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   1. New 45L pot and OTS element

      by sb944, 12 years ago in Electric BIAB

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      First real BIAB down. It was a 5kg grain bill, a bit smaller than my last two pot attempt, this time with my new 45L SS pot, 2400W over the side element and a gas stove as a booster to speed things up. I have to say, the OTS element works wonders for this size pot.
      
      First things first, the pot is a lot bigger, so I now see why people get hoses going from their hot water taps, because to fill this I had to put it in my bath, and it's a heavy brute to get back to the kitchen, and onto the stove....

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      I guess when I said work on accuracy, I meant like knowing how much water I'll lose with my element and my pot, with my tap water, in my brew area, as it would differ to other setups by quite a bit I'm sure. I had more water than I thought I'd have last time, so I planned to use just a little bit less this time, and not pour the trub in.
      
      And so I had a 2nd go at it this week. Looking at your 3 points, I improved on each of these points. I realised the bag is easier to hold over a pot on the...
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   2. 2 pot attempt (not pretty)

      by sb944, 12 years ago in Stove-top BIAB (also known as Mini-BIAB)

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      OK, so a little primer. I got 2 Big W 19L pots together, took an AG recipe, scaled it down to 11.5L batches through BIABacus, and got great results. I then did it all again the next night, and added it to the first batch, for a full sized ferment, which is now in the bottle and tasting nice.
      
      The following week, I was getting my ideas together, including building an immersion chiller. It didn't take long, and I still had an hour to kill... I realized I still had some specialty grain 1.25kg and...

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      Brew #3 is done, and will be the last 2 pot attempt for a while if I can avoid it. I did change a couple of things, and this one went much smoother. I wasn't thrilled with mashing with 2 pots and 2 bags, so came up with the idea to use a 2nd fermenter I had to mash in. It is the Coopers DIY one, so was filled with around 27L of water, then about 6kg of grain and one big swiss voille was put in it, virtually full at that point. Insulated it up, the mash went perfectly well. I heated one of my...
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   3. 1st BIAB tonight

      by sb944, 12 years ago in Stove-top BIAB (also known as Mini-BIAB)

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      Well, feeling more than inspired right now to have a crack at all grain. Some background, I've got 2 Coopers DIY kits, 3 batches in the original, and 4th in the new one, ready to be bottled. But reading up a lot on AHB and here, has got me overly excited about doing a real brew. Skipped extract/partial/hops additions, straight into mini-biab. I decided to do a small sparge, not necessary, but I do want to up batch size soon (5.5 hours for a slab is a bit much), so I'd like to test it out....

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      So, I am drinking 2 kit beers, and now have this batch about 1 week in the bottle. The kit ones have definitely benefited from time in the bottle, better this week than last week etc, no noticeable twang now, just nice bitter beers with decent carbonation, decent aftertaste etc. I'd happily drink these compared with some of my previous bottle shop purchases. I also tried 2 bottles of this batch, and it's in a completely different league. Firstly, there are no problems with it, it tastes clean,...
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