Hi,

My name is Eric and I live in Cincinnati, Ohio in the USA. I am new to home brewing and have only brewed one batch using extract. It was an IPA and was actually enjoyable to drink. I am attracted to BIAB due to its simplicity. I hope to gather the materials to do a smaller batch within the next few weeks. I am impressed by the organization and resources available on this site. I hope to visit here frequently and learn how to brew great tasting beer. Thanks for having such an interesting forum!

Hello all, I'm an ex-pat living in Costa Rica. New to all-grain brewing, but have a dozen or so extract batches under my belt. Found the site while looking for info on BIAB techniques, specifically whether to worry about heating the kettle with a gas flame with the grains in the nylon bag seeping away and no false bottom.

Afternoon all,

I've been brewing kits for a few years and it's all getting a bit repetitive now.

I've steeped grains and fiddled with hop schedules and don't feel like I'm gaining any extra knowledge. So I've got myself a big bag for my grains and am eager to see what happens next...

Marti

Hi All,
I'm Marty and a new member from Stafford Springs, CT in the US. I found this site as I was searching for BIAB info and it looks like I hit the jackpot. I've only done a few extract with steeping grain batches but they've all been fun and turned out well. I was reading about BIAB and it looks like a perfect mix between the ease of extract and the control of all-grain so I'm going to go for it. I have a 14 gallon brewing kettle and a barley crusher on the way; I have my bag being sewn by a seamstress that I know and I hope to be brewing with the new equipment soon. I have the ingredients for one more extract batch to use up and after that it it will be BIAB.
Cheers

Hi all,

I'm a wanna-be brewer from Sweden. Had 7 or so successful brews so far, BIAB and extract, but the last couple have gone horribly wrong. I *thought* I knew what I was doing but need to go back to basics. Hopefully, this is a good place to do that.

Apart form that? I'm a former opera singer, a lunch time philosopher and a computer programmer. Give me stout or give me death!

Cheers!

Hi all,
My name is Darrell Davis and I am from Terre Haute, Indiana. I started brewing less than 3 months ago with 2 Mr. Beer kits and then 2 extract kits but felt I was making "scratch biscuits" by whacking a cardboard tube over the counter. BIAB seems perfect to move up to without selling a kidney and I am looking forward to learning and reading about it here. Thanks for the info.
Darrell

Hope I am doing this right.
I am an occasional brewer of extracts recipes in the past and recently started to get interested in all grain brewing. I am about to try my first brew using this method, and am trying for a Sierra Nevada clone. I have a converted 50 litre keg as my vessel, which needs to have a drain tap put in to make it easy to use. I found the website by accident really and was over the moon when I check it out in more detail. I hope to one day soon develop my own recipe using this method. I am in my 50's and rally only stumbled on the craft beer scene in the past year or so. I am from the Northern Beaches of Sydney in Australia, and hope to be a competent BIAB brewer real soon.

Well it's most likely been more than 20 years since I brewed a batch of beer. I have only tried extracts until today. I started a kit that came pre made with 23 liters of wort. My plan is to slowly get back into making beer and then transition into BIAB.

Someone from another forum suggested this site and I am glad they did, looks like a lot of good info here.
Any way, hello from Canada

BobBrews wrote:Welcome bigrockk,

How about sending some warm weather South? You will find everything you need here.

Boy not much warm weather here, as I type this it is 1 degree f this morning.
Thanks for the welcome!

Hello all! In the absence of creativity, I'll do this Q&A-style straight off the suggested questions posted at the head of the thread!

1. Where are you from?
I am from the U.S. Pacific Northwest, the state of Oregon to be precise. Portland to be even preciser (not a word, I know).

2. How did you stumble across the site?
I heard about the site through a user on HomeBrewTalk.com. He suggested checking out this site for essential info on BIAB, and he was right!

3. What you think of it so far?
It's great! I've read so much info already that I hadn't seen posted in other brewing forums before, simply because most other brewers aren't doing BIAB.

4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
I've brewed a couple extract batches and helped a friend with an all-grain batch. Never tried BIAB, but I'm going to give it my first shot in about 2 weeks, so I'm absorbing whatever information I can get my hands on leading up to brew day.

5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?
I am an Assistant Producer at a motion graphics studio in Portland, OR. But what I really want to do is write books for kids.

Thanks in advance for all the help the BIAB community provides me!
-Adam

Hi All,

I've just registered and hope to switch to BIAB in the next two weeks. So far, I've only brewed kit, and extract.


I have recently acquired a Jam-Maker which is essentially a 27L kettle with 1.8KW heater, and digital temp control (30-100 C) & timer which I hope will work well for the mash.
Unfortunately, it cuts out before achieving a rolling boil.
I've pulled it apart and measured the resistance from the thermistor at 25 C and 90C, and have wired in a circuit to allow me to trick it into thinking it's at 60 C.
Once I set the temperature control above that level, it thinks it's under temperature and it boils. I can switch back to default behaviour, and achieve stable mash temps, hopefully !

I've just downloaded the sheets and noticed that the Start of Boil Volume is set to 34.81 litres, and is not red (not supposed to edit).

Can I start with a smaller boil volume, and top up during the boil?

Thanks,
Shaun