My first BIAB is busy fermenting. Brewed on Saturday using a 50L Urn. Planned on using 42L for mashing, but only filled up to 40L when i saw possible overflowing problems.
Mashed 7.5Kg of grain and expected around 1.056 OG and hit 1.055 (Sparged with 2L 70C water and 90min boil). Was worried that the home made bag might give in with the big load but it held nicely.
Used an immersion chiller to about 30C and dumped the whole kettle in my conical fermentation vessel. Not worried about haze as i plan on getting a beer filter and kegging solution in the near future.
So the BIAB parts went extremely well.
I have a bit of a problem with an overly active fermentation. I am usually able to keep the temp in my garage to 22C, but we are currently in the middle of a heat wave and the room temp is sitting at 25C. After 36 hours i’m down to 1.022 SG. Thought it would be a bit slower. There is very little Kräusen left and a lot of yeast has settled at the bottom. Still looks active, and should be done soon. I am a bit worried about the yeast producing off flavours at the higher temp. I’ll start draining dead yeast after 48 hours, do a little bit every day until day 7 and then prime and bottle.
Thanks to all for contributing to this forum. It was a very easy BIAB experience, i just hope i can avoid a banana flavoured beer
." SO-5 handles a lot. Should be tops loobrew!