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   1. First BIAB / First All Grain

      by jedski07, 14 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      Well now the dust and trub is settling and the fermentation is well under way.
      
      It was my first brew and wasnt expecting things to go to plan so I'm sitting happy to have it under belt and excited to see how it turns out.
      I have to learning expirences to imrpove next time around then my focus will turn to the fermentation and moving to kegging.
      
      Two areas to improve;
      1) Mashing temp needs to be maintained better. I'm guessing this is the main reason my OG was way off as it was down around...

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      x2 to what PP said.
      
      I have been using BS2 since its release and have finally dialed it in so that the numbers match my actual real world results. The BeerSmith2 Guide for BIABrewers thread here got me headed in the proper direction and after several additional tweaks and fudging some of the settings I have it working at a point that I am confident in most of its calculations. I still do not trust the IBU calculations (a point of contention that all of us no-chillers share) but the other tools...
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      thughes
      14 years ago

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