Welcome Beman, glad to have you on board! Have a look around and ask as many questions as you can, we're here to help. (Geez, it's getting so you can't swing a cat around here without hitting an Ozzie)
--Todd
Post #6627 made 10 years ago
Hey Beman, welcome aboard! Grab the BIABacus and try it out, its a very valuable tool to plan, execute and evaluate your brewing. Ask any questions you can't find answers to here, lots of helpful folks around, and Happy brewing!
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Post #6628 made 10 years ago
Hi!
Greetings from Brazil! I ended up here when I was looking for a diagram for a new grain bag and found out tons of other useful info here.
I use a 7,5 L kettle (3,8 L bottled) and I'm increasing my batch to a 20 L kettle. I was going to change to a 2-vessel RIMS setup, but gave up as I live in an apartment and space is an issue. I decided to continue with BIAB to Keep the smaller setup and stove-top process.
I've done so far: 2 hefeweizens, 1 red Ale and 1 american IPA. With the new kettle, 1 hefeweizen (with lower OG than expected). I looking forward to use the BIABacus with My new setup.
Cheers!
Greetings from Brazil! I ended up here when I was looking for a diagram for a new grain bag and found out tons of other useful info here.
I use a 7,5 L kettle (3,8 L bottled) and I'm increasing my batch to a 20 L kettle. I was going to change to a 2-vessel RIMS setup, but gave up as I live in an apartment and space is an issue. I decided to continue with BIAB to Keep the smaller setup and stove-top process.
I've done so far: 2 hefeweizens, 1 red Ale and 1 american IPA. With the new kettle, 1 hefeweizen (with lower OG than expected). I looking forward to use the BIABacus with My new setup.
Cheers!
Post #6629 made 10 years ago
Hello:
Getting back into brewing. Moving into all grain using a RIMS.
My goal is to use total water volume in my mash tun and I'm working on getting the grain build and mash time down for my setup.
Located in Acworth, GA
jay
Getting back into brewing. Moving into all grain using a RIMS.
My goal is to use total water volume in my mash tun and I'm working on getting the grain build and mash time down for my setup.
Located in Acworth, GA
jay
Post #6630 made 10 years ago
VaporJay, welcome! That is a totally doable goal. Using the BIABacus makes that possible!!!
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Post #6631 made 10 years ago
Bxefer, welcome to you as well. Good job on finding the site. Most of the rest of us had similar past experiences. Best of luck!
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Post #6632 made 10 years ago
Hi Everyone
Just been told about this site by my local shop: Aberdeen Homebrew up in Scotland. Certainly is a lot of information here so hats off to the founders and contributors.
Of course with more information comes more questions which I'll outline below. First however a bit of background: I've been making homebrew for about 18 months. Kicked off with a starter kit from BrewUK and a variety of Kits from Woodforde's Wherry to Sundew which I particularly like. I saw an ad for a Badger Golden Glory Extract Recipe Pack from Craftybrews which got me to buy a large pan to mash and boil the ingredients in. That turned out very well so I decided to buy some of my own ingredients from my helpful local shop and jump right in with my own concoctions which is pretty much where I am now.
So I'm away to start once I can decide on a recipe that I can base mine on. However, the recipes I've managed to find on the site so far are all full volume i.e. all the water in rather than diluting it as you put it into the fermentation vessel which was what the Badger recipe did. Because of this I only bought a 20L pan which was plenty for the kit but not the recipes here. My questions boil down to the following (no pun intended):
1. If I only mash and boil half the volume of liquid say (with the same quantities of grain), then surely it will be twice the strength and therefore no different when I add the make up water in the fermenter?
2. The Badger recipe had a limited volume, about 500g, of barley which was mashed for 30min at 65C in about 6L of water but then 2.5kg of light malt extract was added at various stages of the boil. Is there anyway of calculating out the relative amounts of extract versus weight of grain mashed as I presume they both impart malt/flavour into the water?
Any comments and suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks
SiLowe
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Beer is the answer, but I can't remember the question.
Just been told about this site by my local shop: Aberdeen Homebrew up in Scotland. Certainly is a lot of information here so hats off to the founders and contributors.
Of course with more information comes more questions which I'll outline below. First however a bit of background: I've been making homebrew for about 18 months. Kicked off with a starter kit from BrewUK and a variety of Kits from Woodforde's Wherry to Sundew which I particularly like. I saw an ad for a Badger Golden Glory Extract Recipe Pack from Craftybrews which got me to buy a large pan to mash and boil the ingredients in. That turned out very well so I decided to buy some of my own ingredients from my helpful local shop and jump right in with my own concoctions which is pretty much where I am now.
So I'm away to start once I can decide on a recipe that I can base mine on. However, the recipes I've managed to find on the site so far are all full volume i.e. all the water in rather than diluting it as you put it into the fermentation vessel which was what the Badger recipe did. Because of this I only bought a 20L pan which was plenty for the kit but not the recipes here. My questions boil down to the following (no pun intended):
1. If I only mash and boil half the volume of liquid say (with the same quantities of grain), then surely it will be twice the strength and therefore no different when I add the make up water in the fermenter?
2. The Badger recipe had a limited volume, about 500g, of barley which was mashed for 30min at 65C in about 6L of water but then 2.5kg of light malt extract was added at various stages of the boil. Is there anyway of calculating out the relative amounts of extract versus weight of grain mashed as I presume they both impart malt/flavour into the water?
Any comments and suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks
SiLowe
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Beer is the answer, but I can't remember the question.
Post #6633 made 10 years ago
SiLowe, Welcome to the Forum!!
Standard Mash will give you a maximum SG of 1.070 to 1.080sg, due to the Amount of Sugars that the Mash Can work with.
So, if you plan to have a SG of 1.035 to 1.040SG, Your Idea may work well. JMHO.
If you mash Un-Malted Barley and you first reach the gelatinization temperature of 60-62C, you will make the starches available to mash.
If there are no malted grains that are at least Equal to the Weight of the Barley, there will be Unmashed Starch left in the beer and it will cause a lot of 'Chill Haze'. BTDT
Now, if your Using Malted Barley, 500g gram(1.10 Pound(us)) in 6 litre(1.58Gallon(us)) with 80% extract potential should give you .80*46*1.1Pound/1.58Gallon OR about 1.025SG.
The extract will give 36 Gravity points per pound so 2500/454 = 5.5 Pounds into 6 Liter/1.58 gal. will give you an additional Gravity of 1.125sg
Your total comes out to be 125 + 25 or 1.151SG. Pretty high starting GIB. So I Hope you dilute this Batch. JMHO
Good Luck.
Standard Mash will give you a maximum SG of 1.070 to 1.080sg, due to the Amount of Sugars that the Mash Can work with.
So, if you plan to have a SG of 1.035 to 1.040SG, Your Idea may work well. JMHO.
If you mash Un-Malted Barley and you first reach the gelatinization temperature of 60-62C, you will make the starches available to mash.
If there are no malted grains that are at least Equal to the Weight of the Barley, there will be Unmashed Starch left in the beer and it will cause a lot of 'Chill Haze'. BTDT
Now, if your Using Malted Barley, 500g gram(1.10 Pound(us)) in 6 litre(1.58Gallon(us)) with 80% extract potential should give you .80*46*1.1Pound/1.58Gallon OR about 1.025SG.
The extract will give 36 Gravity points per pound so 2500/454 = 5.5 Pounds into 6 Liter/1.58 gal. will give you an additional Gravity of 1.125sg
Your total comes out to be 125 + 25 or 1.151SG. Pretty high starting GIB. So I Hope you dilute this Batch. JMHO
Good Luck.
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Post #6634 made 10 years ago
Hi
I'm Reg from Geelong.
Been brewing kits on and off for 30 odd years.
Last year decided to get a kegging system happening after years of bottling :(
and now I've progressed to BIAB with 2 successful brews under my belt.
Love the site. So much info here!
I'm Reg from Geelong.
Been brewing kits on and off for 30 odd years.
Last year decided to get a kegging system happening after years of bottling :(
and now I've progressed to BIAB with 2 successful brews under my belt.
Love the site. So much info here!
Post #6635 made 10 years ago
Joshua
Thanks very much for the feedback and useful ratio's to work with. I've got some Ritchies Crushed Pale Malt grain and a light Malt Extract as well. I think I'll probably use a combination of the two (plus some Goldings hops) but just do a half batch of about 12L as its my first foray off piste so to speak
Could be a few weeks till I've space in my keg from the last batch but I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks again
Thanks very much for the feedback and useful ratio's to work with. I've got some Ritchies Crushed Pale Malt grain and a light Malt Extract as well. I think I'll probably use a combination of the two (plus some Goldings hops) but just do a half batch of about 12L as its my first foray off piste so to speak
Could be a few weeks till I've space in my keg from the last batch but I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks again
Post #6636 made 10 years ago
Welcome Jackdaw,
Great to hear your back to Brewing, and BIAB is your Brewing Method.
Let us know if you have any Questions, and how your Bear Finishes!
Great to hear your back to Brewing, and BIAB is your Brewing Method.
Let us know if you have any Questions, and how your Bear Finishes!
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6637 made 10 years ago
Hello, my name is Adam Schmidt and I'm a newbie getting into the world of home brewing. I have decided to perhaps be a little reckless and skip the whole extract brewing process entirely and jump straight into all-grain with brew in a bag. It seems like extract brewing just compromises some of the elements that make brewing fascinating, so I felt like BIAB was the way to go for me. On-to the questions:
1. Where are you from?
I am from Connecticut
2. How did you stumble across the site?
Doing research on BIAB methods, it's pretty common to find links to this site
3. What you think of it so far?
So far I haven't looked around enough to come up with a worthwhile opinion. I'm sure it will be a wellspring of knowledge however.
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
Never brewed before, this is all black magic to me so far.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?
Yes, I work in the IT industry.
1. Where are you from?
I am from Connecticut
2. How did you stumble across the site?
Doing research on BIAB methods, it's pretty common to find links to this site
3. What you think of it so far?
So far I haven't looked around enough to come up with a worthwhile opinion. I'm sure it will be a wellspring of knowledge however.
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
Never brewed before, this is all black magic to me so far.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?
Yes, I work in the IT industry.
Post #6638 made 10 years ago
Syncharmony, Welcome to the Forum!
Since your new to brewing, You can Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
and get "The BIABacus - Help" at http://biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=1863
and read the "Clear Brewing Terminology (CBT)" http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2685.
There is a steep leaning Curve, but, should be raedy to brew some Christmas Beer!!
Since your new to brewing, You can Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
and get "The BIABacus - Help" at http://biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=1863
and read the "Clear Brewing Terminology (CBT)" http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2685.
There is a steep leaning Curve, but, should be raedy to brew some Christmas Beer!!
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6639 made 10 years ago
Hello,
my name is Davide I'm from Italy but I'm living in Adelaide. After few years, i'm ready to back again in the homebrewing world. I've done several kit and E+G in my country but i'm looking to start soon with BIAB.
Thanks to everyone for make this community a real brew-encyclopedia. I hope to use BIABACUS soon.
I'll see you around guys.
Ciao !
my name is Davide I'm from Italy but I'm living in Adelaide. After few years, i'm ready to back again in the homebrewing world. I've done several kit and E+G in my country but i'm looking to start soon with BIAB.
Thanks to everyone for make this community a real brew-encyclopedia. I hope to use BIABACUS soon.
I'll see you around guys.
Ciao !
Post #6640 made 10 years ago
Glad to have you here Davide! BIAB is the way to go........if you have prior experience with the brew kits then you're already 99% of the way to all grain brewing. Let us know if you have any questions.
---Todd
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Post #6641 made 10 years ago
Greetings from Columbus, Ohio. I stumbled across the site in looking for ideas for a DIY electric kettle setup. The information has been helpful so far. I have brewed before but just started again so still in the "just starting" phase. Currently doing extracts and want to do more and like BIAB.
Post #6642 made 10 years ago
Welcome to the Forum, Schaefsn.
The electric kettle is a great way to brew Inside. BIAB is the Best Way to Brew Anything!
Let us know if you have any Questions, and we will give you help.
The electric kettle is a great way to brew Inside. BIAB is the Best Way to Brew Anything!
Let us know if you have any Questions, and we will give you help.
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6643 made 10 years ago
1. Where are you from? - Pacific US
2. How did you stumble across the site? Blog post about biabacus.
3. What you think of it so far? Great!
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? New to beer, made wine before.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? I am a student.
2. How did you stumble across the site? Blog post about biabacus.
3. What you think of it so far? Great!
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? New to beer, made wine before.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? I am a student.
Post #6644 made 10 years ago
Welcome Blankly, since you have Fermented Wine, your half way to make great beer!
Look around the site, and Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
This will help you make the best Wort. Then, move on the fermenting, which is very similar to wine, But, At lower temperatures.
Let us know your Questions, and some on us will always Answer
Look around the site, and Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
This will help you make the best Wort. Then, move on the fermenting, which is very similar to wine, But, At lower temperatures.
Let us know your Questions, and some on us will always Answer
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6645 made 10 years ago
Hey everyone! I'm from Maine and I found this site through various mentions on another home brew website/forum where I was trying to read and learn how to BIAB. I'm getting very close to making an equipment purchase and I want to be as informed as possible before I spend my money. I like what I've seen so far on the site and look forward to seeing more. It's been 8 or so years since I brewed (and back then it was strictly extract and bottling), and I'm looking forward to all grain and kegging this time around. And yes I've still got to put in another 20 years of work until I retire, but I think making my own quality home brew will help get me through it! :-D
Post #6646 made 10 years ago
Welcome Neptune,
I recommend you should Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
and get "The BIABacus - Help" at http://biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=1863
Before you Buy a Kettle/Stockpot you should know BIAB is a one Vessel brewing System.
The Bag and Grains CAN take up the same volume, that the Volume of Sweet Liquor that you will need to Boil.
This means If you want to Brew 5 gallons, You should get a 10 gallon/40 Quart Stockpot and a heat Source that will Boil 5 gallons.
FYI, Thanksgiving is coming, and there will be Propane "Turkey Fryer" Systems using a 10 gallon Stockpot and a 120,000 Btu propane Heater for Sale "Cheap". If you have fried a Turkey, you may have all the equipment needed already.
Let us know if you have any Questions, We will Answer or Discuss.
I recommend you should Download "BIABACUS" at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1869
and get "The BIABacus - Help" at http://biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=1863
Before you Buy a Kettle/Stockpot you should know BIAB is a one Vessel brewing System.
The Bag and Grains CAN take up the same volume, that the Volume of Sweet Liquor that you will need to Boil.
This means If you want to Brew 5 gallons, You should get a 10 gallon/40 Quart Stockpot and a heat Source that will Boil 5 gallons.
FYI, Thanksgiving is coming, and there will be Propane "Turkey Fryer" Systems using a 10 gallon Stockpot and a 120,000 Btu propane Heater for Sale "Cheap". If you have fried a Turkey, you may have all the equipment needed already.
Let us know if you have any Questions, We will Answer or Discuss.
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6647 made 10 years ago
Hi everyone!
Firt of all, thanks for sharing
I'm Luis, from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. I'm in the Spanish Navy where I work on aircraft maintenance. I've found this site searching about BIAB process. I'm preparing my first recipe yet, I hope to brew it the next week. I've got all the equipment for BIAB, but I'm looking for an old fridge yet to have controlled temp on fermentation.
Please sorry my poor English... :'(
Firt of all, thanks for sharing
I'm Luis, from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. I'm in the Spanish Navy where I work on aircraft maintenance. I've found this site searching about BIAB process. I'm preparing my first recipe yet, I hope to brew it the next week. I've got all the equipment for BIAB, but I'm looking for an old fridge yet to have controlled temp on fermentation.
Please sorry my poor English... :'(
Post #6648 made 10 years ago
Welcome Luis,
Nice to know your ready to brew BIAB!!
I am an American, and Your English is Very Good!
Let us know your Questions, and We will answer.
Good Luck.
Nice to know your ready to brew BIAB!!
I am an American, and Your English is Very Good!
Let us know your Questions, and We will answer.
Good Luck.
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #6649 made 10 years ago
Greetings from the southern U.S.! I am just getting started home brewing with batch number five currently fermenting. I live in an apartment so am confined to brewing small (~1.25 gal.) batches on my stove top. I switched to BIAB after my first two brews, and am glad to have found such an easy method. The hassle of a 3V setup makes no sense for my small-scale brewing. I'm looking forward to learning more about the fundamentals of brewing here.
Post #6650 made 10 years ago
Welcome to the Forum, Luder.
Mini-Biab is very easy to do in a Stove top Or Hot Plate.
Take a look at the Topic 'Stove-top BIAB (also known as Mini-BIAB)' at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewforum.php?f=23
When you have Questions, Just Post, and some of will answer!
Mini-Biab is very easy to do in a Stove top Or Hot Plate.
Take a look at the Topic 'Stove-top BIAB (also known as Mini-BIAB)' at http://www.biabrewer.info/viewforum.php?f=23
When you have Questions, Just Post, and some of will answer!
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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