Why not just add your hops bag to your BIAB bag? Mash in the bag for 60 minutes, then remove the hops bag, and place it in your boil kettle.
For BIAB FWH I always add them just when I pull the grain bag out and start draining. Just don't forget it like I sometimes do
Why not just add your hops bag to your BIAB bag? Mash in the bag for 60 minutes, then remove the hops bag, and place it in your boil kettle.
FWH is usually done while Sparging, yes? With traditional methods (false bottom in a cooler), thats at 170F, and takes a long time.
So with BIAB why not leave the hops in during the mash, since there isnt really a sparge.
Or am I missing something?
I think some hops would be stuck in the grains in this scenario, don't you?
The Paint Strainer bags come in sets of two. Add your hops to one bag, secure with a rubber band, and then add at that bag to the grains held within the other bag. Mash in as usual. When it comes time to Mash out, remove the hops bag, rinse the outside, and toss in your main kettle with 170-ish water already at temperature. Dunk your grain bag several times in that 170-ish water as well. Drain the grain bag into a bowl on the counter, pour the rest of the drippings from the bowl into the main kettle, which is coming up to boiling temps, and if partial-mashing, add your DME. This is a sort of Mash Hop / FWH combo for BIAB but you won't notice any difference.
I'm thinking tiny hop particles are going to infiltrate the grain bag as opposed to freely circulating throughout the boil as usual. I guess I should have been more clear.
you and i have different understanding of BIAB. for me, BIAB does not preclude sparging. in fact, spearging is required to reach full volume and it greatly increases efficiency.>>do you sparge/rinse when you BIAB?
No, thats the point of BIAB. When your mash is over, pull out the bag, and start teh boil.
you and i have different understanding of BIAB. for me, BIAB does not preclude sparging. in fact, spearging is required to reach full volume and it greatly increases efficiency.
do you mash in your full boil volume? if you need to boil 6 gallon (to make a 5 gal batch), do you mash in all 6 gallons? if so, at 1.5 qt/lb, you'd need to be mashing 16 pounds of grain. at 1.25 qt/lb, you'd need 19.2 lbs of grain. if you're using less than 16 pounds of grain, your water-to-grain ratio is off and enzymes may be too dilluted.
deathbrewer's BIAB tutorial illustrates how to sparge while BIAB'ing: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/easy-stovetop-all-grain-brewing-pics-90132/. in this tutorial, i would add FWH at post #3 - right after you move the grain into the sparge pot, throw your FWH into the now-grainless main mash pot.
I BIAB and I sparge to get to proper pre-boil volume. It doesn't take any longer than traditional full volume BIAB. I start sparging when I fire kettle and before it gets to boiling I done with sparging and squeezing grain bag
tre9er said:there is a tad more work moving the grain to another vessel (assuming that's what you're doing) and also in cleaning another vessel. If you lift and pour water over it, I suppose that's about equal in effort/cleaning to full-volume, though.
ArcLight said:>>do you sparge/rinse when you BIAB?
No, thats the point of BIAB. When your mash is over, pull out the bag, and start teh boil.
The Sparge is 2 minutes while the wort drains from your grain bag
The only lag time is how long it takes to go from mash (or mash out temperature) to boiling. Thats much less than the traditional sparge time.
At some point I will try this, and also Mash Hopping.
Yup. Mini-BIAB and Maxi-BIAB are a few of those, for more info check out the BIABrewer forum section...There are definitely a few methods to BIAB, ...
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