Hello. I'm from California and have been brewing off and on for 15 years. I'm an extract brewer who slowly stared adding more and more speciality grains. I'm prepping for a fairly big brew (relatively) straight out of "North American Clone Brews" and accidentally gave my local brew shop the "mini-mash" grain list. After getting home and realizing what I did, I started reading over the mini-mash instructions. Sparge? That's a foreign word. I wondered why I couldn't just steep and remove the grains in a grain bag. After investigating a bit, I ended up here. I'm now feeling pretty confident that my 7.75 lb of grains won't go to waste

Hi, I'm Mike from London, UK. I've been extract brewing for a few years, and came across BIAB while looking for info on simple all grain brewing. Haven't attempted it but looking forward to reading through the forum for tips, and giving it a go!

Cheers, Mike

Hi

I am Michael from Perth, WA. I was interested in a cheap and easy way to go AG and thats what led me here. Im planning on geting a 50l Kettle on the weekend!

- Michael

Just registered after being reffered from AHB! Didnt even know this existed..

about to BIAB for the first time this weekend.. Hoping it goes well....

It's been more then 20 years since I last brewed. I specialized in all grain german style lagers. I had to make a lot of my equipment so I could step mash 10 gal. all grain brews. A typical brewing session could take 10-12 hours before I pitched the yeast and cleaned up all that equipment, which is one of the reasons I got burnt out on brewing. The BIAB process sounds great, I think I have most of the equipment I need to make 5 gallon batches. I still have a 15 gallon kettle with false bottom and drain valve a propane burner and an immersion chiller. I hope this site will help guide me through my first brew in 2 decades!

dick wrote:G'day DSJ

Welcome to the site. Hope all goes well with your first BIAB. Let us all know how it goes.

Cheers
Dick

it went surprisingly smoothly...

made a LCBA clone and my OG was spot on! surprised even myself..

Did learn one thing. Dont pour near boiling wort into you plastic hydro tube!!! :oops:

Afternoon all,

I heard about this site through the AHB site and am expecially intrested in learning more about BIAB as a method of going AG in a smaller space and time committment.

Have been brewing on and off for about 2 years, moving from K&B to extract. Looking to enjoy the ability to experiment with a wider range of ingredients using AG and BIAB!!

cwbrown07

DSJ wrote:

dick wrote:G'day DSJ

Welcome to the site. Hope all goes well with your first BIAB. Let us all know how it goes.

Cheers
Dick

it went surprisingly smoothly...

made a LCBA clone and my OG was spot on! surprised even myself..

Did learn one thing. Dont pour near boiling wort into you plastic hydro tube!!! :oops:

Or plastic racking cane tried to use as a syphon with my first biab batch didn't give much thought to getting that much wort into the no chill container

Hello all, another home brewer from the states (PA) signing on. Nice little forum here. I came across it as I was researching the whole BIAB paradigm. This approach has such appeal to me as I live in a townhouse with limited storage space. I have been brewing extract since January '10 and participated in some all grain group brews with a local club. I'm looking forward to getting to know some member and more about the BIAB process. Cheers.

Hi all,

I'm an all-grain brewer from the UK interested in learning about the pros and cons of the BIAB system.. Some of the things I've read recently sound almost too good to be true, but if I can really get >80% efficiency with a much simpler brew day, I want in!

Hi all,

I'm from the Adelaide Hills (South Australia) and have been drinking beer for quite a few years. Found this forum via AHB a month ago, but just getting around to posting now... I have tried the odd kit, but it seemed like a lot of effort to make something you could just as easily buy off the shelf - a bit like a packet of cake mix really - IMO.

So I decided to go straight to AG as I want to be able to experiment with the brewing process - my chickens also appear fully supportive of the idea. BIAB seemed like a good place to start, as I had 90% of the equipment lying around the house, hence could get brewing straight away then tweak, add, change, break, re-invent etc over time.

More interestingly, I did my first BIAB yesterday, and apart from a few minor ergonomic issues, it went off without a hitch :D ... and while I'd like to credit this to my amazing intellect (read - ego), its probably more due to the fact that I studied the posts on this site, and learnt a lot in the process. So a big thankyou to all who have contributed thus far!!!

At the moment, most of my gear is either retro-fitted, or home made - including the priceless orange shagpile carpet insulation. But everything held together and I even hit my target gravity etc. More importantly it smelt and tasted great going into the fermenter!

Looking forward to further discussing this most worthy of pursuits, cheers

Hello
I'm from central Ontario,Canada.
I've been fermenting kits for about a year now.
Wort in a bag,in a box c/w yeast, from a brewery,
which I imagine to be really just no chill on a commercial scale.
Time now to step up to my own boil.
Extensive research has led me here, for which I
am very grateful.
I hope to share many an hour with you all.
Dave.

welcome to the circus fellas jb

Hi all,

First post - I'm anxious to be a fully registered members so I can see everyone's setups.

I brew with my brother-in-law in San Carlos (San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA). We have been doing partial boil extract batches, mostly kits. Our best beer to-date has been our own recipe - partly increasing our desire to go all grain. Without causing too much friction with SWMBO, I figured BIAB was the way to go for minimal additional storage requirements and time committments.

This past week we purchased our 4" mill, 15.5 gallon SS pot, and a few other little things. We still need to make a bag (hopefully MIL will assist with her extreme sewing setup).

I look forward to double batches (5-gallons was not enough for two brewers to share) and the better flavors of all-grain and full boil batches. I hope to be more proud of these beers when sharing with my homebrew club!

-Jason

Hi all! I'm a member from AHB (Aussie home brewer), and found this site by accident. Been doing kits for a couple of years now and have just started kegging and finding I'm wanting to get the most out of my beer with an AG (but without an expensive setup). Looking forward to a wealth of knowledge here.

hi all... been on the BIAB bandwagon for about 14 months now... probably knocked out about 20 or so double batches in that time. Originally came across this site from AHB (username :argon)

I'm in Brisbane... an Architect... I like Pina Colada's and getting caught in the rain.

Look forward to discussing some finer points of BIAB with those dedicated brewers in the know.

Hi,

Im from Central Victoria (Shepparton) and have been brewing for 18months mostly kits, but a couple of extracts. Interested in moving to BIAB because of the ease in setting up.
I heard about BIAB through aussiehomebrewer.com, but found this site through homebrewandbeer.com
BIAB interests me due to the fact that I'm currently spending 3 hrs on K&B brews, so it seems the next logical progression.

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