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You're welcome. I'm starting with 11.25/11.50 gallons of water. After I stir in the grains if it looks like I can add a little water, I do. As much water as I can without spilling it over the side when I stir. Warning, 30lbs of dry grain is going to weigh somewhere around 45/50 lbs when wet...

I have a fifteen gallon pot and routinely brew 11 gallons into two fermenters. Usually net about 9.5 gallons into two kegs. You need to add probably about 10% more grains than simply doubling the recipe I have found. I think it's because there is less water in the mash. Stir the mash about...

Just had the carbed version from a keg. Definitely the best beer i have ever brewed. Among the best beers I have ever had. To clarify, I usually do 9.5 or ten gallons BIAB in a fifteen gallon pot. The day the bag burned and split, I was doing one of my favorite recipes, a doppelbock I have...

"I dough in at 96, 10 minutes do 112 for 15 then 130 for 15, and then to mash temp" I did this a couple of weeks ago and in the finished beer the flavors were really good, better than I have been able to do before. Unfortunately, I didn't heed the part about pulling the bag up when heating...

I have a 15 gal kettle and can't imagine it working well with 2 1/2 gal batches. I frequently do ten gal batches by doubling a five gallon grain bill, and after pulling out the bag add water before the boil. The rule of thumb for sizing BIAB I have seen is half the kettle size is a great batch...

Not the guy you asked, nor do I have a Spike kettle I have a Northern Brewer 15 Gallon Megapot. Last four batches or so, I have usually put nine and a half gallons into two kegs. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Nine and a half leaves about the right CO2 head space into two kegs. Better than...

I have been disposing of spent grains in our compost heap. I do squeeze the bag, and let it drip over the brew kettle but knew I wasn't getting it all out. As I went to larger and larger grain bills, it was getting harder to carry to the compost heap. My wife said, put the bag and all in a...

Off-topic Ummm, understandable to me. Ten gallons is two five gallon kegs. Rule of thumb being that you need a twenty gallon kettle to brew ten gallons of beer when using BIAB. I've got a fifteen gallon brew kettle and several times have wondered if I would be better off with a twenty. I...

I am using a 15 gal megapot, calculates out to 15.6 actual. 7.5 gal batches are EZ. Did 9.5 gal batch by adding 3 gal of water post mash. Would have been 10.5 if I hadn't boiled off more than I anticipated. 24 lbs grain easy. I say go 15 or 20. Don't forget, 24 lbs of saturated grain will be a...

I use propane, with an Edelmetall burner that uses a needle valve. The needle valve gives such fine control of the flame that in the brews I have done, you really only need to watch for boilovers in the first five or so minutes until you stabilize at a roiling boil. Once you settle down you're...

That's a great link to the calculator, thanks. I'm going to have to think about if I do high gravity just doing one five gallon batch. I actually prefer higher gravity, and higher ABV. However, I can't drink as many of them so am exploring lesser brews and trying to keep it around max of 6%...

I'm new to brewing, thinking about BIAB - would often want ten gallons final - so I'm thinking allowing a bit for leaving some wort in the kettle and losing some to trub in the fermenter Would 20 gals be about right? What sort of features are desireable? Spigot and what else?

Thanks, I will follow up on that!

Thanks, guys. Will check them out. regards Ken

I'm from upstate SC. I like russian imperial stouts. In SC you can't really find them after April and before thanksgiving, so I decided to start brewing them. Starting with extract brewing, going easy at first. Ken

I searched the forum and found an all grain recipe and some asking for an extract recipe but no recipe. I do know that a kit can be bought from the Maltose Express. If I can find a recipe I would rather support my local home brew shop when I can. Anybody got an extract clone of Brother...