BIABrewer wrote: 1. Where are you from?
2. How did you stumble across the site?
3. What you think of it so far?
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?

Aaaah. So this is how I become a full member.

1. Melbourne, Vic (Edit: Australia. I didn't realise this place was so international). I have recently moved to Mitcham and work primarily in Box Hill, but I'm also in the city once or twice a week.

2. It was mentioned at a Grain and Grape BIAB demo that I attended on Saturday. It also came up in a Google search I did this morning about electric Keggles as boilers (This thread is why I'm here today).

3. It's a fairly convoluted sign-up process so far and not immediately obvious to someone who's been frequenting online discussion forums since the early 90s.

4. I've been brewing for about 18 months. That time has taken me from my first Coopers fermenter to now having three fridges dedicated to beer including a brew/condition fridge and a four tap keg fridge along with a bunch of other home made goodies like thermostats and this past weekend I've built a stir plate for a yeast starter.
I alternate my brewing between kit and fresh wort based recipes, but I'm very eager to get into grain brewing, which is where BIAG comes in, obviously. Amongst other priorities generally set by SWMBO, I'm about to start building a 3V system, which will very likely start out as a 1V BIAB system. Long term I plan to automate as much of my brewing as possible (Not because I don't enjoy the process, but for consistency) and for that reason I'm looking at electric heating (safer/easier to automate).

5. I've worked in IT for the past decade. I'm presently a Service Manager for an outsourcing house, mainly working with utilities but my background is billing application support. Like a lot of you guys I imagine, I dream of giving away this corporate IT business and running a brew pub or similar. SWMBO is generally very supportive of my brewing, though with getting married this year and a six week overseas trip, there is not a lot of budget to go towards equipment which is why I'm looking at a single converted electric keggle for my BIAB efforts.

Now, if someone can click the "This bloke is real" button, I can get back to that other threadand ask my question

Hello all!

Firstly I'd like to say thank you for providing this valuable resource dedicated to what appears to be a fantastically simple new brewing technique!

I'm from New England, USA and stumbled across this site after googling for alternatives to batch sparging. I am very excited to read up and interact with the community. I've been brewing for around 4 years doing all grain batch sparging for the majority. I have interned/worked at a local craft brewery and enjoy great beer with good people.

Bottom line is: I'm obsessed with minimalism and efficiency and this method seems to be right up my alley

hashie wrote: Post away now and I am sure someone here will be able to help you.

Thanks for the personal welcome, mate

Hello all!
I'm a moderately experienced home brewer from (it's true) Ideal Corners, Minnesota, USA. I've had good success with extract and specialty grain brews, using a 19l kettle on a propane burner. Because I have two wonderful LHBS close to home I do not feel too constrained, but still I have the desire to move to all grain. I first heard about BIAB via Pat Hollingsdale's podcast (I've listened to it 3 or 4 times).
Currently in the fermentor is a Kolsch (using the winter WX here in MN to provide no cost lagering temperature in my brewhouse. Whilst weighing my specialty grains in the LHBS grain room I noticed a special Kolsch malt from a maltster in Koln.
Putting one and one and one together, I plan on doing my first all grain, first BIAB and second repitch of an active yeast cake to brew another Kolsch this weekend.

Hi All I'm Matt "USMCMatt" from Orlando, FL

I just came across this site off another forum as my interest in BIAB grows. Haven't done it before but should soon. I've brewed several batches coming from small 2.4g batches of things, including steeped grains and such and making some awesome beers, but looking to do more AG style brewing. Also occasional meads.

Hello Everbody,
Born and raised in Sweden, currently living in Philadelphia.

This site was mentioned on Homebrewtalk.com and since I am interested in biab, I figured it is worth checking you guys out.

So far, so good. Need to do more exploring.

Currently doing extract on the stove. Been doing it for about a year...

Stay-at-home dad with my seven month-old son. It is very... interesting

G'day folks,

My name is Steve, I'm from Adelaide, South Australia and have been brewing for five years.

After a two year break I started on kits again, then did a few extracts with grain additions.

Six months on and ive got temp control, fridges, plenty of bits and pieces and have started collecting gear for my BIAB keggle set up.

I found this place from a topic at AHB and have started doing some stove top BIAB brews and looking forward to many more to come.

Cheers Steve

Thanks Joshua and will do.

Will be brewing a stove top soon, just need some grain.

Cheers Steve

Hello everyone. I've been brewing for about 5 years and doing BIAB for about 1 year. I built a a 45 gallon 3 vessel natural gas system with pulleys. Works great, love the simplicity of brew in a bag.

Hello Brewers,
I'm anxious to start my first batch of Black beer(Schwarzbier Lager) using BIAB. I only made a couple of extract batches and BIAB looks like the way to go.
I'm from South Florida and we don't have a lot of breweries here so I want to brew myself. I will be buying a 15 gallon SS kettle with drain valve and thermometer. A freezer for fermentaion chamber with a temp controller and a cornielius keg.
I like the Black beer recipe found in the BIAB_Checklist_blackbeer spreadsheet. I found this recipe in BeerSmith program and entered my equipment profile for my kettle size. I was wondering if I scaled this recipe correctly for my kettle? Do I just follow the steps in beersmith? I attached a copy of this recipe for anyone to see. Any help to make this beer would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Jimbo

PistolPatch wrote:Hi there Jimbo and welcome aboard ,

Great to see your enthusiasm. Before jumping in and buying your equipment, maybe start a thread or ask a few questions here. You might get a few ideas that you haven't considered etc or some advice on the best form of the equipment you are considering. I like your ideas above but could certainly throw in a couple of things that might help.

The black beer is a great beer. I've usually got 6 beers on tap and that is always one of them.

I'm out of time tonight but tomorrow, I'll have a look at your scaling and I'll post the results in this thread. I'll send you a PM once I have done this. Sorry for being in a rush tonight.


PP

Thanks a lot for all your help. I read some more in the thread about kettle types and sizes and decided to buy a 15 gallon kettle the same size I have in my recipe equipment profile but without the tap and thermo because it has caused problems with other brewers, like catching the grain bag and leaking/cleaning the tap. It looks like keeping it simple and basic is the smart way to go.

Jimbo