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I am doing BIAB and that thermowell tore the bag every time. I even brewed with a friend who tried to help me not tear the bag, but even with four hands we tore a hole in the bag. I did try that solution and haven't had a torn bag, since...

What did you end up doing? I'm thinking about trying this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6910167&postcount=171

For Bru Gear definitely budget more money to fix the design flaws... buying a diptube (1.5gal wasted on my 15gal kettle) and a fitting to replace the way too large thermowell for the thermometer... then there's the gigantic, unsightly advertisement on the front that wasn't pictured in the...

If you want to brew all grain right now just go BIAB. I made the same mistake buying a BruGear kettle, but this community has already found some basic fixes for their design flaws.

FTR, I have a 15gal kettle because 1) I usually brew about 6 gallons into fermentor to get a fell corny and about a 6 pack of bottles 2) SWMBO wants me to keep at least one high gravity beer on tap and I don't want to put 3 gallons in a 5 gallon keg but... if I were bottling or just kegging...

Are you familiar with biabrewer.info? There are some solid looking claims that full volume mash biab gets the same efficiency as sparging. http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2523 https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=site%3Abiabrewer.info+jeans&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8...

It obviously won't be Belgian in character, but you might like what it turns out to be. Worst case you probably have some friends who would love some free, highly alcoholic beer who would think it's super cool that you made it :)

I'm looking to solve the same problem. The thermowell that came with the kettle gets in the way for biab. The analogue thermometer also significantly lags behind my digital for temperature changes. Is there any reason not to go with the 1.5" TC to 1/2" Female NPT? Looks like it might solve...

Oh, I thought he was talking about priming the keg. I still just lose a pint or two. I have a big glass just for that and I just fill it until it runs clear.

Plan A worked out fine. A lot of people cut the diptubes. I don't bother. The first couple pints are full of sediment. Sometimes it goes cloudy again if I shake a keg moving it. That problem might be worse when cutting the diptube, though, because there will be even more sediment left to get...

That's plan B, I was just hoping plan A (keep it on tap and the sugar gets sucked out of keg in first couple pints) would work :)

Follow up: I didn't put them in the fridge and just watch the indentation in the cap. I had a few gushers, but most were just fine. FTR, the refractometer calculation is different pre and post fermentation so it wasn't nearly as high FG as the previous post but probably also not what I...

Out of habit I primed a keg with 1/4c turbinado yesterday (just dumped it in, not dissolved). But, I had an open spot in the kegerator and put it right in the fridge. I didn't think anything about it until I pulled a pint today and it was very sweet. I know the lack of carbonation has a big...

What's the biggest diameter we know works on the IC3500? I'm getting this (almost 16 gallon) kettle which has a 16in diameter http://www.bru-gear.com/store/p16/ProBoiler%28tm%29_15i.html

I LOVE this book (spiral bound). I discovered it, and Ron, and the blog on the Beersmith podcast and realized how little I knew about brewing history and how much of what I knew was wrong! The book gives me a better background to understand the tons of info on the blog (and in the self published...