HI ALL. ive been all grain brewing for two years now on my three tier system from beerbelly in adelaide, doing double batchs from 40 to 50 litres, and loving every minute of it, twenty batchs under my belt, made some really great beers and made some well lets say REALLY bad ones . i live in port pirie 200ks away from adelaide. work shift work at the smelters (nystar). my mission in life at the moment is to convert my work mates and maybe pirie to all grain brew at home, (i think) theres a potential. well in pirie anyway. a need for a all grain homebrew supply shop. maybe call me a little crazy for thinking that but..... so be it. when i first discoverd homebrew beer was around a mates place, he had a nineteen litre keg, one tap through the door and australian pale ale coopers kit. tasted it, and it was really good at that stage anyway . started brewing kit beers for about six months or so. BUT i was looking for more in my beer. it was lacking something? something that i wanted more from it. so one night looking around on the net i discovered BEERBELLY.com. at that stage i didnt even know what hops where . at that stage i seen that they have a brewing demostration on how to all grain. so i thought ill go and have a look. always remember the first time i tasted a all grain beer, it was a single hopped Sticklebract pale ale. and it was like a light bulb that went on, a really big light bulb. so after going to another brewday i decided to buy a three tier, two 98L HLT and boil kettle with a 75lt insulated mash tun with two march pumps and two heat exchanges. remember the day when i picked the brewery up. it was a great . brang her home on my trailer and brewed that night. well that was abit of a long night, it was way over my head trying to remember the steps that i was shown on the two brewdays. but when look back on it i did hit my mash in temp, but didnt allow for loss of water. i did have beersmith at the time, massive help that was. so abit short on the volume of wort in the fermenter, still hit the OG right on. first brew was the DR SMURTOS GOLDEN ALE and it turned out great. so thats abit about me. ive came along way from that moment at beerbelly brewdays. so much that ill be opening a shop for all grain brewing very soon, ill be running the shop on my four days off from work. busy yes but i have the erge to show people the great difference between all grain brewing and the kits you buy. wish me luck and keep those kettles boiling,out
thanks gareth adams
cheers

1. Where are you from?

Hi, I'm from Bologna - Italy

2. How did you stumble across the site?

The site was referenced somewhere in http://forum.areabirra.it, an italian hb community.

3. What you think of it so far?

Very informative, quite, polite community.

4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using?

I've brewed from the beginning of the year (2011), I'm actually using e+g.

5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household?

I'm still working in Milan, for a regional gov.

Bye.

My answers, in order:
1. I'm from Kiryat Bialik, Israel. A small town just north of Haifa
2. I got to this site by searching for Brew In A Bag in google. It was later also recommended to me by a fellow Israeli brewer who's on the site
3. It is very informative, though some digging is required to get to all the information. For example, I stumbled on to this thread, but no where in the registration did it say I should post here to become a full member.
4. I've just started brewing. My first beer was a kit, and I was going to move on to E+g from there. Unfortunately, it turns out that it;s much harder to get extract around my neck of the woods than just grain, so I figured that I'd just move straight to a.g. and save myself the hassle. BIAB seems like a good way to do that at minimum investment.
5. I work as a software engineer and brew beer in my spare time, amongst other hobbies

Hi All,

Half way through my first biab. The instructions all looked easy.........

I now have 15 litres of beer including 5 of trub and more questions than answers.

Now I wonder what it is going to taste like?

Cheers,

Timmer

Hello from sunny FL! Chris here.

I'm an active member of the Homebrew Talk forum interested in BIAB. I started brewing in October 2010 and have 12 extract batches under my belt. Now that I have the basic process down, time to move to AG!

I look forward to the advise from the BIAB veterans.

Cheers!

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Thank you Nick!

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This is a first post on behalf of DrSmurto who has kindly allowed BIABrewer the use of his recipe 'DrSmurto's Golden Ale' - an infamous recipe in Australia. As a sign of thanks, we'd like to send him a note saying that he now has full keys to the site.

Thank you Dr!

Hi all

Having been brewing extract here in NJ (USA) for about 6 months and planning to make the leap into all grain BIAB. Looking forward to digging into this site.

Ken

Hi to everyone, John here from Liverpool, England.

I found the site whilst trawling google for info on all-grain brewing. I discovered the BIAB technique, which seems to suit my needs perfectly.

First impressions of the site are good, i want to be able to download the converters and calculators which are tailored to BIAB, rather than trying to understand those designed for traditional brewing.

I have brewed 2 kits before, got fairly good results but i like to do things properly once i get into something!

Im a mechanical design engineer, so im looking forward to designing a micro-brewery!

Cheers

Greetings from Finland!

Few biab batches done earlier and now because of lack of space wanted to try again.

Forum looks great, nice job!

-janne

Hi guys i am in New Zealand.
Doing my first BIAB today. I am look forward to posting my results.
Dean

Hi, retired firefighter from the UK, live near Stratford upon Avon and have been doing kits for 15 years or more, all grain just seemed to complicated for me but this new BIAB seems just seems a lot easier.

Hi,

My name is Paul, I am working and have a family and live in Brisbane.

I've been brewing using extracts for a number of years and I'm keen to start all grain brewing but the set up costs put me off for some time.

I have been using 40L crown urn for a kettle already so all I need now is a bag. Can't wait to get started!

This site is a wonderful resource and I guess I'll have some late nights reading as much as I can before trying my first BIAB.

1. Where are you from? Philadelphia US
2. How did you stumble across the site? from the recent podcast
3. What you think of it so far? everyone seems very nice
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? no
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? i work as an artist assistant

thanks

Hello everyone,
I've been a kits and bits brewer on and off for almost 15 years and started back when imported beers were harder to come by and often stale. I've always had an adventurous palate and my biggest problem as a starting brewer was learning to stop changing recipes/yeasts etc and stick at improving my skills. I found this site as I am ready to step up to AG. In the past the 3V method put me off, but I have come to realise from tasting the great micro-brews available out here in WA (I'm based in Perth) that you just can't reproduce certain flavours with an extract base.

Getting back into researching beer in the last few years I am stunned by the ingenious nature of my countrymen in inventing BIAB, nochill and fantastic resources such as this site and other forums. As an Australian I was aghast at the quantity of fresh water I could expect to use in a chiller and I didn't fancy the amount of storage I'd need to save that for the garden. Also, the practical difficulties of AG without specialist equipment were daunting. Now, thanks to this site and everyone's feedback, I can't wait to get reading the documents, get a Crown urn and do my first BIAB. The only thing confusing me is which mill to get as I can't find a shop near me that mills grains.

Looking forward to joining in on this journey,
Cheers
Rob

Hello hello! Extract brewer here excited to get into BIAB brewing.

Oh, I forgot to include more info.
I'm a student going to the University of Akron and I just got into brewing this year. I've made 5 extract batches but using extract feels too easy and impersonal so I'd like to get into all-grain. I'm active on BeerAdvocate (same username) but I'm also on HomeBrewTalk.com (much more of a lurker there). Found this site after somebody on HBT mentioned it. I really like how organized this site is.

1. Where are you from? Melbourne Australia
2. How did you stumble across the site? Referred by LBHS
3. What you think of it so far? I think it will be of great benefit as I move to partial and AG brewing
4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently using? Extract brewing for about 12 months
5. Do you work? Are you retired or maybe you run a household? I work

do i have to post to dl the calculator?

Hi all!

I'm from Missouri in the United States. I found out about the site from the Beersmith BAIB podcast. I have been brewing for about a year now, starting with extract and a few months ago transitioned to partial mashes in a small cooler (specifically counter top partial mashing from a BYO magazine). Brewing in a bag seemed like an easy way to go all grain and the site looks like it's got a lot of info to get me started. During the day I write software in Clojure.

Hi

From Guelph, Canada. Have been doing extract brewing for a while. Looking to move into BIAB. Stumbled across the site via an interview pod cast from the beer smith site.

Looking forward to trying AG brewing, this seems like the best method possible (no hassles, straight forward brewing) at least from what I have read so far. This method seems to focus on the beer, not the big flashy equipment made to brew it.

Brewing my first batch in the next couple of weeks, looking forward to learning a new process.

Cheers

StoneGarage