curly73 wrote:Chad Here...
Hello everyone. from small town in Ohio. I haven't brewed in a couple years and I did all extract brewing before. probably 10 batches. I will be brewing my first BIAB this sunday. It will be a stout. Since I don't have a lot of money to spend right now I thought I would start out with BIAB. And will be on stove top. Looking forward to start brewing again and learning from this forum. Thanks

brew day went smooth.. took a little longer since I brewed on stovetop and ice bath chilled my wort..... So, just finished transferring to secondary. With being my first time BIAB I was a little surprised with the amount of trub I had... Anyways, all went as planned.. taste tested little and added some bourbon and chips. Couple more weeks to bottle....

Hello. I am from Auckland, New Zealand. I stumbled on this site when researching mini BIAB. Have been brewing BIAB for about a year. I am looking at getting into mini BIAB. I am looking forward to learning new tricks and techniques from the site. Thanks, Simon.

Hello all!

Stumbled across this site while searching for information on all grain brewing. I've been using kits for around a year and biab seems a logical next steps.

On first impressions the site looks to be full of interesting info on the subject - looking forward to working my way through it all and learning from the experience of other members

Cheers
Kirstin
(Edinburgh)

Hi, I'm David from Corvallis, Oregon, USA. I've been brewing for a bit over the year, and switched from extract to BIAB a couple of months ago. I found the site when I was looking for information about using flaked barley in BIAB. I'm happy to have found a repository of years of BIAB knowledge, and a community of experienced BIAB brewers.

Aloha, my name is Kawika and I'm from Hawaii, born and raised native Hawaiian. I found this forum from a link at the BIAB section of Homebrewtalk.com. I've been browsing for the past two days and was not planning on registering at first...but after some reading around here, I figured I'd really like to check out the BIAB-acus...so here I am!

I began home brewing in the 1990's as a young college student with my roommate. We used the Cooper's extract kits (back in those days, we did not have a local home brew shop, only a single liquor store in Honolulu sold the extract kits and associated supplies).

Anyhow, after I graduated from college and got married, I put all my brewing equipment away and hadn't touched it until 2 months ago (almost 18 years later!) when I and another buddy who also used to home brew in his youth decided to resume the hobby.

We've done 4 partial grain - Liquid Malt Extract batches so far, with a classic Irish Stout and IPA bottled and successfully taste-tested. We now have a local Porter recipe with toasted coconut and an Amarillo-hopped red ale clone recipe in secondaries and can't wait to try those out as well. So far so good.

We have been contemplating investing some money in the pricier kettles so we could step it up to All Grain brewing. I almost pulled the trigger on a couple of Bayou Classics on Amazon a couple of days ago...but luckily I decided to investigate the BIAB option first. The more threads I've read on this forum, the more I'm glad I didn't buy the kettles. Perhaps later, but I think I'm gonna give BIAB a real go as our first foray into All Grain.

I find it a bit amusing that I began homebrewing with an Aussie product (Cooper's extract kits) and now I'm here at an AU forum years later to research the progression to All Grain. I love AU and have visited twice. I've been to Sydney and Tasmania in '06 and '08. I found most Aussies to be far more hospitable and friendly than many other places in the world that I have been (my wife works for the airlines, so we've traveled pretty extensively in the last decade).

Anyhow, I would like to express my gratitude for ya'all and the knowledge and experience you've all posted up here in this forum, and I can't wait to try out the APA Amarillo mini-BIAB recipe (Amarillo is my fav hop, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover it is the focus of this forum's mini-BIAB guide thread!)

Mahalo!

Hello,

I'm a Dane based in a London suburb.

I recently picked up Mikkeller's Book of Beer and it inspired me to try to brew my own beer. I have no experience in brewing but after doing a bit of reading I have decided to try BIAB and have bought the basic equipment for a stove-top setup. My first brew will, hopefully, be a strong'ish American style IPA (Mikkeller Stateside, recipe from the book).

Very happy to be joining this excellent board. I have already found a lot of useful information on here.

Hello from West Texas! Have been brewing extract recipes for 8 months or so. Feel its time to step up to allgrain and decided biab is for me. Bought a keggle and a Brewbag last week and have everything ready to go. Was looking around on Google on how to setup my beersmith2 for biab with Keggle and found this site. What a treasure trove of info! Can't wait to get started by making a clone of a local craft beer I like called Terlingua Gold Ale.

Johnny,

Hello all from Melbourne, Aus.
Been having a crack at BIAB over the last month, moving away from extract and a couple of years adding bits and pieces.
Doing the 19L stovetop but happy with smaller batches to get some variety going.
Fantastic source of info at this site.
Trying some small SMASH brews at the moment to get a feel for different hops.
Love that BIABacus - even just the basic functions is an awesome help
Cant wait to have a go at a Stout next
Richard

Nz here, just getting into biab , stumbled across this forum and looks like a great place to start. Looking forward to getting some brewing done

Howdy
I live in Adelaide and have been extract brewing for about 1 year and have enjoyed the results but feel like moving to all grain. In reading around different sites it seemed like it required a lot of setting up and cost until I came across biab. It seems a lot simpler and makes sense to me. I don't expect I will have much to contribute to the knowledge on this site for quite a while as I am very much at the learning stage

I'm from Kansas, born and raised, and for some odd reason I still haven't bothered to leave...

I found this site via Brülosophy. Cool site, tons of BIAB information, layout is kinda bleh though.

I've been brewing for about 5 years now I think. I started with extract and moved the AG using a cooler for a MLT. Eventually I got to a gravity setup with HLT, sparge arm, and all that. Brew days back then really did take almost all day. Recently I discovered BIAB and I LOVE it! I did a ton of research on it, saw that several micro-breweries are using and now and figured I'd give it a shot. My brew days are sooo much easier and faster now and I'm getting repeatable results!

Like many of you I'm a computer nerd. I'm a supervisor for a software company. I have a wife and two boys (2 & 4) which is another reason why I switched to BIAB (I was getting serious wife agro the old way).

I think that's about it. See you around the boards.

1. Where are you from? Hi guys, my name is Tiago, I'm from Brazil. I homebrew since mfebruary 2015, using a 3 pots scheme. Switched
2. Searching for BIAB at google.
3. Great!
4. I started doing BiaB 3 months ago, and I'm really fascinated by the ease and speed of this method. I'm doing 25 liters batches, and I'm seriously thinking in switch to 50 liters (still don't know how to lift all the weight lol)
5. I work as a secretary at the Justice, but I'm also a photographer. I sell some bottles back here in small scale.

Thanks!

Hi Fellow Brewers

I'm Jim, originally from Scotland and long-time resident of Northamptonshire in England.
I came across BIAB when searching for information on recipes and grain types. It seems like a great resource.
I've been brewing on and off for several years but recently decided to get serious about it and have invested in a Grainfather. My plan is to develop a range of five or six recipes covering different beer types that I can repeat consistently and to start operating commercially as a hobby business, although I won't be giving up the day job any time soon.

Cheers

Jim

Hello BIAB community,

my name is Carsten, just like 'ten cars' only swaped
I am from Germany and did my first brewing yesterday.
Some hybrid version of classical brewing and BIAB was used.
But I thoughht: why the hassle, next time I go full BIAB
I found this site frome discussions in some german forum and hope to gain more knowlwge here at the source.

Looking forward to learn and contribute.

Regards,

Carsten

P.S.: I nearly couldnt join this forum because of the 'captcha' question when registering. Although it is legal to dring beer in public at the age of 16 in my country they do not teach us basic brewing vocabulary in english classes. Very sad, I know. But probably the question could be adapted to something a bot wont know but a non native speacker can gues more easy.

hello all, i'm new on BIAB technique, just made 2 kit brewferm and planning to start first beer with BIAB next week.
cheers