waterskj wrote:Hi!!

Brewing in Waterdown Ontario, Canada. Gearing up to make my first BIAB soon..

OK by "gearing up" I guess I just mean getting my wife to sew up a BIAB bag for me and waiting for my homebrew supplier to re-open after christmas break so I can get some grains...

From everything I am reading it should be just that simple to convert me from Extract \w specialty grains to all grain ...

I have been brewing for a total of ~5 years - started with Coopers kits on the stove in my apartment in Montreal - When I was partial boiling I would open my apartment door (1st floor) shovel up some snow drop my pot in the pile, pull up a chair - light a cigar and wait for the wort to cool - right on the corner of Rene Levesque Blvd and Hotel de Ville-

After a couple of moves and a small hiatus while living in a condo (with swmbo) - I now am a garage brewer with Propane burner and 50L pot

I mostly like IPA's, Stouts but fiddle with Canadian style Ale's for my friends that are not converted yet..

I currently bottle but would like to get into Kegging -

I hope to get ideas, advice, methods from this web site. I hope that occasionally I can lend my experiances to brewers with questions/ideas/opinions

Thanks

Shane

blyons wrote:After travelling through Belgium and France last year I want to try and replicate some of the beers I love (Kasteel #1)

Oldbrewer wrote: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