Sure thing Joshua, thanks. I'll try the no chill method on my next batch if the tap water is still only about 72F. It took about 45 min. to get from boiling down to aboput 76F for the pitching temp with my ss wort chiller in a soapstone sink with all the ice I had and cool packs in a kinda slurry. T...

All these ideas get a prost from me! Great info to save my hands and too much fatigue when all is said and done.

I will be trying the dunk sparge technique in my 6.5 gallon bucket fermenter next time around. It was messy squeezing and lifting so much over the kettle. I over did it really. I could have chopped the 5 hour brew session into 4 hours only adding one extra hour on top of my extract batches.

Welcome dj and congratulations on your first BIAB. And a saison to boot :o. If your kettle is big enough, with BIAB, try and do it full-volume. This allows you to avoid the hassle of active sparging. Preliminary experiments on side by side brews, seem to be showing that there is only a tiny gain in...

Good evening everyone! Sorta novice brewer here with many extract batches under my belt and just performed my first BIAB saison with a 79 % mash efficiency. It was a little difficult due to over sparging and a less than ideal temp of my cold water tap to my wort chiller but all in all it was a very ...