Hi All,

A few BIABs under my belt, including a saison, adnams ghostship clone and mosaic pale ale. I have been brewing for a year or so, I live and work in London so BIAB works perfectly for me. I look forward to gaining plently more knowledge on this brewing method specifically.

My set up includes a 50L electric kettle, a few 30L FV's and that is about it!

Roll on the imperial stouts and porters, which I am sure there will be plenty of info on here for them!

Kind regards,

Sam

Thank you for the kind reply - look forward to checking out the forum properly on my lunch break!!

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6 years ago

Sam and Klutus,

Welcome to the forum! Let us know what questions you have.

Sam - there are lots of recipes on the site but I normally adjust off the Brewing Classic Styles book. Easy to adjust through our BIABacus excel file.

Klatus - I traveled a similar journey as you on the beginning many years back and stepping away because of the bottling process (plus kids, etc.). Anyhow, let us know how we can help!

Hi

I live up in Cairns Qld... ive been an on and off extract brewer for several years. But felt I was always missing that something. I've just put down my first batch of all grain which is a Citra pale ale, using the BIAB method. Im crash chilling it now and I can't wait to taste the results. I'd like to develop and master a good pale ale and something like a tooheys old ... a couple of good session beers.

I found this forum... and I'd like to say it's been great to research. Loads of ideas and knowledge. So thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Mawson

Hello fellow brew-heads

I'm living in Lexington, KY but grew up in Fairfield, OH; went to college in Mobile, AL; worked in New Orleans, LA (N'Awlenz for any yats that see this); and got married in Baton Rouge, LA. If you are in any of those cities feel free to hit me up and share some memories about the place, I've loved each city in a different way.

I stumbled across this site from HomeBrewTalk.com. I'll most likely not go back there because brewing very small batches is what I do and all grain BIAB is how I enjoy doing it.

I'm a very INexperienced brewer, only done 3 batches. My latest was from a kit, Boston Brew's Chocolate Maple Porter. A+ result. My first two batches were from a 1950's book by a Mr Bravery. I picked up the book at a library sale or a garage sale and am looking forward to trying more of the recipes. My first batches were a Brown Ale and a Bitter. One was great and the other horrid, too bad I brewed them at the same time and the labels fell off so I don't know which one I liked!

In a former life I was a computer programmer. Think web programming in COBOL.

hi I am an expat living France have brewed in England but only recently start here in France. The difficulty here is not many home brew shops have to buy mail order

Hi there, here Jan from Argentina, I'm a beginner in this passionate world of brewing and I'm here to learn.
I found this great site looking for info about BIAB and I'm sure that it will help me a lot.

Thanks in advance to all of you.

Hi everyone,
My name is Dave. I'm currently living in cairns, Australia. I've been brewing for a few year now, just recently started biab. Found this site while reading up about biab.

Cheers.

Hey there brewers!

I'm David (seem to be a few of us on this site), and live in Denver, Colorado, USA. Been brewing for a few years, and mostly that was extract and partial grain. I've recently downsized from 5 gal batches to 2-2.5 gal. I travel a lot for work, and frankly wouldn't get to brew too many batches. 5 gal is a lot of beer, when your not around to drink it.

In addition to down sizing my batches, I wanted to move into all grain, and BIAB is a great way to do this. I can just about do a 2 gal batch (by the math) on the stove top. If I'm doing anything larger, or with a heavy grain bill, I've got to use the 8 gal pot on the propane.

That leads me to where I am today. I'm trying to find out what kind of height I should really have for a false bottom. I'm using a Bayou Classic 8 gal pot. They make a traditional false bottom for the pot https://www.bayouclassicdepot.com/produ ... on-800-908, but it sits 3" (7.62 cm) from the base of the kettle. This would mean the that a portion of the water (1.5 gal / 5.68 l) would not be in direct contact with the grain. Is this a problem, or will it affect the outcome much? Should I construct a shorter false bottom, and what is the ideal height?

Looking forward to your replies. Found this site while looking for information on BIAB and listening to the BeerSmith podcast. (I do have BeerSmith) Lots of great information on the site, and it looks to be an active community.

Regards,
Davo

Hi All!

I'm excited to get started, I've been brewing for several years, but have never tried all grain brewing, fearing it was too complicated and expensive, then I found the brew in bag method and was led to this site! Holy smokes, it couldn't be easier! Wicked excited to get started. I'm from the Boston area right now but have lived all over the place, including Denver, Portland, OR, Montana and Seattle.

G'day all, first time poster from Western Australia and fairly new to home brewing. I've done a few kits off and on over the years and am now looking to try something new and after reading around the web BIAB seemed a good place to fit was i was looking for. Being fairly green to it all i'm just trying to gather as much knowledge as a i can before jumping in. Look forward to reading through the forum.

Cheers
Mike

Hi all,

I'm Richard, from Cumbria in the UK. I found this site whilst looking for a good first recipe for BIAB. Site looks great so far, just need to spend some time reading up on all the great stuff on here.

I've never brewed beer before, only made scrumpy cider and some rhubarb wine before. My wife grew up opposite Jennings brewery and loves the smell of brewing, so when I wanted to brew some beer she told me to go for it. I wanted a straight-forward method but also wanted to dive into all grain rather than extract; BIAB seemed the logical choice.

I work as a teacher, so I'll soon have the summer holiday to get some brews going without having to rush myself.

Looking forward to brewing something tasty!!

Hi Scott,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm going to start with a few SMaSH brews just to get used to the process, but will no doubt be asking questions once I've got those first few brew days under my belt and feel ready to start trying some more adventurous brews.

Off to start my recommended reading now...