Hello from Southwest Georgia. Been an AG brewer for 6 years & decided to give BIAB a try. Brewed a BIAB batch last week that turned out good even though I didn't plan very well. I was really trying to make sure everything was going to work with this new process.

Still a working stiff, also play music part-time, & brew for fun.

Found this place from homebrewtalk.com.

Look forward to the wealth of information available here. Thanks in advance.

Kevin

Hello everyone. I've brewed several extract batches and now want to try grain brewing with the BIAB process. This site looks like it has lots of info and I'm looking forward to my first BIAB brew.

Ed - Brookfield, Wisconsin

Newe member here. Just got all my equipment for biab brewing. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello All from the mountains of Arizona... yes we have mountains and even trees! I have been brewing on and off (more off than on for a few years there) for 25 years and back in the 90's had a LHBS in a small community in Eastern Oregon. Started brewing again about a year and a half ago with a young man who wanted to learn - extract/steeped grains/partial mashes - he has since moved away but in the mean time I became hooked? Obsessed? depends who you ask!

So as a somewhat active member of the HomeBrewTalk forum, wanting to step up to AG brewing I devoured everything I could on BIAB brewing. As a handicapped person (only one arm) I knew I had to design a "rig" I could brew on by myself regardless of my limitations; i.e. I can't lift heavy kettles/fermenters/bags of grain. So a PID controled eBIAB with recirculating mash seemed like the way to go. After hours of welding the brew stand, wiring the control panel and punching holes in a 16 gallon Bayou Classic kettle I have a rig that is performing above my expectations...Loving it and the beer it produces!

Here are a couple of links to the HomeBrewTalk build thread and a short Youtube video of it in action.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=582004 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY8iPZv7yDM

Thanks!
Don
Primary 1#: Sculpin'ish Clone
Primary 2#: nothing
Kegged: Joe IPA clone, Falconer's Flight APA
Bottled: Rye IPA, Blonde APA, Oatmeal Stout and Black Butte Porter Clone

Thanks Brew4me! Yeah... I seem to have trouble getting phone pics upright on that forum. I hope I can add to the discussions and help others make good beer.

I've got 6, 5 gallon batches in on the rig now and am starting to really dial in my numbers - boil-off rate, kettle/trub loss and line losses. Now I just have to find a brewing partner so my wife and I don't have to drink all this beer!

Thanks!
Don
Primary 1#: Sculpin'ish Clone
Primary 2#: nothing
Kegged: Joe IPA clone, Falconer's Flight APA
Bottled: Rye IPA, Blonde APA, Oatmeal Stout and Black Butte Porter Clone

Hi Guys ,


I am a long time BIABrewer based in Spain with over 200 brews under my belt using my trusty turkey fryer (47 litres) I placed first and second in the last two competitons that I entered and I wont be changing my method in a hurry.

I have decided to up my brew length and have purchased a new 70 Litre kettle so I need to use the BIABAcus once again to calculate my volumes..


Happy brewing guys

Dominic

Hi All, back brewing beer after a few year absense. I just bought a 33l pot and a Buffalo induction hob. I'm here really to learn more about BIAB and to understand if the kettle I bought is big enough to do full boil BIAB batches.

Scott wrote:Hello VinylJunkie,

Welcome to the forum. On size of your pot, just depends on your target brew size. Best time to ask the questions is before buying your equipment. Download the BIABacus and input data including kettle size. Fill out a recipe along with desired Volume Into Fermenter and it will allow you to see if your kettle can handle the volume or not. Maybe the size you have will work, or maybe you will have to brew smaller batches than desired). Anyhow, best of luck and let us know if we can help connect the dots for you.

Cheers Scott, yea only really start looking at the BIAB option after buying the pot. I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions.

Just checking this site out for the first time. Canuck.

Another new member from Texas. I just completed the assembly on my Brau Supply 120V system and hope to be brewing on it as early as next weekend.

Okay first post...

My name is Mike and I am originally from Orange County, CA but now living in the East Bay of the SF bay area. I am a Physical Therapist working in a local hospital. I found this site while I have been researching BIAB with numerous people on HBT referencing it. So far I have only briefly looked around the site but I can tell there is an incredible amount of useful information.

I started brewing In January of this year and I have done 5 extract batches (had to move in the middle of the year). As I got more comfortable with extract I tried different methods during the boil and fermentation to make the extract kits more of my own but this still left me wanting more control and customization for my brew...so here I am.

Im looking forward to brewing my first all grain batch with BIAB

Hello, my name is Ian, and I'm a brewaholic.

Well, kind of. I haven't brewed in about 3 years now, but in my prime, I was an avid 5 gallon AG Brewer with 50+ batches under my belt.
I've downsized my gear, mainly as a result of moving into a smaller apartment from a nice townhouse. (Who knew, Fort Collins in 2009 was so much cheaper than Denver in 2016!?!) I'm mainly focusing on 1 Gallon BIAB brews for now, until we decide to move to a bigger place.

I've never done a BIAB batch, but am excited to learn all about it. More than that, I'm super excited to get back into brewing.

I look forward to learning from everyone and sharing what I know and learn in the future.

Hello, I am Michael and have been extract brewing for a long time. Since I've retired, I have time to go to the next step and be a bit more creative. I haven't done BIAB before, but am keen to get started. I live in Brisbane, Australia.

Hi all,

Been brewing for a few years, haven't experimented with much more than a standard coopers mix, looking to learn a bit about how to create my own beer and be a bit more hands on.
From Sydney, craft beers are very popular, want to see how I go creating my own 'Stone & Wood Pacific Ale', any tips / direction will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeremy

Long time reader first time poster.

I have been brewing off and on for about 6 years. I have had many brew setups in those ) years because I like to expierement. Currently I am trying to unload all the random things I have collected over the years so I can purchase a picobrew zymatic.(yes I know lazy Brewer). Well in the meantime I don't want to stop brewing so inpurched a brew bag to use with my 16 gallon bayou classic pot on my induction burner. I habebbrewed 3 batches this way and it's awesome. I was having efficiency issues with my cooler mash tun to where it was either great or terrible. Since switching to BIAB my efficiency has been awesome. My first batch was in the 80s.
A little about myself I'm from Illinois and I have lived her my whole life and brewing beer is a addiction.

Thanks for this forum of great information.

No pulley yet and the reason for the zymatic is space. I could put it on a cart and roll it away currently I have 3 closets full of homebrew stuff and I'm trying to get down the the smallest footprint possible

Good evening!

Brian from southern California. Been extract/partial mash brewing for about a year now; looking to graduate to all grain here soon. I'm a techy type and love automating complex things, but I just don't have room for a full size three kettle system; the BIAB method seems to be a simpler single kettle system that'll work just fine. Only plan on ever producing five gallon batches so I'm leaning towards a 15 gallon electric kettle.

Look forward to learning!

Brian