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Thanks for the responses folks! I appreciate the BIAB tips. What do you find the best way to lift the big bag of grains out is? I usually brew in my kitchen, so I’d rather not mount a big pulley on the ceiling.

I’ve been brewing for about three years. Just extract at this point, as the additional costs/time commitments have prevented me from going AG. I am curious to try BIAB though. I’m looking forward to having a resource for when I have questions or ideas I’d like to bounce off of other brewers’...

You’ve really been busy! So what’s the word? How do your first brews taste?

Don’t overthink it. Brew something you like. He’ll probably like it too.

Am I understanding correctly that you had 1 gallons with steep grains added to 5 gallons, and still required a gallon of water at the end to get to a total of 5 gallons? Does that mean 2 gallons (plus the volume of your extract) boiled off? That seems like a lot. You might have ended up with...