Hey everyone,

I just recently started brewing wine and wasn't really interested in homebrew beer since I have had bad experiences with other people's homebrew from kits... but after seeing that AG brewing isn't the rocket surgery I thought it was, I've decided to give it a whirl.

Cheers,
Ryan

hi all just about to start with biab over here in the uk and hope it goes well
hope you guys can help me out if i have any problems

happy brewing

Hello,

Thanks for the website and all the info here!! I'm in Kansas City, Missouri-United States. I heard about this site from a podcast on "The Beer Smith Show". Its a cool site, but i haven't spent a lot of time on it yet. I have brewed a total of three batches of beer so far. Two were extract and the last one was a partial mash. I want to get into all grain and am interested in trying BIAB in a small batch first. I work as an heating and A/C tech. I have four kids and that's why BIAB seems so appealing because it seems to not take as long as "traditional" brewing, thus saving time. Thanks again for the website, and happy brewing!

Hi from Tassie

I'm four brews in to a return to homebrewing. I gave it up a long time ago as I was over washing bottles. Now I'm kegging things are a lot more fun.

I was happy to spend my time doing K&K to keep the fridge full, as AG looked like a lot of hard work, and with a toddler and a renovators delight I don't have a whole heap of spare time.

However, now that I've come across BIAB I think my brewing options have expanded markedly.

Thanks for an informative site.

Cheers
Ted

Greetings from northern New Jersey!

Montbard Brewing consists of myself and close friend from high school days. We've been brewing extract for about 6 months now and have brewed some truly wonderful stuff, our best so far would be a Black IPA.

Hoping to use BIAB as a stepping stone into all grain.

Will post our results and findings in the forums for sure!

hello everyone,
I am an Insomniac Sommelier with a penchant for a good brew. I am from the Washington,DC area and I am starting a brew club.
Everyone is relying on me to make it a success, a role I gladly relish.
I just started getting back into brewing again (virtually so far) and I want to do AG brewing for quality as well as skill enhancement for the group.
I've decided for the group we are going to do large batch/double batch BIAB with quality vessels as a step towards the HERMS/RIMS brewing we'd like to get to for skill development.
I stumbled on PP and BIABrewers long 36pages thread somewhere after a Google search and lost that bewildering "where the heck are we gonna get $3000 feeling I was wrestling with."
So we will be starting with BIAB so we can get moving sooner rather than later.
I started out making wine in college and started making beer while I was waiting for the secondary to conclude on my wines. I have made one extract brew since Moving to the DC area and after a too long hiatus am now jumping back in with both feet.
Hopefully will be able to contribute something on the upper end of batch size for the group as we are divvying up what we brew into growlers after we ferment, eventually the founding members all plan on going to small corny kegs but the growlers make it easier to get going now.
Hopefully someone else in the group uses growlers in a similar situation and can shed some light on bottle conditioning differences for these monster bottles.
other than that I am looking to glean as much info from this site as is possible.
The long term plan is to certify some folks for the BJCP and do some pro-am brews and contests so we definitely can help in the "rubber meets the road" department once we get going.
I am looking forward to the improvements in time and cleanup that BIAB promises and thankfully am not a brewing bigot. I tend to evangelize too so I could potentially help the cause as well.
Will let you all know as best as I can the results whenever possible and look forward to getting up to speed quickly with BIAB thanks to this wonderful forum.

Cheers,

Roy

Greetings. My name is nate and i hail from the US of A. I've been brewing extract brews for a couple of years now with some friends but the wife and i are about to buy our first house which will give me the room to brew on my own. So hopefully soon i'll start on one gallon mini-BIAB beers and go from there.

Howdy from Switzerland!

I'm an extract and partial mash brewser since 4 years. I brew in appartment (in the kitchen) and I'm very extited to try the BIAB with my 30 liters electric urn. Really happy to found you forum.

I love old beer styles like english IPA style from 1814 or old weissbeer from 1614! Beers with character.
Will share my experience in BIAB. Need to calculte the recipe and give a try with my favorite.

Hoppy regards, Dom

Greetings from New York City!

I've been brewing for about six months now, using the BIAB method the whole time. Wish I had known about this site for the past six months, I'm sure it would have saved me a bunch of trouble. I found this site while browsing some BIAB information on another homebrew forum.

Hello All,
I've been brewing pretty regularly for the last three years. I discovered BIAB this year and it's become my regular method now. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA. We have lots of good beer here, but I enjoy making it myself nonetheless. I normally visit homebrewtalk.com and aussiehomebrewer.com, but I've read posts here for a while and I'm looking forward to becoming a member.

Hey all...

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?

1. Perth Western Australia
2. From the AHB Forum
3. So far, so good!
4. Yep - started off K&K, now more Kits n Bits and Extract for the last 5 years on and off.. Moving to a bigger place soon, and once that gets set-up would like to get into BIAB.
5. I work for the Dept. of Transport...

Welcome bender, phil and all,
I'm sure that you'll find what you need here.

And enjoy making great beer easily.

Best luck

Lemon

Hi Gang,

1. Where are you from? Cherrybrook, Sydney
2. How did you stumble across the site? Aussiehomebrewer forums
3. What you think of it so far? Good
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? Yes, extracts for yonks and biab for around 2.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? Computer programmer

Thanks Lemon!

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to brewing. I have experimented in the past with extracts with varying success but a friend and I are going to give biab a go this coming weekend. I've been doing a lot of research on the method and keep ending up here. I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can from the forum and the experienced brewers here. Wish me luck.

Regards,
Josh

Hello all. I am relatively new to brewing (about 5 months now) and would like to give BIAB a try. Seems like more fun than Extract without the expense of AG.

Hello fellow homebrewers, and greetings from the frozen North!

I have a total of 6 brews under my belt now (1 kit, 3 extract, 1 AG BIAB and 2 BIAB with extract additions), and after seeing how much money I can save on extract I don't think I'm going back to extract brewing any time soon. I look forward to digging into the cornucopia of BIAB knowledge that is gathered in here.

Skål!
Nidveg from Norway

Here we go


1. Where are you from?

Stockholm, Sweden

2. How did you stumble across the site?

Was searching for BIAB info and found it by random search

3. What you think of it so far?

Looks great! Already found lots of info I can use

4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?

Been homebrewing for little over a year with extract and steeping grains, about 12 batches. Did my first BIAB last month and want to explore that more

5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?

Work for a IT company

Hello all, brewing down here in the deep south (Mississippi) in the USA. All grain brewing about 10 years and extract brewing about 5 more. I tend to stay with English ales, hoppy American pales, and German Helles. Have a 3 tier system I built that I use pretty often, but am looking forward to trying to simplify with BIAB. From the looks of the recipes and guides listed here I'll need to scrape the rust off of my metric skills! Attached are 2 photos, one of my allgrain system, and the other of me picking hops (Cascades) off the bines I've had since 1999 (wow, has it been that long!).

Cheers all!
Robert

Hello everyone, I am new to this site, I just found you through a Homebrew Forum I belong to. I live in Southeast Michigan, in the States to the several Aussies I read from on here already. I am an experienced Kit/Extract Brewer, having done around 30 brews so far. I am tired though of not hitting my expectations on the Kits/Extracts, alway's wondering what I did wrong when I followed the Timing/Temps/Gravities,etc... all the time and still it did not ferment out completely. My Home Brew Shop manager told me that is not uncommon with Kits/Extracts and that BIAB and ALL GRAIN Traditional behave differently and almost alway's achieve the goal of the recipe you have selected. I need a bigger Kettle and a Large Bag, but other than that, I am excited about doing my first BIAB within the next two weeks. I hope to learn alot from this Forum and look forward to chatting with you guy's/gal's in the future. CHEERS

Hi all. Porterguy here. From the US, near Chicago. Great site. Never heard of BIAB until I saw a link in Homebrewtalk.com. Ready to give it a try this Sat. Just started homebrewing, and have only done one kit and one partial mash, but was already thinking of going AG, but the cost was holding me back. This looks like a great way to get the benefits of AG without the expense or time.

Awesome smilies, too.