smokinop
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I've been brewing 5 gallon batches for 6 years, 5 years doing AG with round mash tun, 3 vessels total. I was at a point where I wanted to move up to 10 gallons but I needed to do an upgrade on my mash tun to a larger cooler. I have been running this through my mind for months when it occurred to me to try BIAB. I ordered a bag along with a pulley/ratchet system, got it all hung in my brewing area out in the back yard, just waiting to brew my first batch. This past Saturday was my day to try it out for the first time. I wasn't planning on brewing but after getting the yard work done & having a beautiful day I decided to give it try. I didn't prepare as well as I should with my recipe/water so my end results are not going to be quite what I would expect. This was more of a proof of concept brew but I must say that all went well. I'm doing everything out of one brew kettle, so no more coolers to clean, and will be easy to scale up to larger brews. Why I didn't try this sooner. I have a table next to my kettle so after draining the bag of the wort, all I had to do was to put a garbage bag on the table & moved the bag full of grains over to it, drop it, dumb the grains out of the bag & wash what little grains were left in the bag, done with the grains in less than 5 minutes. This was by far the easiest brew day ever!