jlag

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Doing my first BIAB this weekend. I have been brewing for about two years and have only done all grain using three vessels (never have done extract brew). I mash in a 5 gal Gatorade cooler (false bottom), batch and sometimes hand fly for sparge. I use my brew pot as the hot liquor to gravity feed into the mash tun, wort going into a third pot that I transfer back to my brew pot after sparge. I have done step mashing and all kinds of stuff like that, but cant wait to try brew in a bag.

Going to make Burnt Curtain Ale this weekend!!!

My sister in law sewed me up this tonight...




Doing standard recipe:
11 lb Two Row
0.5 Crystal
0.5 Dark Munich

Nugget for bitter
Fuggles for flavor/aroma

Wyeast 1056 American Ale

I am going to mash at 154 for 70 min and mash out at 168 for 20, no sparge for the first try.

Hung a pulley over the pot to lift/hold the wet grain bag for draining. Will let you know the results in about 8 weeks

-JLAG

DustBow

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Good luck and feel free to send me one of those bags if she would like to get other brewers' feed back

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EoinMag

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Great stuff, it's good to see others trying out the BIAB, I do large 12 Gallon brews using a large bag and a 75l boiler. Easy as pie and makes nice beer.
Let us know how it turns out.

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daugenet

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I did a BIAB and had an overall good experience. When I did a minimash it was very easy to let the grain sit in a colander and get a tiny bit more wort out of them. With a full grain bill I carelessly thought I could put the grain on top of the colander still and just make a nice mound that would sit there......I ended up missing my SG (big surprise) but was pleased overall.

Good luck!

jlag

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Ha, I have enough material to make 4 or 5 of the bags. I was thinking of making them and putting them up on ebay or something because you cant find them anywhere. This one is a "working prototype". The next one will have some grommets and stuff on it perhaps.

jlag

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If you have any tips/pointers they will be gladly accepted!

clintopher

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What did you use for material?

Alamo_Beer

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Did my first BIAB today...first brew in 17mo I lost a lot of my equip/stuff in the move/over time so BIAB it was. Was pretty dang easy and I'm lookin' forward to putting it on tap!

jlag

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Material for the bag I am assuming

I went to JoAnne Fabrics and bought Voile (French for Vail) material. It is a fine nylon mesh material, like a really fine fishnet, really a curtain, ha. Also bought some Bulky Nylon thread for sewing it together.

Here is an online source for the fabric:

http://www.onlinefabricstore.net/sheer-curtain-fabric/voile-fabric/118-inch-white-voile-fabric-.htm

I washed then boiled the bag to get rid of some weird odors it had. It smells like nothing now.

jlag

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Can't wait to hear the results, What type of brew?