Hi All!

I'm from the Southern part of New Jersey, about an hour from Atlantic City and half an hour from Philadelphia, PA. My experience is extract brewing for a couple of years. I eventually upgraded my brew kettle to a Blichmann G2 10 gallons and started full boil extract brewing. After reading about BIAB, I decided to purchase a brew bag, cereal killer and pulley, now all that I need to do, is brew that first BIAB. I'm thinking of an Irish Red from Northern Brewer. I look forward to gaining all sorts of valuable information here and to help those on questions that I may have answers to.

Cheers!
Kevin

Hi all!

Incredibly happy to have stumbled upon this great looking website as my next brewing challenge will be to jump right into the BIAB method..

I've been making beer from simple 1- & 2-can pre-hopped extract kits since last Summer, and whilst that's good fun (and good value) I'm totally overdue for some real brewing action.

I have significant space and budget constraints for this hobby. For example, I'll be using a (small but nice) 15-litre (to the brim) stainless pot. I also plan to design and (with some assistance!) make a suitable BIAB bag.

I have lots to explore, and many initial questions I'm sure there are already answers to within this information-rich BIAB website!

Cheers
Adrian

G'day!

Aussie here living in Canada, trying to utilise some Aussie approaches to brewing beer and saving water. Haven't tried the no-chill method yet, as I've built myself a recirculating immersion wort chiller with a submersible pump and an Esky, using ice to chill the water, and the water at the end is used to clean my equipment.

I've tried a few all-grain BIAB batches now, getting close to my numbers but never hitting them precisely. I've been using Beersmith and I think it's a combination of not having the equipment profile and brewhouse efficiency precisely dialled in, and early batches not having good temp control for the mash.

Every brew is a new experience for learning and having fun, and every time I learn something new, hence joining this forum to delve well and truly down the rabbit hole to improve my batches.

There seems to be a wealth of information on here and most, if not all, should be able to help me.

Looking forward to the next step in this adventure!

Cheers

I'm from Katy, TX a suburb of Houston
I'm currently brewing my 4th batch
I use the SVA method and a conical plastic fermenter.
I currently work for a community college

Hi my name is Will, I’ve recently discover this exciting hoppy hobby as I’ve moved on my own for the first time. I hail from Virginia but I consider sc home ! Looking forward to learning the techniques and knowledge from you all and passing it down to those who want to get into this hobby. Cheers!

Hello - I'm from central Wisconsin, USA. I've done 5 batches so far. 3 extract/steeping grain batches from kits, 1 small extract/steeping grains batch from a recipe, and last weekend a small batch BIAB. Looking forward to learning from all the information available on this site.

Hi all,

I'm registering as I'm new to BIAB brewing - looking for a simpler process than 3v brewing.

I'm based in Cheshire, UK, and brewed extract kits previously and recently did an all grain batch in a friends Grainfather.

I'm aiming for smallish batch sizes to try many styles. I've got a couple of Burco 30L boilers and a variety of fermenting vessels from 16L to 30L.

I did my first BIAB brew yesterday. After reading various sources, was persuaded to go with full volume of water and batch sparge it. Scaled it for 11.5L based on roughly halving all quantities for 23L batch size. Mashed fine - All good so far. Drained off the liquor from the bag, then boiled. First issue - it was a vigorous rolling boil and the boil losses seemed very high. Hopped via a spider no issues. Protofloc 15 mins before end. Inserted immersion chiller. Cooled to around 20C in less than 4 mins. Super - get an SG reading 1054 vs target of 1055 - hmm, doesn't seem much liquor left.

Ok, transfer to fermenter. Just under 7L. Ok, losses to grain and evaporation higher than I realised. Quick final check of SG 1077!!! Oh, there's a weird suspension in the solution - evenly distributed throughout. Try and get it to settle - very slowly settling out but I'm assuming this is the protein break that, due to the small batch size had nowhere to go?

Still, it's fermenting away now and will see how it turns out. Will try a proper BIAB scaled batch!

Cheers
James

Hey everyone!

Ive tried a couple of brews now just with the mangrove pouches and a couple of extract tins (most eextravagant ive done is an irish stout with a couple of hops in addition).
Been researching a lot recently about AG brewing and decided to get myself a 50L stock pot and a 3 ring burner and give it a go doing a BIAB!

Im hoping to do a brew this weekend as i have a fermenter sitting around gathering dust. Grabbed a few recipes i like from beer smith and ordered up the ingeredients (hopefully arriving tomorrow).

I think i may have slipped up on the ordering for one of the recipes though as ive put all the data into the BIABcalc excel sheet (thank you to the created of that work of a genius!) and its saying ive only ordered a 3rd of the requires grains. does that seem right?
These are the recipes ive been looking at:

http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/ ... golden-ale
http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/ ... -stoutquot

The first one is all good to go by the looks of things. ive ordered up what it says on the link and the calc excel sheet said what you need is the same. the stout one however comes back that i need way more than what the creator used even when he was using a 50l pot?

All well and good for now as the 1st recipe it looks like the order i placed will be good to go when it arrives. the stout may have to wait a couple of months as the mrs is ready to give birth to our 1st son any week now!

Im also a little dubious about the method to use also, im planning on:

heat water in stock pot to 66 degrees
drop in bag of grains and clip to edge of pot so it doesnt touch the bottom
give it a good stir, put on the lid and wrap it in a blanket
stir it every 15 mins and check temperature has not dropped, if so heat back up to mash temp
remove bag of grains after mash time is complete and sqeeze to drain off any excess wort.
boil wort and add hops at allotted times.
wait for liquid to cool to roughly 25 degrees
pour into fermeneter and add yeast.

Any guidence anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated!!

Greetings all! My first post here, very excited to get going. I'm from the south shore of Boston, transplanted from north west Ohio.

I'm new to BIAB, only 1 beer so far; however, I've been a homebrewer since 1992 and started all grain, three vessel in 1995. We've recently downsized so I needed to downsize my brewing set up but I'm loving the BIAB especially since I've gone electric at the same time.

Thank you very much for all of the info! I was planning on doing just the golden ale brew this weekend but ordred up the grains milled for both recipes to save on delivery, found out they cant be stored for too long and decided to do both of them!

Everything seemed like it went well, the calculator helped a great deal with finding out what headpspace I should be at. Got the golden ale into the fermeneter today and have the stout in a chiller for the evening. Will put that into a fermenter tomorrow.

I will be using a secondary for the stout after 4 days. The golden ale i may just leave in primary for 2 weeks then prime in a bottling bucket and into the usual plactic bottles!

The only major issue ui ran into was getting the liquid after boil into the cooler. May have to invest in either a cooling coil or a stainless steel pot and drill a tap into the side (heard alluminium is not going to be strong enough).

Hello chaps, Jack here from the UK. Going to be attempting my first ever beer brew at home soon, it’ll be an all grain Brewdog Punk IPA kit. Nothing crazy but looking forward to it! My plan is to utilise BIAB going forward just for small batches in a 11L kettle :-)

Hi there. I am retired and live just outside Glasgow. I have just completed sorting out my brew shed and looking forward to doing my first BIAB. This site will be a great help to me with all the information that it contains. Will let you know how it goes.

Hi all,

I live in Thirroul, south of Sydney, and I'm just getting into all grain brewing (and brewing in general). I've now done three small batch brews. The second one was a failure and that's what led to me discovering this site. I've been using small mesh bags that came with a small batch kit for my grain. They work fine for a 5 litre brew but I tried to up things to 10 litres and realised that these bags weren't right. They were packed too tight with grain and the middle didn't get wet, so my OG was terrible - 1.020.

So I started searching for better techniques and this is where I ended up. I've got a 19 litre pot and now I just need a proper bag and I can get started on mini-BIAB. I've found lots of great recipes I want to try but I'm not sure how to get the grain quantities right for mini-BIAB, so I'm keen to have a play with BIABacus.

Looking forward to learning from all of you BIAB masters!

Cheers, Chris Riedy