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Hello all, My friend would like to get into homebrewing all grain beer. I told him his best bet would be to start with BIAB brewing. The trouble is, he only has an 8 gallon kettle. He would like to brew a recipe that calls for 14.5 lbs of grain in it. If he does this though, there is...

Thanks! I think I will try your method. I know home brewing can have a lot of exact calculations so that you can recreate beers, but to be honest, I just want to make sure I make good beer. I rarely brew the same beers more than once, and when I do, I don't need it to be exactly the same as it...

So, if I was going to sparge, would I calculate my mash water to be 1.5x12 which is 18, or 4.5 gallons. Conduct my mash, remove my bag, give it a squeeze, then see where I am at as far water. Then sparge until I have the correct amount of preboil volume?

I'm going to try this recipe this weekend as a BIAB. I'm hoping to get about 70% efficiency. .75 oz. Magnum at 60 minutes .25 oz. Magnum at 15 minutes 1 lb. Biscuit 1 lb. Crystal 80 2 lbs. Honey Malt 4 lbs. Vienna 5 lbs. Pale Malt 2 row I'm shooting for a 6 gallon batch and a...

Ok. So here's another question. If I decide to sparge, how do I do that with a BIAB method? Pull grains out, wait for them to drain, pour on sparge water?

Not sure why that posted 3 times. But my question is still valid!

So, then no sparge or mash out additional water? Just pull my bag out, let it drain? Should I squeeze the bag, and if so lightly or giver hell?

So, then no sparge or mash out additional water? Just pull my bag out, let it drain? Should I squeeze the bag, and if so lightly or giver hell?

So, then no sparge or mash out additional water? Just pull my bag out, let it drain? Should I squeeze the bag, and if so lightly or giver hell?

Hello everyone, I know a 1,000 posts have already been started about this subject, but I feel like my question is an easy answer, I just don't have it, and I can't sift through enough of this to find it. I'm going to brew a beer that is 12 lbs. of grain BIAB style. I would calculate how...

I usually do end up tipping the kettle a bit, or just straight dumping the leftovers into the fermenter, but what about all that cold break? Is it ok for that to enter the fermenters?

Hello everyone, My brew kettle has an output valve near it's bottom, as I'm sure many of yours do as well. Approximately one gallon of liquid is left after I let it drain all the way out without tipping the vessel. My question is how should I factor this into my calculations? For instance...

Cool. Is there any special trick? I usually just spray out the container with CO2, then lower my pressure to about 4psi, and fill. Is there anything I'm missing or should change?

So I have a blickman bottling gun. If I use it to fill up a growler tonight that is a clamp on lid, will my beer stay carbonated until Saturday night? Which is 4 days away by the way, lol. It will be chilled until then.

Thanks. Yeah, it's been carving for approx 2 weeks, but I know transporting is going to lose some CO2, plus it could use just a bit to more. I'll set it 20 for the night tonight.