great site, hope i can get lots of info and maybe help along the way. have been brewing for about 5 years. as usual, started with a kit, then built a single tier 3 vessel outdoor brew set up. winter is cold here in maryland so i went with single pot 10 gal e-biab indoor setup. now most of my brews are indoor (even in summer). a die hard diy, so i love these kind of web sites. first post, glad to be here (sligocreekbrewing.com).

Hi Folks, I'm James I'm 41 and I live in Witham (near Chelmsford) in England. I've recently returned to brewing after nearly a 20 year break and so far I've brewed 5 kits. However I've just discovered BIAB and I'm going to give this a go in the near future. I'm currently gathering my kit together but I thought I'd join the forum as it seems like a fantastic place to get some tips and assistance.

Thanks, I cant wait to get going!!

Hey Hey,
I'm Marnix, a 27 year old Gastronomic Sciences student from The Netherlands, living in Italy. I study food, and everything to do with food. Whether that is food production, food tasting, food culture, its philosophy or the history of it, I'm supposed to study it What naturally comes with the job is cooking, I'm an intermediate baker, baking anything from breads and pies to quiches and tarts (using my own yeast mother harvested from a bottle of De Molen Amarillo). I live in a community of foodies and we try to make anything from elderflower cordial or champagne to vinegar (which is quite easy, just forget about a bottle of something ).
There are some homebrewers in our area, but most of them are extract brewers, and there are a couple of microbreweries in the area. The most important of these is brewery Balladin from Teo Musso, who attempts to conquer the Italian winelovers with his barrel aged sourales that taste along the lines of sherry or actually use wine most.

I came across this site while trying to find an easy method to do all grain brews and it seems that I have arrived at the perfect place!
Best of luck to you all!
Dauthi

Recovering yeast from a beer bottle is easy Aslong as the bottle isn't too old, the yeast will most prolly just be dormant. Collect the sediment of your favorite bottle in a sanitize container, and some water and sugar, mix it through stick a lid on and leave at a warmish place. Because you are using a very liquid environment, the yeast will be very reactive, it multiplies rapidly and eats like crazy (basically like making a starter). After that you add flour and water, if you want to bake with it, and you adapt the viscosity to when you would like to use it. I prefer to use a lower viscosity at the start so it can multiply and settle itself. After that it depends on how often you bake or how often you want to refeed it

Hello.My name is Bill and I'm from southern Mississippi where homebrewing is technically still illegal. My wife got me a brew kit for my birthday recently and i have done 4 partial boil extract/steeping brews. I have a 10 gallon kettle and wort chiller ordered that should arrive next week. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to do a partial mash kit next or make the jump straight to biab. I found the site on google and look forward to the new adventure.

1. Where are you from?
Nova Scotia, Canada
2. How did you stumble across the site?
I forget, probably homebrewtalk
3. What you think of it so far?
Great source of info
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
Mostly kits, hacked a few with partial mash
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?
I work for a construction company

Hi Everyone! My name is Mike and I live in North Dakota, USA. I work in a metal shop as a CNC laser programmer. Since I have easy access to so many cool metal working machines, I am always looking for ways to make my own brewing equipment.

As far as brewing experience; I have only brewed extract recipes, and not even a lot of them. My brother and I have talked about getting into all grain, and BIAB piqued our interest. So I thought I would join your community to learn as much as possible before making the switch.

thughes wrote:Welcome Mike! Metal shop? CNC laser? Oh man, you're gonna be building some crazy brewing stuff sooner or later. Can I send you the engineering drawings for my next build?

---Todd

Absolutely! I've been playing around making CAD drawings for a "brew-station". Don't know when or if that will ever get built, but it's fun to dream. I am thinking about making my own brew pot. Trying to decide if it's worth it to make one, or buy one. Probably will make one, just because!

Hi im normally brew from kits, but looking at getting in to BIAB.

Im another brewer for the UK, Leeds infact.

hi all
been an avid home brewer of some level for over 20 years going to now start doing biab the site seems endless in the info that is here
my first question or request is if someone could provide me with a screen capture of beersmith2 50L BIAB as i accidently hit a wrong key and the original info has changed and i would like to start over with my equip setup by following the steps on this site
thanks in advance and look forward to putting this site to good use