Recent content by eman5oh

Well the beer has come out fine with all the batches so far, just want more of it.... will continue on this quest.

I have been doing IPA's with O.G. 's of 1.070 or so and ABV's ~7.9%

The first pic in the thread was with wirlfloc and taken at about 1 week into the fermentation, it did not compact anymore than that.

After some more reading this morning, it looks like a lot of people that use biab get a lot of trub when using certain types of bags. I am going to try to make a bag from voile fabric to see how that goes and just transfer the entire kettle to the carboy and let it settle out. Using a bucket to...

I guess I will order a new bag and give it a try again.

Here is yesterday's batch, I ran this though a funnel strainer when transferring it and shiphoned off the top. The other one was out the valve on the bottom. A lot less sediment in the carboy but still a gallon short... After my boil I ended with about 5.2 gallons of wort and as you see only 4...

I tried with and without, both times a lot of trub.

I am at the limit on batch size, I have an 11 gallon kettle and the last batch was 9.2 gallons water and 14 lbs grain. It left only about a 1/2 inch of space before overflow. So I need to work on reducing the sediment. The grains were purchased crushed, one batch from Northern brewer and the...

I have an electric biab setup and as of yesterday have brewed 3 batches in it. I am finding that I have excessive trub or sediment in the kettle or transfered over to the primary fermentor. I have attached pics of this. The first batch was a extract batch and not a biab so that one did not have...