Hello James, welcome to the site. This site is a great resource and the guys on here are really helpful. Your English is great so no worries. Enjoy your new obsession.

Hi, my name is Scott, and I live in the small town of Jefferson, Oregon (USA).

My first beer was brewed back in college, December of 1993. A friend had shared a beer he made, and I thought, "if he can make it, so can I". Made just 5-6 batches over the next 3 years... Had decent success, but also had enough failures that...after wife, kids and busy career, decided to stop brewing my own beer until I had the time, energy and money to invest in Cornelius kegs. (Hated sanitizing bottles, and estimating corn sugar to add for bottling - never got it right). There are lots of good microbrews up here in Oregon so not brewing really was not a problem.

My son (17 in May) had become very interested in beer, wine and spirits, and wants to get into fermentation science. I got back into brewing about a year ago so that he could participate legally in the process. So far I have been very happy with the beers that we produced - MUCH better then the beers produced earlier - and so am looking to expand into all all grain brewing. It enables me (us) to make beer that is not common with breweries in my area. So far almost all of my beer has been produced from malt extract, although the batch before last I did a mini mash.

Doing research into how to best get into all green brewing. I did wonder why it's doing half of the mash from a bag (mini-mash) would work why wouldn't doing all of the mash by a bag work...? (Figured had to be a reason). Also the brewing day for me when doing an extract beer seems to run five or six hours by the time all the cleaning is done. I ran into some posts and online articles on BIAB and it looks like this is the best way to get into brewing all grain beer; easier, less equipment needed, less cleaning. I'm going to need to invest in more equipment to be able to do this (bigger pot, BIAB bag, and I want a 6.5 gal big mouth plastic fermentor). It really would be nice though before I make this investment in additional equipment to better do BIAB, to review what other home brewers are using.

It looks like this website has a a lot of information and I look forward to spending time going over it and learning a lot. Thanks!

Welcome Scott. I wouldn't brew if I lived in Oregon. Great beers out there...

BIAB is fun, easy and the best method of AG. Try out the BIABACUS. The time for thinkers has come...

Joe , you will find the site very helpful(not like some of the other ones) .We're not all Austalians here just .....Just Beer Lovers We are all here just to teach and help us become better brewers !
Joe

cremorn, Welcome aboard. I think you will be pleased with the simplicity of BIAB.

knkni, I keep hearing about that Hollingdale character, but I think he stopped posting here when he became famous.... Kidding, welcome aboard and congrats on your first BIAB brew.

Twitchy, welcome! Good to hear you have the tools to start! Read up on the site before diving into the deep end. We are all here to help out.

Welcome Devin,

Plenty of good info here, and people to help when questions come up.

Welcome to the forum Denny, All Grain for two years but only 4 batches BIAB? Are you a convert from traditional 3 vessel? Everything you ever wanted to know about BIAB, but were afraid to ask is here on this site.

stinkyfeet, danakroyd,

Welcome to our happy zoo. We are here to help. (if you need it) or smart remarks if you deserve it? Welcome to our family of misfit brewers.

Welcome krazypara3165/Craig,

The chaps down the road certainly sent to the right place. Ooodles of info on this site. One of the nice things about the BIABacus is that it doesn't make many of the assumptions that other software does. As you gain experience and familiarity, you will see how much easier and more accurate it is. Where other software makes assumptions about important details, BIABacus will ask you to provide those details. The end result is that your brew day will smoother, and your brew will be more like you envisioned.

Go through the sections in order. Sections A, B, C, D and E are the main ones to worry about. Section W will help with Maxi BIAB. The rest will make more sense to you later down the road.