Hey All,
My local brew shop held its annual Customer Appreciation day yesterday and I attended. I got there a bit late, so everyone was already pretty "happy", having consumed numerous samples of others homebrew that was brought to share.
[Earlier this week I was at the shop to purchase some grains and spoke with a fellow AG brewer there who I've met before, let's call him Phil. I told him of my love for the BIAB method. He was intrigued. He was amazed that without sparging I could hit my numbers. I told him how I made my bag using a voile curtain.]
Yesterday at the party Phil came up to me as I was evangelizing BIAB to a newbie (currently extract brewing), and he says, "Hey, how's that Brew in A Curtain thing going?" I had to laugh because he remembered that I used a voile curtain to make my bag.
I went on to explain the beauty and simplicity of this Australia-originated method to both of them and several others gathered in the circle, and I think I actually turned some heads.
Maybe for current all-grainers converting to BIAB will be difficult, but the new guys who are still understanding the alternatives for AG, and costs involved are ripe for the picking! It is hard to defend a 3 vessel expensive system when 1 vessel does the job.
It is exciting to be able to evangelize about BIAB. Thanks to all of you here who have developed this method and shared it with the brewing world.
On a side note, one of the guys at the party (Jamie) and a member of Wootown Brewers http://www.wootown.org/ won 1st place for his Porter at the AHA's NHC a few weeks back. He had a growler with a few glasses left and offered me some. Wow, good stuff. He's old school, so I doubt I'll convert him to BIAB, but then again you never know! He did remember that Brad Smith presented a BIAB seminar at the NHC, but he did not attend.
Just thought I'd share with everyone my experience this weekend. BIAB has a ways to go to get widespread recognition as a viable method, but it is exciting for me to be at the forefront of this wave of the future!
Cheers all!
MMD21
Discipleship for BIAB
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