First BIAB & All Grain Under My Belt

Hi Guy's, Well, I finally did it. I have gone over to the dark side. I did my first ALL GRAIN and it was the BIAB method. Thanks for all the information I found on this site, it helped greatly. I have been reading up on BIAB so much that when I finally did it last Saturday July 2, 2011 that I really had no worries and was very comfortable with the process thanks to the information on this site. I did the Krispy Kolsch recipe and it turned out great, the only thing that worried me at all was the fact that I ended up with 7.5 gallons into my primary, I think I had a much less evaporation level due to using a Keggle instead of a Straight Sided Pot with a larger diameter, that the recipe was designed for. I did get complete conversion and I hit my OG within 0.001, I figured I must have done pretty good on my efficiency to get that close with the extra gallon into the primary. I did use the Excel Spreadsheet and from what I gathered, I hit 72% Efficiency. I am not a hundred percent confident though that I entered everything correctly, since it was my first time. Any way, the Beer was just transfered to my secondary and it is very clean and smells very good, I can't wait to taste it, I will leave it in the secondary for 2 weeks, then bottle age it for about 2 weeks before I try my first one to see if it's carbonated yet.

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Thanks guy's. I am looking forward to the next one already. I am going to do the Amarillo Pale Ale next, I have not had a Hoppy beer for a while and that sounds good with the hot weather here for the summer. Although this BIAB technique does have it's negatives. I don't have enough bottles I will have to go out and get some more now. Darn, I hate spending time at the Brew store. Have a good one guy's.

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