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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 le...

New 45L pot and OTS element

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 l...

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 ...

Yeah, well this was far from the only policy our big parent company shoved down our throats. They'd bought our business 15 years earlier, and let us successfully run ourselves, but suddenly got the idea we should be a lot bigger, so started trying to run our company like they run theirs. What they a...

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 th...

Don't worry about my planning. I'm trying to find 3-4 recipes to make an online grains order now, which will keep me busy. Next week I'll be doing my 2nd AG recipe, so there isn't much time to kill before I'm at it again. In the mean time, I can make an immersion chiller, which I'm seriously conside...

This thing has had a steady ferment for 5 days. Not as wild as Coopers kit gets 30 hours after pitching, but then Coopers is usually finished by now too. That's probably a good thing to be honest. But I couldn't resist taking a sample. Even though I decided to draw a little and not use that, I drank...

I decided to go ahead and do the 2nd half of my grains and put it in the same fermenter on Friday night. The process was a lot more relaxing this time. I tweaked a little due to what PP said, a little more water in the mash, a little less in the sparge. Mash went well, no noticable temp drop over 90...

Thanks for the responses, I had PP's response before attempting, so I didn't re-hydrate, but didn't change anything else for now. Here's how it went. I'd done a wet run the night before, so knew a little about my stove, heat loss and chilling. I had little patience when I got home, so the stove and ...

1st BIAB tonight

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/pa...

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