Hello everyone,

My name is Matt, I'm still pretty new to brewing. I have 3 extract batches under my belt, but I am very interested in starting to use the BIAB method to gain more control over my process and recipes. I have been in the Marine Corps for 11 years and I am currently stationed in Hawaii. While I love it here, it does make it a little hard and expensive to get ingredients and equipment for my new hobby. I ran across the site while searching for information on the BIAB process and have found it quite informative so far. I look forward to continuing to learn about brewing and improving my process from participating in the forum.

Hello,

I'm Bob and I live in Eureka, CA, USA. I've brewed about 5 extract kits and one all grain / batch sparge batch. I'm looking for something with more variety and less cost than extracts but less work than the typical all grain methods. I think Biab may be the ticket. I found the voile and am in the process of making my first bag. I'm sure I'll have questions.


Bob

Greetings one and all,

I'm Matt and I live in Sydney. I've done a number of kit brews but I really want to delve into the art of all grain and BIAB appears to be the next step in my brewing journey.

Hi All,

Mal here from Western Victoria cropping country (where we grow the barley for your malt!).
Been brewing on and off for twenty years or so, a fairly predictable progression from kits to partial mash to having my first AG BIAB in the fermenter as of yesterday (can't believe how well it went (so far)).
Looking forward to advancing my technique and quality using the advice and resources on this forum.

Cheers.

Mal

Hi Rob here from Hunter valley. Done a couple of brews with the kmart variety coolers fermenter kit. They went pretty good so been looking around for an all grain system. Stumbled across biab so going to give this a go next. Nearly got all the gear. Can't wait.

Hello all. I live in the wild west (Arizona) and have made my first BIAB all grain batch. I have enjoyed extracted brewing for a while and I am liking all-grain equally so.

Hi, I'm new. My name is Will. I live in Santa Rosa, CA. I found the site looking for a brew calculator for BIAB. I still haven't figured out how to download the brew calculator. I've been brewing for a while, BIAB in a 30qt pot for 5gal batches, and now in a 15gal pot for 10gal batches (with a second pot for the sparge).

Will

Hello all, I have been an extract brewer for about a year and was getting ready to make my move to 3 pot all grain when I discovered biab. Looking forward to learning all that I can and making some tasty beer. At first I will be running 5 gallon batches in an electric 11 gallon pot, but I hope to move to 10 gallon batches down the road.

Thanks!

Hi fellow brewers! I'm keen to get into BIAB, having done way to many can kits, its time to improve my skills...

I'm originally from NZ, but have been living in Sydney for 4 years now. Did heaps of brewing across the ditch, mostly just can based with extra grains and hop additions to spice it up.

Looking forward to my first BIAB brew!

Cheers,
Sasha.

Hi!

I've been dabbling around with kit'n'bits and more recently all extract with grains with 10 brews since July and now I'm keen to have a crack at MaxiBIAB. Hoping to thoroughly research this site and make my first BIAB as pain free as possible!

Cheers,

Josh.

My first post to say Hi.

Hi everyone,

I am a reasonably competent brewer; or I was 15 years ago. I'm getting on a bit and the price of a pint in the local has decided me to start brewing again. I can't get a decent pint anyhow these days, and I feel I am being charged the Earth for rubbish.

I'm not exactly sure what 'Brew-in-a-bag' means today, but I suspect it is similar to the procedure I used.

I made a bag from mutton cloth, cut from a roll,
Tied a knot in one end and turned it inside out.
Secured this inside my boiler, and mashed my grains in it.
Then I opened the tap on the boiler and drained the wort into another container.
Then I sparged the mash, and allowed the wort to drain again.
Put the mashed grains on the compost heap.
Then transfer the wort back to the boiler (Left the tap open once only! )
Boil the wort with hops, according to the recipe, then strained through an old nylon net curtain, into the fermenting vessel.

I always did a secondary fermentation before I put the brew into a primed cask. I left it in cask for 14 days before cracking a pint.

I never had a failure, but yes, the beer got better as I went on. I used Dave Lines's 'Beers Like You Buy', and modified the recipes as I went along, because I wanted better beer than I could buy!

So is that more or less 'brew-in-a-bag' I ask myself?

Anyhow, I am sure someone will tell me it's more sophisticated now, and I am here to learn, so Hello to all and it's nice to be here.

OB wan c'nardly

joshua wrote:Good Day OldBrewer, Welcome to the Site, Very close to True BIAB..Normally the grain bag goes into another container to sparge, This allows the wort to start to boil sooner. Then the Sparge water is added, as space in the kettle allows.
Only 1 other thing, Mutton cloth will start to fall apart after a few brews, thats why we use Polyester voile.

Enough being Critical, You have made a good BIAB system on your own, WELL DONE, Sir. If you have other Ideas, or thought of other ways to go BIAB, Please post, Our site likes new Ideas!

Thank you Joshua.

Just for information,

When I stopped brewing, after countless brews, the mutton-cloth 'bag' was still quite sound. The net curtain started to go a bit, but there was plenty of that as my wife had thrown them out for new.

I still have some of the mutton cloth in my workshop, where it is used for all kinds of jobs. Perhaps it was good quality mutton cloth, or maybe it was due to the fact I always soaked it in cold, clean water after each brew! Being a bit of a meanie you see, I wanted the bag to last.

I understand what you mean about using another container to sparge, but as I said I am patient old buffer, so I don't mind a slight wait to bring the wort back up to temperature.
The only drawback with home brewing is that I have to do it in a shed, out of the house. SWMBO doesn't like the smell of boiling hoppy, wort. Maybe I should understand. I don't like the smell of pickling vinegar when that's being boiled!

Hi,

New BIAB brewer here from Vermont (USA) with just 20 or so extract/partial mash batches under my belt. Have all the stuff for PM including a huge reusable muslin bag, so I'm looking into doing small (2.5 gallons) AG BIAB. I'm planning on moving up to a 10 gallon pot in a few months so I can do full boil extract and full batch BIAB. I'm hoping to get the BIAB process down then when I get the bigger setup maybe not have as many mistakes