SumnerH
Well-Known Member
What the heck am I doing wrong? When I started AG a couple years ago, it took me 7 hours. I've since got it down to 5, including prep and cleanup. Extract brewing never took longer than 2 1/2 hours.
5 hours seems really long. Literally the only difference between an extract + steeping brew and a BiaB all-grain brew is that I control the BiaB temperature more and it goes a full hour instead of 1/2 hour. So it's pretty much exactly 1/2 hour longer for an AG brew day than an extract + steeping day, by definition.
If you don't have specialty grains, then the difference gets a bit bigger (at least another 1/2 hour).