Hi to one and all'
One of the questions we, as new chums to the site are encouraged to answer, is "how did you stumble onto this site" Well, I stumbled on to it whilst browsing for BIAB info. Then I stumbled through the registration process and now, Finally am stumbling through my First post.
Let me get something off my chest and then we can all enjoy a level playing field of mutual interest.Being of the Upper age bracket, I am not at all conversant with computor speak or its requirements. Remember I did say "stumble" IMO the whole lead up to the full registration process is too verbose. This could be offputting to some. After all we are chatting about brewing beer in a special way we are not guarding nuclear fusion secrets.Thats it, Ive ended my rantings. Banish me to Siberia, send me to the salt mines butI beg you dont exclude me from the forum.
I,m Ken from Renmark in S A riverland Ive been kit brewing for approx. 50 years along with wines and other interesting styles of fermentation I also enjoy aquaponics and am currently in the process of building a cob pizza oven. Anyone who is nearby when the oven is commissioned is warmly welcomed to the feast
I await my sentence

new to here but have made 5 BIAB since I discovered it.

What an easy way to brew. Cut your brew day to about fours nice and easy.

Hey everyone, I'm Rory from Perth. I've been brewing kits for a few years but I'm really keen to get more involved in the process looking forward to learning heaps of stuff on this forum.

Hi All,

my name is Ian but friends call me Ebo so please feel free to do so! I am from Albion in Brisbane. I am very new to home brew and started with a mate giving me a fermenter and bottles.
I brewed one kit of drinkable fake lager in September last year before realising that temp control was my main concern. I researched this and spent the summer getting a fridge and fridgemate setup. While dong this I stumbled on BIAB discussions on AHB.

I decided quickly the merits of BIAB were clear and went straight for it using the technique described by NickJD (moving to AG for $30). I know that thread on AHB has been a bit divisive but the overall story for me has been so positive. Nick should be given full credit for his effort there. I moved to AG very cheaply and have now got 2 successful APAs under my belt which have great flavour. The first of which went down very well with a couple of brewers at the June BABBs meeting. That independent feedback meant it wasn't just me and my mates thinking it tasted pretty good! And that was my first AG brew and second brew ever.

A quick thanks to the admin team for being so proactive and community minded about sharing this knowledge and a place for enthusiasts to learn and enjoy.

Cheers
Ebo

Hi everyone, Joe from Leicester in the UK here. Really pleased to find out you don`t need to spend loads of hard earned on equipment and have a degree in alchemy to make a good beer. I`ve been doing kits and extracts and can`t wait to try a BIAB and learning from the experienced brewers with a few under their belts.

Hi folks! Doing my first biab tomorrow, glad to be part of the group

Hi,

another potential BIAB wannabe from the UK after reading some useful info on Jim's board. I've done kits, extracts, a couple of traditional AG using batch sparging but now looking for new ways of improving my process and it looks like I may have found one. For the cost of a bag, I am willing to give it a try...

Cheers!

Hi all,

I'm Bryan, from Reading in the UK.

I've been doing kit & extract brews since February this year and want to move to all-grain, so BIAB seems like a great idea.

I found this place after following a link from EoinMag on Jim's Beer Kit Forum.

Cheers,
Bryan.

Hi All,

I'm from the UK and have been brewing kits and from extract for several years with good results. Looking to move to All Grain brewing after reading about it, but found out about BIAB from the JBK forum in the UK.

Ongoing discussion about BIAB here: http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/view ... =2&t=34464

Just in the process of getting the goodies together to do my first BIAB and really looking forward to it.

Chris.

Hi everyone, my name is John and I'm from Illinois.

I ran across this site while searching for info on BIAB and it has loads of great info.

I've brewed a few extract batches and one all grain batch so far and now just looking to see what BIAB is all about - knowledge is power right?

I'm in the military and I do computer stuff.

Hey all. I'm from New Zealand. I've been brewing a short time (a few months now). I've made two IPA kit beers (unimpressed), 3 gallons of cider (currently fermenting), 2 batches of ginger beer (one exploded, the other is too sweet but pleasant). I've got an extract / partial mash oatmeal chocolate stout ready to bottle, and already tastes pretty good (I think!). So the next logical step is to go all grain.

I've read books about brewing and scoured the web for ideas, best practices, etc. Recently I found brewing in a bag! I believe it may well be the only way to get into all grain brewing.

I have the materials to get started (voile bag, grains, hops, etc). I'll be giving it a go this weekend. Look forward to discussing brewing with the community here.

Hello,

I am from Mukwonago, WI in the US. I have been brewing for just over a year now. I have brewed extract, BIAB and single sparge. I have liked the BIAB because of the ease of brewing with the great flavor of all grain. I am an mechanical engineer.

PuNk, Brian

Greetings from Seattle WA,

Been brewing for 10 years. Looking at BIAB to consolidate equipment and take up less space. I'm stoked about techniques that push pre-conceived notions of "proper" brewing. This should be fun.

hashie wrote:Planner, good to see another Central Victorian here. I thought the Perth boys were going to take over

Thanks for the welcome Hashie. W.A. does seem to be the place to be at present (must be the HUGE salaries they're all on )

Not too much of a brewing culture here in Shepp, a few K&K, but that's about it.

Took the plunge weekend before last and launched into fist BIAB, a simple pale ale with PoR. I haven't bottled yet but all signs are promising.

Looking forward to more reading and learning.

Hi Everyone,

I am from country VIC Australia and have just purchased a new chinese 30L electric urn for a $100 and want to get into BIAB and AG brewing as I am not happy with the extract beer that I am making for the below reasons. I have brewed around 9 kit and kilo batches following the steps in how to brew by john palmer with a 9L pot and so far no infected batches that I can taste. I have tried brewing with crystal malt, extra hop additions and adding this to kits which some tasted good but one ended up way too bitter, I think I calculated it to be around 60 IBU so LOL it is very very bitter. Now I have the brewtarget software and a larger pot hopefully my odds have increased at making better beer. My last 2 brews were trying to clone a beer I like using extract and I made good beer, it was no where near close to what I was cloning. I had no idea that you need to match the boil size and gravity of the wort in a recipe if you do not want to ajdust the hop aditions so this is the reason to moving up to AG to simply make it easier to follow all the recipes that are on the web without having to spend hours converting to extract.

So finally I am sold on the URN BIAB method as my town does not have gas and my stove is electric. I am told the stove wont boil anywhere near 26L of water and I do not have a large brewing pot yet, so getting the URN made sense as I now have a pot large enough and a way to keep it boiling without going to bottled gas which would take up more room in the shed and cost more $.

I have an excellent mud brick shed with pot belly stove and a loft made of strong beams over my brewing bench, so mounting a pulley system above the urn is going to be very easy. I already have heaps of pulleys as I am into rock climbing. Cant wait to get access to the BIAG guide and try it all out for the first time in the next few days.

Thanks for the great site and info.

Matt

Hi all,

I'm from Atlanta, GA USA and have brewed a few extract kits. I'm interested in the brew in a bag method as a live in a small apartment and I already have enough brewing equipment in my living room!

Hello! I am new to the site but not brewing. Had a great experience with BIAB this week so I thought I might seek more info about it.

Eric here, just got into BIAB... super cool method of upgrading my brews from extract with essentially the same process. Somebody had their thinking cap on

great site!

hello from Rhode Island, USA. Brewed an all grain batch using BIAB last week, first one. It's fermenting away right now. I'm pretty sure I'll be going to no-chill brewing from here on. I'm looking forward to committing to BIAB and no-chill as my methods, and just concentrating on brewing a large variety of beer. I'm sure I'll be spending lots of time on this site learning new techniques.