i topped up with 1L of boiling water to "fill" so boil...

Kettle ball-valves can be potential infection sites believe it or not so... My only suggestion is that you pull it apart from time to time and then clean and sanitise it. Thanks PP yeah it gets a full clean and removal each batch i have to use a little thread tape so that "infection zone" concerns ...

So with this no chill method, is their any harm in aiding the cooldown by putting the cube in a bath? Would you still have to alter hop additions? general consensus is that normall procedure is to let the hot wort pasteurize the cube for a bit (from the heat). some people then further chill (slow c...

Gave this one a go today, being new to BIAB i am trying to keep it simple current idea is to do a +-13L batch in the 19l BIGW pot, buy enough grain to do a 23-26L batch and split into 2 back to back batches. current ferment fridge set up is using two cube's rather than tipping both into the one ferm...

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