Okay well I got myself a HDPE container from Grain and Grape after viewing the BIAB demo they had there on Saturday. Just wanting to know can I use one of those squeezy hand siphon pumps you get from the hardware store to siphon my beer from the pot to the HDPE cube?

Thanks Sigurdur. I've already had my grain mixed for 10 litres so I guess Im going to have to sparge with the extra 2 litres.But I at least understand now what figures I need to be looking at.

So just to clarify this if I was going to do a mini BIAB in my 19 litre pot and I put 10 litres into the calculator and it gives me these figures below. How much water do I put in my pot to start with? 17.45 litres? Brew Length 10.00 lts How much beer you want to end up with. Fermenter Trub* 0.80 lt...

Thanks Sigurdur, so in other words if Im doing Maxi-BIAB I shouldnt really use this calculator anyway and just go with whatever the recipe says because Im going to add water to bring it up to the recipes total volume once in the fermenter anyway?

Im having problems trying to understand the calculator spreadsheet if someone could please explain a few things to me. If I input a figure into brew length of 20 litres it says my water required is 31.26 litres. Im doing this in a 19 litre pot. It also says my end of boil volume is 23.60 litres. Eve...

Thanks for the help stux (and the correction to my sum..lol) What exactly is a hdpe cube? Is that one of those 25 litre blue containers with the tap at the bottom? So do you pour your wort in there and wait until it cools then pour it out via the tap into your fermenter? I'm assuming this method wou...

Okay one more question...Just say I have 17 litres and my post boil SG is very high and when doing my calculations I need to add say 8 litres of water to bring my target gravity down to my recipes limit. 17+8 = 25 litres and my fermenter is only 23 litres. Do I simply throw out the excess? So only a...

The big trick is not to over-sparge and end up with more liquid that you can fit in your pot, or boil off ;) Hello Im new to BIAB and want to give it a try but have a couple of questions. If I start with a 19 litre pot and pull my bag out to Sparge and end up with say 15 litres in my pot. Then I sp...

1. Where are you from? Im from Aspendale Gardens in the SE Burbs of Melbourne 2. How did you stumble across the site? Followed a link from Aussiehomebrewer.com in a thread about BIAB 3. What you think of it so far? Great informative articles on BIAB 4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how l...