Hi all, I live just north of Brisbane in Aust and started homebrewing about 2.5years ago. The BIAB thing started about 1.5 years ago from thinking like most kit brewers in wanting to make a better tasting beer. I currently use the 19lt pot method with a burner doing high gravity mashes with mixed results(too much experimenting) however have made some really nice beers.
As I like to keep it CHEEP, this is the way to go for me and I love that I found this forum.
I am currently looking at the 50lt Keggle option to make it even more simple and ultimately less messy as I often end up with lots of sticky floor at the end of a brew.
Looking forward to conversing with many of you....

Hey everybody.

I've been brewing for the past four years, starting off with Festa Brew kits, then extract/steeping grains, moved to partial mash with late extract additions (near full boil) and have recently moved to All-Grain BIAB brewing with a 58L keggle and custom bag. I'm two brews in now and have a few questions which I'll post a bit later. I'm located just outside of Halifax, NS Canada and look forward to gaining some new insight into the BIAB method.

Thanks,

Derek

Hi All,

I'm from Richmond, VA in the states and have been brewing for about 1/2 a year. (Thanks to my lovely daughters for the Mr. Beer!) I brewed those 2 kits and caught the bug. Since then I brewed a Brown Ale (Elbro Nerkte) in the Mr. Beer fermenter, then a slightly altered recipe of the same in a large glass carboy. I have don 2 other extract with specialty grains since then. I was trying to figure out my equipment and space needs to go all grain found out about BIAB. and decidsed this would be an easy way to try. Last weekend, I did a test 1/2 batch and it is bubbling away in my basement. Looking forward to tasting it and trying new recipes.

Cheers,

Hunter

Hi everyone!

Just a little 'hi' from Norway.
I am pushing 40 and its been 20 years since I brewed anything.
At the time it was Kits that were the "norm".
I just recently took up brewing again and started with kits from Coopers.
Oh man... I am sorry, but how did I manage to like this when I was younger....

So I upgraded to extract brewing pretty quickly and got decent results.
The next logical step is ofcourse allgrain.

Just by concidence I heard about this thing called BIAB.
Intrigued, I decided to check it out.

:-)

Long story short. I am now brewing BIAB and loving it
I only got 5 BIAB brews under my belt at the moment, so I am still pretty new at this.

Hi all
I have been brewing kits for the last 2 years. A couple of months age i heard about BIAB and decided to give it a go.
I bought 12 meters of 10mm copper for €18 to make a chiller with the fittings and hose added in it cost about €25.
I bought enough voile for the bag for €5 and had enough to make a hop bag which i hang from a frame made out of 2 wire coat hangers. I use a 19l pot which I got for nothing so the move cost about €30.
Not bad considering the 2 batches i have done so far cost less than €10 each allowing for ingerients, sanatation and power I would say approx €9.
I decided to do a few single hop single malts first to learn the flavors and effects of both hoops and malt
I have brewed a marris otter and cascade SMASH last week and dident get a vigrous boil the smell was fantastic something i never got from kits, and this week I brewed a Vienna Cascade smash getting the pot over 2 gas burners and got a decent boil. Both approx 12 liters into the fermenter I expext to get at least 10L into the bottle from each batch as there was a lot of trub that gor into the fermenters.
When I get this bottled I plan to use both grains again but replace the hops with fuggles.
The first took a little over 5 hours the second alittle over 4 from flame on to end of clean up. I managed to do a bit of house work during the brewing session (my wife thinks I'm brillent hope she still thinks so after a few dozen brews).

I have 3-4 weeks before my fermenters are free again so know i can look around here with a little more understanding and hope fully pick up a few ideas on how to improve my skills.

G'day all
After lots of research (read that as approval from the war ministry) I am making the step from kit brewing to BIAB. This morning I kegged my last big batch (5 kegs worth) of beer from kits and tthose fermentors are going to be sitting empty until I get the gear organised and get my first BIAB on the go (am hoping that will be next week). I'm also hoping that I'll be able to talk my sister, a rather dab hand with an overlocker, into making a couple of bags for me (have to hit Spotlight in the next day or two).
I would like to give all the long term BIABers a great big thank you for, not only, developing the system but putting the information out there for all us newbies.

First BIAB tomorrow ...

Hi, I am Jawe.
I come from Taiwan. (English is not my native language)
I used to brew by infusion mash + batch sparge.
Then I tried BIAB and I love it.

Hi All,

I am from Harrow, London. I have been brewing with kits for almost a year and a half, and the more I read about homebrew, the more I feel I need to step up to BIAB. Reading around on another forum lead me to this forum and I am hoping that reading and learning here will give me the confidence to take the step up.
I like drink ales like Speckled Hen and Abbots ale, and I hope to one day be able to make something very similar to either of those two .

Thanks.
Paresh

Hello,
My name's Larry and I live in San Diego, California. I went the the BIAB seminar at NHC 2012 and want to give it a try.
I've been brewing all grain for about 5 years. I'm a member of Quaff.org, one of the local homebrew clubs.
Right now I'm trying to find a bag to use with my 10G pot. I want to brew a porter this weekend and would like to the biab method.
Thanks,
larry

How well will a large grain bag work? Good enough to try?
Thanks,
Larry

Hello all,

My name is Todd and I hail from Cleveland, Ohio. I have been brewing on and off for 5 years, mostly kits and extract recipes. Experimented with one AG recipe and would like to simplify (I like easy!) so want to move to BIAB for now. Waiting on a 50 quart vessel and a bag and then I am planning on brewing my first BIAB batch!

Looks like a wealth of information here, I am sure I will be a frequent visitor.