Thanks for your comments, I am almost certainly going to heat water first but was interested to know if there was any effect on the grain conversion.
I will let you know how I get on in due course as I am having a vessel made for me.

Hi have been lurking for a while planning first venture into BIAB and note initial guide suggested grain into bag in cold water and then heat to mash temp, later advice now seems heat water to mash temp then add bag and then stir in grains. Has anyone established if there are good reasons for either...

Seemed fairly painless except after linking back from email received I was still not able to access some of the downloads. However when I read all the intro sections I realised that a first post is needed for full registration. Probably a few others like me want to dive straight in and are used to n...

hello from Bath UK
was aiming for starting traditional AG after gap of 35 years (don't ask..) but now probably going BIAB after reading this site extensively.