Hey all! Im living in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) and I have been brewing kit beers for the last two years. A friend of mine introduced me to all grain (3 vessel system), however I find BIAB way more interesting right now, and I plan on doing my first BIAB brew this weekend. I have a small variety of grains so I am going to take a stab at a hoppy American pale ale.
I can't wait to fully explore this site and take in as much info. as possible, and make a few friends along the way.
As for a little bit about me, Im 33, married with wife and child...and another in the oven ; P I am a plumbing/heating tech in the Canadian Forces and hope to one day win some money and open a brew pub!
Cheers!!

Hi All,

I'm a Welshman living in Brisbane & came across this site via Google; so far it looks good - I'm looking forward to finding some good recipes & advice from fellow brewers. I've been into kit brewing at various times over the last 20 years with varying degrees of success (usually disappointing) and spent 10 years working in a commercial brewery (producing bland commercial beer). I've thought about moving to all grain brewing for ages and only came across BIAB last week - I now have a shiny new 40L Birko urn just crying out for a nice American Pale Ale...very excited!

Cheers,

Dave

Greetings from the South West England,

I'm glad to have found this place as I've recently started home brewing and have done a couple of kits but have a couple more in hand to do, after which I want to try all grain brewing. I must admit that I was rather stumped at what the advantage was for the more complex methods of AG brewing and to my mind the added efficiency didn't seem to outweigh the extra cost and effort.

In all honesty I think I'm a few months away from my 1st BIAB but that should mean I have plenty of time to plan it out properly.

I have my eye on a 19L stock pot from which I hope to produce 15L batches as the pot will fit in the kitchen sink for cooling and on the hob for boiling.

Hello gents, happy to be here.

1. Where are you from? Chicago, IL
2. How did you stumble across the site? Looking for BIAB recipes to try out the technique and see if I'd like to start doing BIAB long term.
3. What you think of it so far? Pretty damned informative. I've got a lot of reading to do!
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? I've done 4 batches with extract, the most recent of which was an oaked imperial stout.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? I'm a mechanical engineer at Shure Incorporated. I do product design for microphones and wireless audio equipment.

Nice to meet all of you dudes, and I hope to learn a lot!

Hello All,

Here in Chicago, I'm a math teacher and wanted to find a better way to brew beer.

Thanks,

JA

Hello from St Paul Minnesota USA. I first heard about this site and brewing method from the BeerSmith podcast interview with Patrick Hollingdale. I began brewing last year, exclusively extract kits from my LHBS. It wasn't long before I decided I'd like to try my hand at all-grain but not wanting to make a huge financial commitment, I wanted see if there were more affordable options available. I like the simplicity of this method and am looking forward to learning more about it. I am most interested in the mini-BIAB method because I'd like to make smaller batches for more variety.

Hello fellows!

I've just registered myself to this site.I am from Zagreb,Croatia and I've been using BIAB method some six months now.This method is working great form me and I've made 7 batches so far and they all were great beers.Therefore I just want to thank you Australians for inventing this brewing method!If traditional 3 vessel system would be the only possible method to brew a batch of beer I would never brew my own beer because I don't have enough space for all that equipment,don't have the skills and knowledge to build that complicated system and most of all I simply don't see justification of huge money investment into traditional systems if I can make the equally beer with this method or close to equally or even better.Right know I'm considering how to improve my system although I'm very happy with my mash efficiency so far since I have a constant 72-77% and I think that is great for beginner like me.

I hope my english is ok for you native speakers!

Greeting from Zagreb,Croatia!

Hi, I'm mainly a lurker and this will probably be one of my only posts. I'm just interested seeing what the difference is between a registered user and fully registered. I stumbled across this site while researching BIAB. I just started getting interested in craft beer. Before that I drank mostly wine. I don't have any brewing equipment so have not brewed anything yet. Not sure if that will change soon or not it all depends on what the misses says.

Cheers

Hello, I registered the other day and have been spending some time checking out some of the different discussions. I live in Boston, Massachusetts. I started brewing this year. Living in an apartment, I don't really have the space for a large setup, but I found that after one kit, I just wanted to tinker with recipes and figure out how things work throughout the process. Some people I spoke with said that I just needed to take the plunge into all-grain brewing, but I really do not want to make the financial commitment. Then I listened to the Beersmith podcast with Patrick Hollingdale last week and figured this might be the solution that I am looking for.

So far, the information I have found has been really helpful. I'll probably have some questions, but I would like to make sure that it wasn't answered somewhere else.

Giday,

This is my first post and i am looking forward to doing my first BIAB brew. I have done a few exstact kit beers while I have been assembling my BIAB system and now that it is ready to go i am looking for a recipie to use. I have done a lot of reading and the more i read the more i realsie I don't know.

I am in New Zealand and are looking to produce some nice beer. I like lighter style beers but as I progress down the brewing road I am sure this will change.

I will post pictures of my system once i have the go ahaed.
cheers

Hello Everyone, I live in Tasmania and I am about to make the step from extract with grains to BIAB, could someone please give me some advice on what type of grain mill to buy and what to stay clear of.

I am looking forward to the next step in a great hobby.

First time I have been involved in a crash for a long time............
At least it wasn't an excess of enthusiasm over skill this time......
To paraphrase my last first post, making the move from extract to BIAB, have been brewing for 2 years or so and have reached a point where I want to achieve particular flavours.
May be a slow process as other matters of survival like growing vegies etc tend to intrude
Thanks again to Joshua for the original welcome......
Hmm Friday night wonder what is cold in the fridge