Maybe a wasted post, but I am just so darned happy with my first BIAB brew session. I returned to brewing after a 15 year layoff, having done three-tier 'traditional' all-grain before with Gott coolers and limited success. I've been brewing extract for the past two years, but took the BIAB plunge today.
I brewed the AG version of the Midwest Raspberry Wheat. I'd planned for 70% efficiency, but hit 75%! I milled the grain through my Barley Crusher twice with the stock gap setting, used a custom BIAB bag for my Bayou Classic pot, used a Chugger pump for the first time whenever I added heat and to recirc (and while using my JaDDed Wasp immersion chiller), but otherwise did everything pretty much straight forward. Also used a refractometer for the first time, and it sure was sweet to see 1.053 in it's window before putting the lid on the fermentor. I took my time and still only spent 4 hours from start to everything clean and put away finish.
Call me a BIAB convert!
I brewed the AG version of the Midwest Raspberry Wheat. I'd planned for 70% efficiency, but hit 75%! I milled the grain through my Barley Crusher twice with the stock gap setting, used a custom BIAB bag for my Bayou Classic pot, used a Chugger pump for the first time whenever I added heat and to recirc (and while using my JaDDed Wasp immersion chiller), but otherwise did everything pretty much straight forward. Also used a refractometer for the first time, and it sure was sweet to see 1.053 in it's window before putting the lid on the fermentor. I took my time and still only spent 4 hours from start to everything clean and put away finish.
Call me a BIAB convert!