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Post #4351 made 12 years ago
by thughes
Glad to have you here rynd96. I too am an electric BIAB'er and built my own rig. May I suggest you review this thread for some important lessons learned (specifically post #67), also do a search for threads containing "pump" and "burned"....might save you a few bucks!

---Todd
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Post #4352 made 12 years ago
by Agkistrodon
Howdy,
I'm Rob, from NY/NJ, USA. I brewed fairly consistently from 2007-2010, mostly kit and self-designed extract. Then I had a kid. Life changed, time vanished. Any hopes of moving to All-Grain vanished as well. This summer I attended a little shindig in the woods of NY focused on craft brews. One guy brought a home-brewed Steam/California Common. I learned from him that it was All-Grain. I lamented to him that I just didn't have 10 hours to kill... ever. He told me it was BIAB, and described the whole process to me. Life changed and I saw a light at the end of my brew-less tunnel. These days I'm readying my BIAB setup, and practicing with some extract batches, and training my 3-year old to stay away from the flames....

Thank you for the great time and effort to put a site like this together. It makes the whole internet a little less terrible. Its quite well done.

Post #4353 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
Agkistrodon,

Welcome to BIAB. Indeed, BIAB is the answer to every brewers dreams. Good beer quickly and easily! The only drawback to BIAB is some people like to waste time sitting around waiting and cleaning mash tuns. With BIAB you don't get to do that. Pity!
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #4354 made 12 years ago
by jkoegel
John here,
I have been making hard cider for 3 years now and started expanding to beer during the off season. BIAB was the next logical step after a couple extract brews so here I am. Hoping to learn something along the way.

Post #4355 made 12 years ago
by Shovel
Hello. I'm from La Crosse Wi USA and have only been brewing for a few months. So far they have all been Extract Kits but I'm interested in going to All Grain and found this forum through the Northern Brewer website. BIAB looks like the perfect way to go for me. It looks like all I need to get started is a bigger kettle (my current one is only five gallons) and a bag. So the search is on for a keg to convert or a kettle and I'm researching which route would be better.

Thanks in advance for the help I'm sure I will find on this site. :scratch:

Shovel

Post #4356 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
jkoegel,Shovel,

Welcome to the BIAB world wide headquarters and suppository I mean (depository). All things BIAB, electric, propane or nuclear are represented here. Get your bag on and brew! Read and learn, Brew and drink!

Shovel, Go Packers!
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #4357 made 12 years ago
by Lumpy5oh
Hello from Woodstock Ontario Canada. I have been extract brewing for a year from kits and self designed recipes. I have one recipe that I would like to develope into all grain and biab seems to be a great way to go.
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Post #4358 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
Lumpy5oh,

BIAB is the way to go. You can concentrate on your recipe because BIAB almost brews itself? Use our BIABacus to get your recipe organized before brewing it.

http://www.biabrewer.info/viewforum.php?f=43 Creating Your Own Recipes
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tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

http://cheesestradamus.com/ Brewers challenge!
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Post #4360 made 12 years ago
by cml21
Hi Everyone!

I'm an American, living in Detroit. Santa just brought me an eBIAB setup.

I've been brewing all-grain for about a year, but I'm not at all familiar with BIAB. I found this forum after looking around the net; I'm looking for a friendly / relaxed environment to pick up some BIAB pointers.

I currently work for a car company in IT.

Post #4361 made 12 years ago
by PistolPatch
Jmiliz and cml21, welcome to the forum. Nice score on the Christmas present cml21. And friendly, relaxed environment? I think you guys have come to the right place :P.

Have fun!
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Post #4362 made 12 years ago
by swrandall70
Hello,
Scott here from The USA. Maine to be exact. Just Received a 10 gallon brewpot with thermometer and spigot for Christmas in order to further my brewing skills by transitioning from a 5 gallon kettle used for extract and moving to BIAB. First recipe is going to be a Kolsch. I have the ingredients already and will be seeking some advice as to how to go about the brewing process.

Cheers.

Post #4363 made 12 years ago
by czechneck
Hello from Bristol, England. I've been brewing extract for about 6 months and am reasonably pleased with the results so far. Just bought myself a 50 litre mash tun/kettle as a present for getting a new job and am plunging into BIAB. Have done 1 brew so far and made plenty of mistakes so am keen to learn more. Looking forward to exploring the impressive range of resources and knowledge on the site. Cheers, Czech Neck

Post #4365 made 12 years ago
by Yeasty
Welcome swrandall70,czechneck and Goat Boy

It looks like you've all been good boys and Santa was impressed enough to bring you brewing gear. Hope the forum has you up and brewing in no time. If you get stuck shout and someone will jump in to help. If you don't get stuck remember to let us know how you get on.

:luck:

Yeasty
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Post #4366 made 12 years ago
by brewticus
Hello from maryland usa,im new to brewing,and just purchased my first brew equipment kit
im looking foward to doing my first biab.i found this site and am exited for the possabilities of brewing. cheers

Post #4367 made 12 years ago
by Yeasty
Welcome brewticus.

Biab is "THE" method for great beer with minimal equiupment. Glad you are starting off the right way.

:peace:

Yeasty
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Post #4369 made 12 years ago
by smashmouth
Greetings, first of all I want to express my gratitude to everyone on this site. I've been lurking for quite a while on many sites and forums and I feel most aligned with the general brewing philosophy (as my neophytic brain comprehends it) that I'm finding here.

I've been living in Seattle WA (US) for the last 7 years, and 30 some odd years in prior in Northern AZ.

Anyway, I've decided to jump strait into BIAB AG brewing without the requisite extract experience. I can't explain why, but I just feel compelled to just go ahead and start with what I want to do and not step my way there.

I have the one gallon setup (2 gallon HDPE bucket fermenter, 1 gallon glass secondary, 5 gallon BK, 22oz bomber bottles, with various accessories) because of my living situation and my desire to brew more often and not "eat" my mistakes. I want to go through the whole process with just water a couple of times to get a baseline for what I'm doing and calculate my boil off rate, etc. I did this with my 6qt pot and determined that it was inadequate.

My plan is really to work with SMaSH recipes early on to learn about different hops with probably the same basic pale malt (depending on local supply... suggestions?) as I'm pretty much and APA, IPA and IIPA drinker.
-- In Primary --
NONE - Need to get busy

-- Bottled --
SIMpatiCOE Pale Ale #7

Post #4370 made 12 years ago
by Mattyhall22
Hi, I'm Matt from Burton on Trent in the UK

I started brewing from kits and have a few under my belt, but I now want to try AG brewing. I haven't got a lot of room so BIAB seems ideal for me. I need to get my head round working out all the variables and grain absorption and boil off rates etc.

I cant wait to get started, I am looking at a few different boiler options weather to go electric with a converted plastic FV and kettle elements or go down the SS pot on the stove.

:)

Post #4371 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
Mattyhall22,

Welcome to the BIAB world. All the information you need to get started is on the site already. Look for the category of interest and start there.
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

http://cheesestradamus.com/ Brewers challenge!
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Post #4373 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
vicgil27,

Welcome to the group. Everything is here. All you have to do is read. If you need help? Look for the appropriate section and ask us there.
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

http://cheesestradamus.com/ Brewers challenge!
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Post #4375 made 12 years ago
by PistolPatch
Welcome all :peace:,

Just noticed a first post here that we missed...
smashmouth wrote:Greetings, first of all I want to express my gratitude to everyone on this site. I've been lurking for quite a while on many sites and forums and I feel most aligned with the general brewing philosophy (as my neophytic brain comprehends it) that I'm finding here.

I've been living in Seattle WA (US) for the last 7 years, and 30 some odd years in prior in Northern AZ.

Anyway, I've decided to jump strait into BIAB AG brewing without the requisite extract experience. I can't explain why, but I just feel compelled to just go ahead and start with what I want to do and not step my way there.

I have the one gallon setup (2 gallon HDPE bucket fermenter, 1 gallon glass secondary, 5 gallon BK, 22oz bomber bottles, with various accessories) because of my living situation and my desire to brew more often and not "eat" my mistakes. I want to go through the whole process with just water a couple of times to get a baseline for what I'm doing and calculate my boil off rate, etc. I did this with my 6qt pot and determined that it was inadequate.

My plan is really to work with SMaSH recipes early on to learn about different hops with probably the same basic pale malt (depending on local supply... suggestions?) as I'm pretty much and APA, IPA and IIPA drinker.
There are so many good questions above smashmouth and they will just get lost here. I'd definitely start a new topic called something like, "Planning my first brew" and copy and paste what you have written above there.

Great first post :salute:
PP
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