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   1. First one in the fermenter

      by bobzed57, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Yesterday I ran my first BIAB after a few years extract brewing. I used both Beersmith2 and the BIAB calculator as guides. I made Dr Smurto's Ale as it had a good write up around the traps and my local home brew man said it would be a good one to start with.
      
      Followed the recipe and this morning the air lock was bubbling away happily. A couple of observations: It's a little difficult to hit the mash temps spot on with a gas burner although I sailed through by a couple of degrees starting the...

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      Hey sorry to give this thread a bump:
      
      But did we get a result to the comparisson Bobzed?
      
      *I'm waiting to taste my second batch of NRB's Amarillo APA - first batch I screwed up the hop additions and didn't have a vigorous enough boil and had too much wort for the cube. 2nd batch went smoothly. Have almost finished the first batch was so delicious have save a bottle to compare with no 2.
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      nu_brew
      13 years ago
   2. How fast can I/should I chill?

      by bobzed57, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Getting my kit together and first BIAB is not far away. I've been trawling through the site and looking at different methods of chilling. I have an immersion chiller on the way and note that some folk agitate the chiller to improve cooling efficiency. I've even seen posts discussing mechanical agitation to speed the chilling.
      
      That said, I have a glycol temprite keg system with a flooded font. Would it be OK to tap into the glycol system (food grade) and run it through the chiller? It seems to...

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      Thanks all
      
      I might be over-thinking this BIAB thing and should probably have a couple of goes first and see how I go.
      
      Cheers
      
      Bob
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      bobzed57
      14 years ago
   3. Scaling Brews

      by bobzed57, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hi All
      
      First post after the initial registration, so here goes.
      
      As a long time extract brewer, having made about 90 brews, two of which only were the same recipe, I though that when moving to BIAB I would develop maybe half a dozen favourite recipes and brew them regularly. While experimenting with styles, I don't really want to brew 23 litre batches and then have to drink it all while waiting to develop or tweak the recipe. Accordingly, I thought I would do a batch of wort, and divide it...

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      Thanks
      
      Once I have a couple of full sized brews down, I'll explore some of the smaller batches. It seems most brewing software has options for scaling recipes, so might check them out.
      
      Bob
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      bobzed57
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