Just To Say... A Big Thanks.

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A member of my local home brew club has a 295 L (78 gallon) stainless steel kettle that was employed today as a mash tun in 3V brewing style. About 68 kg (150 pounds) of grain was used.
When they cut up a SS curly pad to stuff around the false bottom edges I thought, "Why not use a bag?" When they transferred the hot mash-out and sparge water from kettles on the overhead deck to the 295 L tank I thought how I don't have to do that at all . When they opened the valve on the big tank and drew off grain-filled, then cloudy, then clear liquor into pitchers for return to the tank I thought how nice it is to skip all that. There were pumps and hoses everywhere.
The resulting volume of sweet liquor was then distributed in 19 L (5 gallon) lots to members for either immediate on-site boiling/hopping, chilling, & pitching or for transport home. I counted a dozen propane cylinders in use at one time or another.

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Granted, I cannot brew on this grand scale, but BIAB is a beautiful thing by comparison. Thanks to the pioneers of single vessel brewing and also for the BIABacus.

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I entered my local Home Brew Shop (HBS) and the owner immediately pointed me out to two customers who were purchasing grains and equipment for their first BIAB attempts. I am still the only BIABer in the club that meets there so she thought I might be a help. The best advice I could provide was to steer them to this site and suggest that some reading and a decent effort at filling out the BIABacus would be wise. Their crushed grains were already bagged and I could see in their faces that they were itching to get brewing right away. Ah, the enthusiastic beginner! Even my suggesting a 90 minute mash (instead of 60 in their recipe) was going to prolong their wait for beer.
The owner succeeded in selling some doodads I don't use - I kept quiet on those - and the buyers left. I hope they have enough success that they will be back and that maybe they are open to what this repository of knowledge can provide. One can be frustrated by having to correct misinformation about BIAB that should have died by now; grain crushing and mash time and temperatures, etc. I am only one recent convert and no expert like those who made this site, but don't you guys sometimes just want to scream, "Wake up!"
I love this stuff and the learning opportunities, thanks.

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Haven't been able to post on here for a long time (pretty painful spinal injury) and this might be my last post for a bit as am, more than ever, I'm running behind.

Just wanted to say I enjoyed reading the above because it says that the site is making things easier for at least some brewers. And yep SP, it is very frustrating when you do see, "misinformation about BIAB that should have died by now..." Dealing with/combatting misinformation, in the painstaking, time-consuming, one-on-one manner we have been doing so far, I think has been good up until now.

It has been good because it has forced us to write and explain things over and over again, each time trying to find better ways of explanation and develop better tools, many of which have actually resulted in what, I think, will become totally new paradigms in brewing.

After having written about four million words in one on one posts, emails etc, and just finishing about five weeks of abstinence from this, I think that I am going to have to ban myself from these one on one writings from now on and focus on structuring and presenting what we have learned here, in a manner where it can be disseminated as efficiently as possible.

Until that job is completed to some degree of success, I hope that no one will miss my long posts, that the brewers who do similiarly long and careful posts keep going, that others will take up any slack and enjoy handing on what they learn or discover, that some of them will enjoy detailed writing of replies, that all new members will be made feel welcome, their enthusiasm appreciated and that they, in turn, don't take time given them for granted and....

Someone with programming skills who fully understands the complexities of the BIABacus from a programming point of view and the simplicities we need from a GUI point of view. (The only person who has really got this to date has been Kostass.) We also need a graphic designer, phpBB expert etc.

By tomorrow!

PP

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