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No real down side. Done them both and the ease and time saving of BIAB is great. Especially nice for brewing inside like you want to. My sister wanted to start brewing and I started her off with the BIAB and also doing partial mashes. I think if the option of doing BIAB will work for you...

^^^yep 10 minutes and a few cents to clean and sanitize - why wouldn't you?

Agree most definitely. I helped my brother build a bar. He paid a total of $350 for everything. His tap system, a two tower and a single tower, fridge with chamber build and co2 tank and regulator cost $150 and the rest went towards the bar build.(has a 10ft bar with 4ft leg). Most of the...

+1 for bargainfittings

As far as pitching temps it def depends on the yeast strain and the type of beer you are making. I always like to pitch mine as close to the ferm temp as possible. You would also want the yeast you are pitching to be as close to the wort temp as you can get it. As far as temp control you...

I finished my herms system about 6 months ago. I made a few minor adjustments after the first 2 brew days and have one more in mind. Hopefully I wont have to do to many more mods, stuff can get expensive. One thing though it did take about a year to design my system. A lot of research and...

i used to the not look for dates mainly because the place I get my beer from always had fresh inventory. One time I bought a case of flower power and was highly disappointed. It was about 8 months past date. The beer wasn't bad just not what it should have been. I talked to the place where I...

I have 4 buckets that I use for fermenting. All prob seen at least 20 batches or so. Ive only quit using 2 buckets (use for storing grain now) cause my kids decided to use them for toy storage and I was a bit worried about using them.

done-if you can post the results Good Luck!!

Welcome fellow PA-er. From Lancaster, put thoughts in my head maybe gotta go get me some Hop Hog or some Milk stout. Heard their food is really good their. Maybe one day ill travel out that way.

well since you are fermenting in a bucket don't worry to much if you don't see any airlock activity. the bucket seal doesn't always hold well and you can be leaking out there. If you see krausen then your yeast is working. You could take a reading if you wanted but I would not worry about...

Dear Non-pregnant wife, There was a time when my homebrew would last, not so much anymore. So please lets figure something out. Either drink a bunch of homebrew and lets get pregnant again or we will have to figure out how to get more brew days in the schedule. Sincerely...

The pumpkin pie spice I use contains cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, mace and cloves. If I were you I would make a couple of tinctures of each and experiment with a couple of small glasses of your beer to see what flavor/aroma you are looking for. If you find what you are looking for I...

Def use a blowoff. A couple things you can do to keep the fermentation activity down is ferment at the bottom of the temp range for the yeast you are using and you could also use fermcap.

I have been using the same 32oz bottle of star san for about 3 years now. I usually make a 5 gallon batch with DI water and separate into 1 gallon jugs and always keep some in a spray bottle. I check the ph when I mix the initial 5 gallons and whenever I open a individual gallon. The ph has...

I usually only brew once a month, rarely twice. I do 10 gallon batches so I try and make 2 kegs last a month. I have 2 different beers on tap and supplement that with my favorite craft selections.

I dumped a few probably 3. But one that I dumped I missed about 6 bottles, it was an irish stout. I found them about 6 months later mixed in with some other bottles so I threw them in the fridge and tasted them after about a week. They were actually really good. Bad mistake on my part. Now...

I never used whole only pellet hops with my false bottom so I can't give you much info on that. I would think it would work ok just cause of the size of the cones but not sure.

The biggest impact on my beer has been the temp control. Thanks to you guys I figured that out early on in my brewing stages. The second thing was cleaning and sanitizing, again learned that early on. So besides those two, I think my biggest improvements have been pitching the proper amount...

Wow ton of interesting info here. Never really thought about the time from brew day til day served. One thing I can say though is since I started not rushing beers and trying to get them ready not only me but many others also have noticed a difference. One of the comments I get is your beers...