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Post #976 made 14 years ago
by Lylo
Welcome Horace!!I'm goin for the gold.Pat let me introduce Horace!Horace has been a registered user for about 10 minutes and I am sure he is working on his first post as I work on this.I believe this might be the fastest welcome on record. :champ:
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Post #979 made 14 years ago
by Josh
G'day BIABrewers. My first post here because my mash tun has been retired after a lengthy service history. I am considering BIAB as a viable alternative to a 3 vessel system.

Some of you may know me as Josh on the AHB forum. Others as whoateallthepies on the Brewing Network forum.

I'm from Sydney and found the site after Thirsty Boy pointed me here in his post about a BIAB demo at Grain and Grape this weekend.

So far I think the site has some good info. I am hoping to discover even more info once I become a fully fledged member.

As mentioned before, I had a mash tun. Have been homebrewing for nearly 12 years. All grain for about 9. I have a home made stire plate and flasks ranging from 500ml to 5L. My favourite styles to brew are malty lagers. My fermentation fridge has Oktoberfest, Doppelbock and Black Bock all on the go right now.

I work for the government. Don't hold that against me. If you need to move something over the border, PM me.

Cheers,

Josh

Post #980 made 14 years ago
by pernod
Hi there!

I'm a newbie in Oslo, Norway. After a few extract batches I have brewed one BIAB batch of Kölsch that is currently in primary and looking good.

I improvised a bit with a random mashing bag I found at a local homebrew show, with some success (57% efficiency is not brilliant, I know ..). Next step will be to see if I can get something that fits my pot better.

Look forward to learning a lot here. Cheers!

Per Christian

Post #981 made 14 years ago
by Enggboy
Hello Everyone,

I am here to pop my BIAB forum cherry. A couple friends and I have been using the "just add water" pre-made wort kits for the last year or so, and we have decided to bite the bullet and get a best all-grain setup we can afford... a 36 qt turkey fryer (two of us a brand new fathers, so money is tight). To answer the anti-spam questions:

1. Where are you from?
1a. I am currently living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It occasionally gets cold...

2. How did you stumble across the site?
2a. I joined an Ontario mailing list and was pointed here as a cost effective way to go all-grain.

3. What you think of it so far?
3a. Good. I have not delved deep into it yet, but I plan to do a lot of reading.

4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
4a. As above, we are buying kits from The Brewhouse. These are 15L concentrated wort, that you dilute to 23L, add pH stabiliser and pitch yeast. We have been experimenting with modifications to them, like adding oatmeal to the stout, home-made lime extract to the Mexican Cervesa, raspberries to the wheat and maple to the cream ale, but we decided to jump up and go all grain for the challenge and (hopefully) the quality.

5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?
5a. I am a Mechanical Engineer. At the age of 28 I am a long way from retiring. I do dream of opening a nano-brew one day (just not in Alberta as the laws are prohibitive and require minimum capacity and throughput).

Well, that is me proving I am not spam. I am happy to be here!
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Post #983 made 14 years ago
by shibolet
ThreeCats wrote:My answers, in order:
1. I'm from Kiryat Bialik, Israel. A small town just north of Haifa
2. I got to this site by searching for Brew In A Bag in google. It was later also recommended to me by a fellow Israeli brewer who's on the site
3. It is very informative, though some digging is required to get to all the information. For example, I stumbled on to this thread, but no where in the registration did it say I should post here to become a full member.
4. I've just started brewing. My first beer was a kit, and I was going to move on to E+g from there. Unfortunately, it turns out that it;s much harder to get extract around my neck of the woods than just grain, so I figured that I'd just move straight to a.g. and save myself the hassle. BIAB seems like a good way to do that at minimum investment.
5. I work as a software engineer and brew beer in my spare time, amongst other hobbies
Welcome aboard T.C.
link your blog in your signature. it's a good read and google will do a reasonable translation.
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Post #984 made 14 years ago
by smyrnaquince
Hello, all!

I live in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. Concord was the first non-tidewater community in the US and is the location of (what we here call) "the shot heard 'round the world" when, in 1775, the colonists stood up to the British regulars who had come out from Boston to confiscate cannons and other arms.

I found references to this site on http://www.homebrewtalk.com/, where I am a member.

The only confusing thing on this site so far is that it took me a while to figure out that I need to post here to become a full-fledged member.

I got started in this hobby making cider, with the goal of making something similar to a French cider. (I'm still working on that, but getting closer.) From there, I branched out into 1-gallon batches of wine: mead (honey wine), blackberry, elderberry, and raisin. My latest wine is 4 gallons of black currant wine. I kept saying that I didn't want to make beer because it was too complicated, but then the LHBS had a sale and I decided to try a stout. (I love stout and my wife does, too.) So, I borrowed the buckets and made an extract batch. A week later, I got the bug to make a hefeweizen, so I borrowed another bucket and made an extract batch of that, too. I bottled the stout after 3 weeks in the fermenter and the hefeweizen after 2 weeks. This Saturday, they will finish their 3 weeks of carbonation. I plan to drink the hefeweizen over summer (which we are heading into here) and save the stout for the fall, which will give it time to age to be ready when the cooler weather hits. I'm getting tempted to try an all-grain. I realized that if I do a BIAB half-batch, I won't need to buy any additional equipment, so here I am!

Yes, I work (systems engineer), but when I meet new people, I ask them what they do for fun instead of asking them what they do. It is scary how many people go silent in answer to that question! For me, the answer is (in addition to beer/cider/wine making): rock climbing, Scouting (I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster), fiddling (Irish and Scottish), travel, some shooting (plinking), and trying to have fun with my kids before they grow up and move out.

Oh, yeah. My login is because I have a Smyrna quince tree. I love quince, but most Americans have no idea what they are. I have a few other fruit trees, as well.

Post #985 made 14 years ago
by hashie
Welcome aboard smyrnaquince and what a great first post.

I like your idea of asking people what they do for fun as opposed to what they do for money. I've always found judging people on their occupation odd.

Anyway, I hope you have fun here and find/give some quality information.

Cheers
"It's beer Jim, but not as we know it."

Post #986 made 14 years ago
by rwegner
Hi,

I live and grow organic hops on our farm in the lovely area of Pontiac, Quebec.

I have been brewing for a number of years doing partial mash using extract so am looking forward to getting into all grain using BIAB.

Cheers,
Richard

Post #989 made 14 years ago
by jmstortz
Hi,

I am from Missouri, USA and live near St. Louis. I am currently working full time but am retiring in September this year.

I first started brewing about 10 years ago. I brewed a few batched from kits and then quit.

I started up again 6 months ago. I did a few mini-mash kits and decided I wanted to go whole grain. I built my own mash tun from a cooler and brewed 2 batched full grain and really enjoyed it.

I then read about BIAB and saw a video about it on YouTube. My last batch was a BIAB and it is still in a secondary fermenter.

I found your form searching the web. I am anxious to learn more about BIAB particulary brewing small batches. I would like to experiment with different styles of beer but producing 5 gallons per batch is much more production than I can consume.

Looking forward to further exploring the site.

jmstortz
Joe Stortz

Post #990 made 14 years ago
by Killer
Hello everyone,

I used to make beer from kits about 10 years ago, some were good and some not...
I'm originally from Dublin but live in Paris now, maybe not the best place to be brewing your own beer.
I wanted to have a go at 3 vessel brewing but live in an apartment and was anyway excited when i saw BIAB.
I'm an organic chemist and wanted to see if I could add anything to the method though obviously my main reason for doing it is for the beer and to try to recreate some of the beers and ales I found when I lived in the UK.
I really like the look of the site and I'm glad there are old hands about to help us newbies...
I also happy to see that champagne bottles hold a crown cap (used in one of the stages of champagne making)
so I hope to save on glass bottles !

Cheers all

Cillian

Post #991 made 14 years ago
by liljimmynorton
Wow, great site. I linked over from homebrewtalk because I have been thinking about biab for a while. I live in Maryland and brewed 5 yrs ago before my first born. Got out of it and about 2 yrs ago after my second decided to get back into it. I bought everything AGAIN and made a few batches last summer. Was all propane until now. Recently separated and now living in an apartment I had to find other ways. So I am in the process of building a dual 2000w element keggle controlled by and Auber PID. I will be doing this all in my one bathroom and wanted the simplest all grain. I was looking for good info on HBT and saw this site linked. Where else to get all the info I need but here. Thanks for putting it all together, for a while I was gonna go extract again but now I am confident AG is my way now.

Rob

Post #993 made 14 years ago
by BrianOR
Hi all,

Brian from Rockdale, Sydney here.
I'm fairly new to brewing, having done a half dozen extract batches so far.
I've been busy digesting all I can get my hands on relating to home brewing for the last 6 months or so, loving the AHB site and Jamil & John Palmer books & podcasts in particular.
I'm planning my first BIAB for this coming week, a 23l batch of the "Dr Smurto's Golden Ale" recipe from the AHB site.
There are still a few details I need to get my head around, such as changes to hop additions for no-chilling, and water profile adjustments.
But loving the journey so far.

Cheers,
Brian.

Post #994 made 14 years ago
by techyakker
Hiya all.
Located in New Jersey, and have brewed a 1/2 dozen extract brews.
Getting kinda thrown in here after following a link from HBT.
Why: I ordered a kit from an online store, not realizing it was an all grain kit not extract.
I broke a rule by ordering online late at night after sampling a few home brews :lol:
Anyway, after researching online and reading up on BIAB method, I have wound up here.
So far it looks like I'll need a propane burner and a larger brew pot as I've been brewing indoors on the stove with a 5gal pot, and probably an immersion chiller to get the temp down on a full boil.
Other interests are kayak fishing,support my hobbies by being in technical support, hence techyakker.
Site looks great so far.
Rich

Post #995 made 14 years ago
by CanBrew
techyakker wrote:Hiya all.
Located in New Jersey, and have brewed a 1/2 dozen extract brews.
Getting kinda thrown in here after following a link from HBT.
Why: I ordered a kit from an online store, not realizing it was an all grain kit not extract.
I broke a rule by ordering online late at night after sampling a few home brews :lol:
Anyway, after researching online and reading up on BIAB method, I have wound up here.
So far it looks like I'll need a propane burner and a larger brew pot as I've been brewing indoors on the stove with a 5gal pot, and probably an immersion chiller to get the temp down on a full boil.
Other interests are kayak fishing,support my hobbies by being in technical support, hence techyakker.
Site looks great so far.
Rich
Welcome techyakker. :)

Talk about jumping into all grain! I have done batches on the stove with a 5 gallon pot. Check out Ralph's post about doing larger batches without a large pot.

viewtopic.php?f=89&t=352

I did the chilling in the winter by just setting it outside with a tight fitting lid in -20 C weather (about -4 F) but I'm sure you could chill it in a tub full of water.
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Post #996 made 14 years ago
by dhardy
Evening all,

I'm David from the UK, I was brewing from kits around 25 years ago and have recently got back into it. I was well on my way to a 3V setup and have virtually all of the parts I needed, have now decided to hold off drilling holes in anything until I've given biab a whirl!

Currently I'm holding on to 2x 100 litre s/s pots and an 80 litre thermpot that was a mash tun to be until I've decided what I'm doing and researching where I can get a voile bag made up :-)

Post #998 made 14 years ago
by PistolPatch
Once again, thanks to all the new members for the great reads above. Welcome aboard :thumbs:
Nolan wrote:... I went to the BIAB demo at grain and grape and I can't wait to get started. This site seems like it will be a wealth of knowledge, hints and tips...
I always hear great reports on the Grain and Grape BIAB demos. ThirstyBoy has been doing an excellent job with these - good on him! Hope you managed to have a beer with him. Melbourne has a great brewing community so you'll be in good hands there.

:peace:
PP
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Post #999 made 14 years ago
by efaden
1. Where are you from? Rochester, NY
2. How did you stumble across the site? A local brew buddy turned me on to BIAB
3. What you think of it so far? Cool.
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? Few years of extract brews. Done one or two All Grain brews and one BIAB. The idea of BIAB is really cool and I came here to learn more about it.
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? In Medical School.

Post #1000 made 14 years ago
by tsmeltzer
Hi my name is Todd and I live in the Pacific Northwest. I have been brewing over a year now, mostly partial mashes. I just upgraded my set up and will begin my BIAB adventures shortly. Homebrewing is one of the best hobbies I have ever picked up. I love beer!
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