1. Where are you from?
2. How did you stumble across the site?
3. What you think of it so far?
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?

Hello everybody
My name is Nikos and I am Greek (live in Greece also), i have found the site trhough a greek beer forum link mentioning the adding of specialty grains in mash out :-). I am generally looking for good quality brewing forums as my new hobby is my new love (brewing 4 months now) So far i have brewed 5-6 beer kits, but I am preparing my bags!!! I have already my first BIAB ingedients ready for actions... just missing a good(big) cauldron
I am working and time is really limited but late nights and weekends is my breweing time...
Happy to be here

Hey, I'm Arlo, new brewer, only three brews so far (kits). I live in Tucson, Az. Have a 16.5 gal barrel w/ top cut out. I like the idea of less equipment, and still being able to go all grain. I'll lurk here for a while and see what its all about.

Thanks for the welcome. I have a gas burner from a turkey frier, looking for a source for the bag, right now.

Hi Arlo have you tried ebay? http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid= ... g&_sacat=0 Bags here for $9

cheers

Hi all - great site! A London (UK) brewer here - looking forward to my first BIAB in a couple of weeks!

Hello,
I also live in Richmond, Va but I'm originally from Lincolnshire England. I've read this forum top to bottom but have not brewed one iota. In fact I built a temperature controlled fermentor in a chest freezer before I even bought a brewing kettle, but I'm a geek. I intend to start as soon as I get back from my trip to the Yorkshire Dales in two weeks time where I will be going to the Richmond, Yorkshire real ale festival and visting Black Sheep and Theakstons brewery. My dream is to recreate the good old nothern english pint wit a proper head on it to go with some good old Lincolnshire sausages. Thanks for indulging my fantasy.

Hi everybody,

I live in San Diego and just found the site through a picture on google images. I was searching for new ways to get less trub in the fermenter and stumbled in here. I've just spent a good bit of time reading though the history of posts and there's lots of good info here.

I started brewing back in late 2008 and did 3 extract batches before switching to all grain BIAB after reading an article in a magazine (BYO?). I've been BIAB ever since. I got less diligent in note-taking after batch 30, but I guess I've done 45-50 batches by now, mostly 3 gallon (which I do on the stove top) and 5 gallon (outside on the turkey fryer burner) with a couple of 10 gallon batches tossed in here and there.

As far as work goes, I wrote software for quite a while, until they recently shut down the office I worked in. Not sure if I'm on sabbatical or early retirement, but anyway - I have more time to brew now. I'm looking forward to hanging out here - most of my local brewer friends are pretty orthodox in their brewing. Some would even stay with extracts until they could afford a full-blown 3 vessel system. Oh well - whatever...

Yeasty wrote:Welcome porchfiddler,

Thank you for letting us share your fantasy. Just ask and we will be whatever you want us to be

oh and you will love Richmond and the brewery tours, I'm originaly from that part of the UK myself and the beers great..

Thanks Yeasty, I intend to taste a few beers at the festival to try and find something that I'd like to attempt to brew. I've enjoyed your posts and I'm sure I'll need some help down the road. And as for fantasies all those flirtatious Yorkshire sheep should suffice.

joshua wrote:Welcome HenryBruer, Great to hear your one of the Early BIAB Brewers!!

Here is a couple of ways to reduce Trub losses, After the mashout and pulling the grain bag, Install an older full size BIAB Bag, before dropping your hops.

This way, the hops will stay in the bag, and most of the Hot break will be filtered out by those hops.

Second, as you pour the wort into the fermenter, use a fine collender screen to catch much of the rest of the trub.

Lastly, squeeze the bag and drain as much wort as you can. The Trub/hops may only be the size of a baseball.

Hi joshua, thanks for the warm welcome and the suggestions.

I'll try that first suggestion on my next brew day. I usually just toss the pellet hops in, and I've used a BIAB bag when I'm using my homegrown hops (currently growing Cascades and Nugget), but I've never tried putting the bag in before the break - that could certainly help. Do you use an IC?

As for the collender... I typically use BetterBottles and I've tried using a funnel/filter, but maybe the filter was too fine. It just seemed to clog up instantly and be a bigger pain than having trub in the fermenter. I guess I could pour through a collender into a bucket for the filtering and then from the bucket to the fermenter - just a little extra sanitizing to get cleaner, more aerated wort.

Thanks joshua, I'm sure I will have questions!

Hi All,

Come across this site by using google. Live up in Tolga, FNQ, AUS. Only 2 brews into BIAB so still heaps to learn.

Hello everyone! I'm Italian and I'm reading the forum for some time. I found you on the Internet looking for news on BIAB and I hope to learn as much as possible on this technique. At the time I used once the BIAB method. Thank you all for your attention.

I'm from Minneapolis, MN. I came across the site after watching the BrewTV "Jake's Got a Brand New Bag" BIAB episode, after reading the comments underneath the video. The site seems complex, but I'm sure that once I get acquainted with it (it) will be just fine... all user reviews were awesome. I have been brewing for 8 months- all extract kits- and have assisted on some partial-mash kits. I work full-time as a health/wellness researcher and also am completing a Masters in Applied Social Psychology.