Hi my most helpful brewing compadres!
For my first BIAB I used a cheap LD Carlson brew bag that was plenty big, too big, for my 10 gallon kettle. It made a good beer and dis not fall apart despite its loose weave. In the meantime I bought voile and made my own simple tapered pillow case design bag. Actually made 2 from the fabric I bought. I used a calculator that I assumed gave me cut dimensions factoring in seams etc. I enlisted grandma's help in sewing and I got the bags back to find then much too small. My kettle is 16.31" tall by 13.5" inner diameter, 14.75" top(lip) diameter. Cut my fabric to 26.6" top width, 11.5" bottom width, by 19.8" tall + 2" for drawstring 21.8" total. The resulting bag does just fit around the lip and touch the bottom, but the tapered bottom does not fully line the kettle and I certainly cant fit the whole kettle in the bag... not sure where I went wrong (other than the mistake of not just calculating myself.) The big question is though, while I'm waiting to make a new bigger bag can I use this bag without really messing up my mash or am I better off using the cheap bag that is definitely big enough? I am confident the undersized bag I have will stay put but it will probably constrain the grain a bit. I'll try to post photos later...
Use undersized bag til I make new one?
Post #1 made 6 years ago
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