thisgoestoeleven
Well-Known Member
I just called my LHBS to find out if they sell grain bags big enough to doing a BIAB setup with my 8 gallon pot. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the BIAB process altogether, but the way I explained it he said wouldn't work. As I understand BIAB brewing, you mash with the full volume of your boil and skip the sparging step, instead of mashing 3ish gallons, then sparging with the remaining boil volume. He told me that this system wouldn't work well, because mashing with that much water would give you a thinner mash and negatively impact extraction of sugars and enzymes. I see the number of people, both on here and in youtube tutorials, that have good results with the BIAB method without investing in multiple pots, a mash tun, etc, and I wonder if there's any truth to what he's saying. I'm not knocking him or saying he doesn't know, I'm just trying to educate myself and get multiple perspectives.