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Do you sparge after the mash or boil?

Ok that makes sense thank you. I've brewed two biab a bag so far and both were below the targeted efficiency, was watching a youtube video were he purposely added less water to start, at the end added the water needed to be at his OG using a formula. Anyone done this for biab?

I used this to calulate how much water I needed for my brew yesterday, I ended up with to much wort. About 1gal to much some was trub my kit was for 6gal why does it say transfer 6.5gal? I ended up with 1.042OG instead of 1.05.

I dont know if you have but I would check your hyrometer zero, i did my first biab was was around 65% efficiency. A few days later I check my hyrometer and it was reading 6 points low, which bought my OG from 1.042 to 1.048.

I would like to do only all grain batches but with the wife working from home now and have two kids under 5 my time is limited through the day. With warmer weather coming I hope to be able to brew once the kids go to bed. Also considering getting a electric system at some point that's abit more...

I currently ferment in my unfinished basement, on my three fermenters I'm using a fermwrap, heating pad and seeding mat. The fermwarp works the best, with a controller I can set to any temp I want. I will probably replace the other two for fermwraps at some point.

I did my first biab last week, I'm also from Canada and had similar temps when I did it. When I did my mash I used a winter sleeping bag, i started my mash at 156f and in 60min It dropped to around 150f. If you do use a sleeping bag watch the bottom of your kettle I melted a bit of the sleeping...

Got this rigged up today, still waiting on a fitting but was able to use a 1/2 piece of hose to get me started.

I bought two 50l kegs I turned one into a keggle, I already have two spears I could use. How short would I want to cut? I plan on transferring under pressure to corny kegs and cold crashing. I read someone cut off a few inches to stay off the bottom.

Could I build a spunding valve coming off a sankey coupler? On my sankey coupler I have it converted so I can use ball lock couplers. Could I build something like this?

I have a Sankey 50l keg that I plain on using for a fermenter. I'd like to do two kits at once. Could I just add the two kits put the spear in and add abit of pressure and let it go?

It was an all grain kit, it had mash king packaged grains.

I did my fist BIAB yesterday, I ended up with a gravity reading after the boil of 1.042 instead of around 1.05. 10lbs of crushed Grains Brought my mash water to 160f added my grains it only brought the water to 158f. I waited until the water dropped 156f put lid on and wrapped in a sleeping bag...

Just finished my first biab, everything went well. I ended up with 20.5L instead of the 23L. SG of 1.042 should I add water or let it go?

I just finished my second brew and its now it the keg cooling. I have cleaned my fermenter and everything I used with oxiclean. I won't be putting on another kit until next week as I have another on now. My question is can I just sanitize everything next week and use it or should i clean...

I just started brewing as well. I also brew in a unfinished basement that's around 12c. This is my setup, I have a fermwrap on one and heating pad on the other fermenter and insulated with foil. I have no problem keeping any temp I want with the controllers.

I've ordered from brewhq there in NS.

When I do put the beer in the keg, do I pressurize it right away or wait until it cools down and force carbonate.

I ordered a all grain kit and I'm going to do biab theres still a few days before it shows up and I have beer in the fridge, I'll keep in the fermenter until the kit shows up and I need the fermenter. First time doing biab looking forward to learning more. Thanks everyone for the replys

Thanks for the headsup it was taken yesterday.