Starting to brew in Detroit, USA about 6 months ago. I have 4 extract batches and now 2 BIAB batches.
I'm hooked. I can't wait to brew again as soon as I finish one batch I want to stay home from work and brew again.
I moved quickly from 5 gallon pot to 10 gallon BIAB to a newly fabricated keg kettle. I'm looking for details to make a bag for my half barrel 15.5 gallon keg. I going to IKEA today to get VOILE and a 13inch glass lid for my KEG
Going to try to make a nice seal on my lid and leave my wort in the same vessel for mash-cook-ferment. Anything I should be worried about?
Post #4852 made 12 years ago
Smithcorya,
Welcome to biab brewing. You are in the right place at a right time to brew a righteous beer. Re-post the questions in a suitable? section of the forum. Remember to walk before you run. Get the basics down first. Welcome again to the worlds oldest and most complete BIAB forum.
Welcome to biab brewing. You are in the right place at a right time to brew a righteous beer. Re-post the questions in a suitable? section of the forum. Remember to walk before you run. Get the basics down first. Welcome again to the worlds oldest and most complete BIAB forum.
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!
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 #4853 made 12 years ago
capuchin44,
Welcome to the site. Basic Brewing Radio is our friend. There is a lot of good information in those "back episodes" to peruse. Welcome and good brewing to you,
Welcome to the site. Basic Brewing Radio is our friend. There is a lot of good information in those "back episodes" to peruse. Welcome and good brewing to you,
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!
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 #4854 made 12 years ago
Greetings!
Recent convert to BIAB and couldn't be happier. Well, I could be but that has nothing to do with brewing. Seeking to blend art and science with an open mind.
bluecar
Recent convert to BIAB and couldn't be happier. Well, I could be but that has nothing to do with brewing. Seeking to blend art and science with an open mind.
bluecar
Post #4855 made 12 years ago
My name is Mike and I'm from the metro Detroit area of Michigan in the US. I found this site earlier this week while searching for BIAB info. It seems like there's a lot of good info here. A lot of articles I've found on BIAB are pretty basic or have differing information.
I've been brewing a bit more than a year, though last year I was only doing 1 gallon/3.75 liter extract batches. Starting earlier this year I moved to 1 gal all-grain batches using Brooklyn Brew Shop's recipes and methods. Shortly after that I started doing 5 gallon/19 liter extract batches. Though recently I've acquired a propane burner and a 9 gal/34 liter pot, so I would like to start doing BIAB.
I'm getting married 29 days from today and over the past couple months all my brewing has been for wedding. I've got six corny kegs of my own brew ready to serve. I'm pretty excited about that.
Mike
I've been brewing a bit more than a year, though last year I was only doing 1 gallon/3.75 liter extract batches. Starting earlier this year I moved to 1 gal all-grain batches using Brooklyn Brew Shop's recipes and methods. Shortly after that I started doing 5 gallon/19 liter extract batches. Though recently I've acquired a propane burner and a 9 gal/34 liter pot, so I would like to start doing BIAB.
I'm getting married 29 days from today and over the past couple months all my brewing has been for wedding. I've got six corny kegs of my own brew ready to serve. I'm pretty excited about that.
Mike
Post #4856 made 12 years ago
bluecar, mjp,
Welcome to the site. we need new blood (ours is alcohol filled) Step up to the plate and bat away! We are here if you need us!
Welcome to the site. we need new blood (ours is alcohol filled) Step up to the plate and bat away! We are here if you need us!
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!
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 #4857 made 12 years ago
Hey! I'm from north Texas, USA and looking forward to attempting my first BIAB! I've got several extract and partial mash brews under my belt and am intrigued by this kind of brewing. I figured this is a good place to get started. Looking forward to it!
Blake
Blake
Post #4858 made 12 years ago
Hey all,
I am from the S.E. Michigan area and just stumbled across this site today. I have been brewing extract batches for many years now, but haven't taken the time/investment steps to move to all grain. This looks like the perfect intermediate step to drop extracts once and for all. I am looking forward to trying this soon! Now to find some food recipes for all those spent grains...
I am from the S.E. Michigan area and just stumbled across this site today. I have been brewing extract batches for many years now, but haven't taken the time/investment steps to move to all grain. This looks like the perfect intermediate step to drop extracts once and for all. I am looking forward to trying this soon! Now to find some food recipes for all those spent grains...
Post #4859 made 12 years ago
bennyboopy wrote:Hey all,
I am from the S.E. Michigan area and just stumbled across this site today. I have been brewing extract batches for many years now, but haven't taken the time/investment steps to move to all grain. This looks like the perfect intermediate step to drop extracts once and for all. I am looking forward to trying this soon! Now to find some food recipes for all those spent grains...
Welcome, BIAB is a great way to go All Grain period. There is no need to progress further. Here is a link to spent grain recipes http://brooklynbrewshop.com/themash/cat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... grainchef/
Cheers
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Post #4860 made 12 years ago
kbmeyer01, bennyboopy, JackRussel,
Welcome to town! This town has all you need for a happy life! Beer and many ways to make it better!
Welcome to town! This town has all you need for a happy life! Beer and many ways to make it better!
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!
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 #4861 made 12 years ago
Hello all from southern Illinois. So far, I've brewed 11 batches, the last 2 being all-grain. While looking around sites for AG info, I kept coming across brewers who seemed to be having a lot of success with BIAB. While my 2 AG batches (single infusion, medium body, batch sparge) were in the 65% range for efficiency, I felt like it couldn't hurt any to take a further look at the BIAB process and see if I couldn't enhance my brewing experience and improve my efficiency a bit. Here's wishing successful BIAB brew days to all!
Post #4862 made 12 years ago
I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area. Specifically, Livermore, CA. I heard about this site from a Basic Brewing podcast. I've been AG brewing since 2008. I started on a 3 tier MoreBeer brew sculpture, then "downgraded" to a larger two vessel no-sparge system. Now I'm looking to do smaller BIAB batches and really committing to the method (I've done a few in the past). When I realized that sparging improves efficiency but not quality, I stopped performing them and started questioning a lot of the established homebrew dogma. This is what led me to no-sparge and BIAB. I don't see any wort quality compromises in the BIAB method, so why introduce more pots to clean and gadgets to break?
Post #4863 made 12 years ago
Hi Everyone,
My name is Steve and I live in South Florida near Ft. Lauderdale. About to switch from extract to BIAB so looking to this forum for some great insights.
My name is Steve and I live in South Florida near Ft. Lauderdale. About to switch from extract to BIAB so looking to this forum for some great insights.
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Post #4864 made 12 years ago
Hi all,
I'm from Perth, Western Australia and was linked to this site by a fellow brewer in Perth.
I think this site is great. It has a wealth of information. However for people new to the site, it can be confusing. One suggestion I have would is to place all the "tried and tested" BIABacus recipes (excel files) in one reference point such as a single post or a wiki. For new people, it can be confusing to get all this into BIABacus from a typed out recipe. It may already exist, I just haven't found it yet!
I've been an extract brewer for a while and am now brewing all grain and loving it (40L Buffalo urn; BIAB). Also I'm in information management - if you didn't guess already.
I'm from Perth, Western Australia and was linked to this site by a fellow brewer in Perth.
I think this site is great. It has a wealth of information. However for people new to the site, it can be confusing. One suggestion I have would is to place all the "tried and tested" BIABacus recipes (excel files) in one reference point such as a single post or a wiki. For new people, it can be confusing to get all this into BIABacus from a typed out recipe. It may already exist, I just haven't found it yet!
I've been an extract brewer for a while and am now brewing all grain and loving it (40L Buffalo urn; BIAB). Also I'm in information management - if you didn't guess already.
Post #4865 made 12 years ago
Hi Hathro, Great to see you've made the switch! Welcome
I believe Pat and the guys are well into getting the high integrity recipe section up and running soon, so stay tuned.
Hope the Brews are going well. I'm just sitting here while my mash is going on so looking forward to trying another one soon!
I believe Pat and the guys are well into getting the high integrity recipe section up and running soon, so stay tuned.
Hope the Brews are going well. I'm just sitting here while my mash is going on so looking forward to trying another one soon!
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Post #4867 made 12 years ago
Bmager, keef, shetc and yfoster, welcome to the guild 
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BobBrews and I did a podcast above that will answer some of your questions on no-sparging and efficiency above. This thread and this one may also be of help.
And yfoster, that is very generous of you to become a Donor already. Fantastic!
,BobBrews and I did a podcast above that will answer some of your questions on no-sparging and efficiency above. This thread and this one may also be of help.
And yfoster, that is very generous of you to become a Donor already. Fantastic!
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Post #4868 made 12 years ago
Hi,
I've just found this site when I googled BIAB forum. I am from Wyndham Vale in Vic, and have always been interested in brewing beer but only ever tried one wort kit.
Reading through some of the forum as got me intrigued. "A perfect example of a low integrity recipe" shows just how good this resource will be and I look forward to getting on board and having a go at BIAB.
Mark.
I've just found this site when I googled BIAB forum. I am from Wyndham Vale in Vic, and have always been interested in brewing beer but only ever tried one wort kit.
Reading through some of the forum as got me intrigued. "A perfect example of a low integrity recipe" shows just how good this resource will be and I look forward to getting on board and having a go at BIAB.
Mark.
Post #4869 made 12 years ago
Hi all !
I'm from Versailles, France, I'm an embedded software engineer, and I haven't started homebrewing yet. I live in a small appartement so I don't want my brewing activity to take too much space. I discovered the BIAB method on the main french homebrewing forum, and I think it is probably the best solution for me. However Homebrewing is not very developed in france, very few people practice it compared to the US, and BIAB is even less practiced. So I googled BIAB and quickly stumbled on biabrewer.info. And I found all the answers to my questions in just a few minutes. I'm particularly interested in the stove-top mini biab. I haven't read the Commentary yet but it's the next thing I'll do
I'm from Versailles, France, I'm an embedded software engineer, and I haven't started homebrewing yet. I live in a small appartement so I don't want my brewing activity to take too much space. I discovered the BIAB method on the main french homebrewing forum, and I think it is probably the best solution for me. However Homebrewing is not very developed in france, very few people practice it compared to the US, and BIAB is even less practiced. So I googled BIAB and quickly stumbled on biabrewer.info. And I found all the answers to my questions in just a few minutes. I'm particularly interested in the stove-top mini biab. I haven't read the Commentary yet but it's the next thing I'll do
Post #4870 made 12 years ago
Good afternoon chaps.
I write my first post here from South Wales (old not New). I have stumbled my way through the last six months of kit brewing using various other forums, mainly based over here in the UK.
I have recently been reading up on the BIAB method with the intention of making a move across to min/maxi BIAB in the foreseeable future. This is why your (world) renown expertise attracted me here.
As i mentioned above I've been brewing one and two can kits over the last six months and have had a decent success rate, well no-one (mainly work mates and family) has poured any down the sink so that's a success in my reckoning.
My main reason for the switch to BIAB is even though I'm not a prolific beer drinker i do really enjoy a nice beer. Using BIAB I hope to be able to produce half size (12 litre) batches at least using mini/maxi techniques, possibly scaling down some of the multitude of recipes available over the internet.
Forgive me in advance for the glut of newbie questions that are sure to follow, but have already been impressed with the detailed explanations here, building confidence on the way.
So thanks for the info so far and I look forward to sharing your knowledge and experiences from here on.
VR
I write my first post here from South Wales (old not New). I have stumbled my way through the last six months of kit brewing using various other forums, mainly based over here in the UK.
I have recently been reading up on the BIAB method with the intention of making a move across to min/maxi BIAB in the foreseeable future. This is why your (world) renown expertise attracted me here.
As i mentioned above I've been brewing one and two can kits over the last six months and have had a decent success rate, well no-one (mainly work mates and family) has poured any down the sink so that's a success in my reckoning.
My main reason for the switch to BIAB is even though I'm not a prolific beer drinker i do really enjoy a nice beer. Using BIAB I hope to be able to produce half size (12 litre) batches at least using mini/maxi techniques, possibly scaling down some of the multitude of recipes available over the internet.
Forgive me in advance for the glut of newbie questions that are sure to follow, but have already been impressed with the detailed explanations here, building confidence on the way.
So thanks for the info so far and I look forward to sharing your knowledge and experiences from here on.
VR
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Post #4871 made 12 years ago
你们好！Hello from Beijing!
I currently live and work in the capital city of the People's Republic of China as an English language teacher. I'm originally from North Carolina but before moving to China last August spent the previous 4.5 years in Los Angeles, which is where I really developed a love for beer.
Ten days ago, I brewed (miniBIAB) my first beer ever (a stout) with much gratitude due to these forums. There was so much good info on this site that I skipped extract all together and jumped right in to all grain for my first batch. My stout is currently in the fermentor but I'm itchin' to bottle (!), even though I'm still hoping the gravity drops a little more.
I don't remember exactly how I first came across this site, but it was undoubtedly due to a Google search during the early phases of my homebrewing research. BIAB was a no brainer for me, especially here in Beijing where I have limited space, limited fund, and limited access to equipment. As soon as I found out about BIAB, I knew it'd be the best all-around option for brewing while living in China. This is site has been indispensable. It's my go-to place to find answers to all of my brewing questions!
Also, I had a blast learning BIABacus. What a great tool!
Well that's a bit about me! See you in the forums!
B
I currently live and work in the capital city of the People's Republic of China as an English language teacher. I'm originally from North Carolina but before moving to China last August spent the previous 4.5 years in Los Angeles, which is where I really developed a love for beer.
Ten days ago, I brewed (miniBIAB) my first beer ever (a stout) with much gratitude due to these forums. There was so much good info on this site that I skipped extract all together and jumped right in to all grain for my first batch. My stout is currently in the fermentor but I'm itchin' to bottle (!), even though I'm still hoping the gravity drops a little more.
I don't remember exactly how I first came across this site, but it was undoubtedly due to a Google search during the early phases of my homebrewing research. BIAB was a no brainer for me, especially here in Beijing where I have limited space, limited fund, and limited access to equipment. As soon as I found out about BIAB, I knew it'd be the best all-around option for brewing while living in China. This is site has been indispensable. It's my go-to place to find answers to all of my brewing questions!
Also, I had a blast learning BIABacus. What a great tool!
Well that's a bit about me! See you in the forums!
B
Post #4872 made 12 years ago
It is not often you will have an Administrator of the site welcome new members. The quality of just the last four posts in this thread shows though what sort of brewers the site attracts even in its currently primitive form.
It is great to have you here and apologies that, at this point in time, the information on the site is not as easy to find as we would like.
Welcome.
Pat
It is great to have you here and apologies that, at this point in time, the information on the site is not as easy to find as we would like.
Welcome.
Pat
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Post #4873 made 12 years ago
Hi,
I have been brewing beer and sake for quite a while. I wrote a book on sake brewing. The last beer I brewed was my first brew in a bag and I was very pleased with both the brew (Cry Baby) and the method.
I live in Oregon (west coast of the US).
I heard about this site from the basic brewing podcast.
Thanks,
Will
I have been brewing beer and sake for quite a while. I wrote a book on sake brewing. The last beer I brewed was my first brew in a bag and I was very pleased with both the brew (Cry Baby) and the method.
I live in Oregon (west coast of the US).
I heard about this site from the basic brewing podcast.
Thanks,
Will
Post #4874 made 12 years ago
Hey all,
From the Minneapolis Minnesota USA area and have brewed up 13 extract kits in the last year and a half. I started partial boil inside with equipment passed down from my father and quickly moved outside with a larger pot and propane burner. I've been looking in to a 3 vessel system when I stumbled in to this site from a link posted on the reddit/r/homebrewing community and am learning I'm pretty much set to try BIAB. I'm already learning a lot here and am excited for the weather to warm up so I can get started!
From the Minneapolis Minnesota USA area and have brewed up 13 extract kits in the last year and a half. I started partial boil inside with equipment passed down from my father and quickly moved outside with a larger pot and propane burner. I've been looking in to a 3 vessel system when I stumbled in to this site from a link posted on the reddit/r/homebrewing community and am learning I'm pretty much set to try BIAB. I'm already learning a lot here and am excited for the weather to warm up so I can get started!
Post #4875 made 12 years ago
Hi there,
Long time 3-tier brewer from Ohio-US. Looking to add BIAB to my repertoire, and maybe switch over completely someday.
Like others, I heard the recent Basic Brewing Radio podcast and come to the site to get more info on BIAB from the experts.
Thanks!
JustbrewOHIO
Long time 3-tier brewer from Ohio-US. Looking to add BIAB to my repertoire, and maybe switch over completely someday.
Like others, I heard the recent Basic Brewing Radio podcast and come to the site to get more info on BIAB from the experts.
Thanks!
JustbrewOHIO
