It's frickin freezing in Chicago, I can't use my hose spigot for cooling the wort, and it's too cold to hang out outside and tend to my beer. I was going to resort to extract brewing, but decided to give Brew in a Bag a shot. Grabbed some paint strainer bags over at the HD this morning. Ground my grain, got the water heating. What can I expect for efficiency compared to normal? I have my entire water volume in the mash, and will just pull the bag out, drain, and bring to a boil. I usually hit in the 80's for efficiency with a fly sparge. I am not sparging this at all. I am doing the flanders first...then the roggenbier. A roggenbier has been on my list, but I had been dreading the sparge, so I decided what better time than my first BIAB session to try it out? Here's a few pics so far...
Bag in a pot to grind my grains into
Ground grains...won't be brewing in this pot, using my 10.5gal polarware Kettle
Bag in a pot to grind my grains into
Ground grains...won't be brewing in this pot, using my 10.5gal polarware Kettle