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Lambert.... man thanks..... 100% correct.
Pot is 40cm x 40cm.... can't believe I F'ed that up... and I am an engineer!

Thanks... this will make life easier.!

Forum: BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members
Topic: Is what I bottle ... how it will taste...
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13 years ago
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Ok... my pot is 51L... so it not big enough to do this brew in one hit. So I will add as much water as i can for the mash ...I will hold back 8l and do a sparge up to a pre boil volume of 47.1 liters... sound OK? I may need to use a differnt yeast etc depending on what the loac HBS has. But this loo...

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PistolPatch wrote:Another goodie would be LloydieP's Krispy Kolsch. That is a very easy drinking beer. Blonde ale might also be worth a try (similiar style to the cream ale that hashie mentioned above.)

I will aslo be trying these... cheers

It will come down to whats avalible in NZ.

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Dukebrewer, if you want an easy drinker, that's not over hopped hav a go at this cream ale . I generally make this as my summer beer as you can just knock it down while still enjoying the flavour. In that recipe it calls for "Basmati rice", any rice can be used, in fact standard long grain white ri...

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Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the great replies. My first BIAB which I tried at 9days and tasted like cats piss.... a week and a bit later the taste has mellowed to the point this is a nice beer. Put it this way I am able to drink it and its OK. I actually like it!. It was a NZ pale ale. As f...

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Topic: Is what I bottle ... how it will taste...
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13 years ago
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The following is a recipe that I would like to brew. The calculator says 6.2kg grain to hit the OG 1.046 while the recipe says 4.5kg. 23l brew what do I use? Style English Best (Special) Bitter Method All Grain Original Gravity 1.046 Final Gravity 1.012 Alcohol Content 4.41% Efficiency 70% Total IBU...

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Topic: Use this thread to convert recipes to suit your equipment...
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Aces, thanks for the reply.
I am in NZ and the local HBS is very good, I tend to buy draght, lager beers.
The LHBS do BIAB but do the sparge thing and I sem to stuff up the volumes, where the BIAB calculator was great.

my brew folder is at work... will list recipie tomorrow.
cheers

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Is what I bottle ... how it will taste...

Been a run of the mill, average guy that like plain average common beer. I have done 4 BIAB brews and I have to say they taste... well nothing like I am used to. No extract twang... but at least the extract beer tasted like normal beer. Ok... I am talking about the flat beer from the fermemnter x3 a...

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Topic: Is what I bottle ... how it will taste...
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13 years ago
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Thanks guys just what i wanted to hear.
My first brew I did full water volume.. my pot is 50l and the end volume was spot on thanks to the calculator. Spoke with LBS and they advised sparge, add lid etc. End result was I had no idea what volume i would end up with etc.

So thanks.

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Topic: Adding all the water at start of mash? or sparge?...
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Adding all the water at start of mash? or sparge?...

Basiaclly I am wanting to know if there is much differance in adding all the water before the mash or sparging with extra water? Does it make much differance? Seems easier to use just the one pot... add all the water and then do no sparge but some of the recipies I have step mash and then sparge... ...

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Topic: Adding all the water at start of mash? or sparge?...
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Giday, This is my first post and i am looking forward to doing my first BIAB brew. I have done a few exstact kit beers while I have been assembling my BIAB system and now that it is ready to go i am looking for a recipie to use. I have done a lot of reading and the more i read the more i realsie I d...

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