1st BIAB today

[Powerturn11]

Today I did my first BIAB. Went great. My basic setup was I mashed with 7 gallons of water, brought water up to 165 and then mashed at 154. Didn't drop 1 degree over an hour. Stirred at beginning, Once at half hour, and then at the end. Put a towel over brew kettle to help with heat. At end of mash I twisted grain bag and let drain on top of Wire rack set on top of kettle and let drain for a couple minutes. Every 5 minutes I pushed with my kettle lid as hard as possible for about 15 minutes total. In The mean time I heated 1.5 gallons of sparge water to 170 degrees. I then took a colander and poured The water through the colander onto bag and then repeated the squeezing process. I did over shoot my water a little bit so I ended up boiling for about 80 minutes to hit my ending 5 gallons. All said and done I hit 80% efficiency. Thanks to everyone on this board for making today a success.

 

[benco]

That's pretty much how I do it, except for I do more of a dunk sparge. It's taken me about 5 batches to get where you are on your first one. How did you come up with 80 %. Anyway I know this is your thread, but I'm having problems with collecting five gallons of beer. I've been hitting sg, fg, my boil off. I double crush and I've been ending up with almost a gallon of trub everytime, which leaves me with only about four to four and gallons of beer?

 

[Uziyahu]

Well done and welcome to the fun of BIAB.

 

[Powerturn11]

That's pretty much how I do it, except for I do more of a dunk sparge. It's taken me about 5 batches to get where you are on your first one. How did you come up with 80 %. Anyway I know this is your thread, but I'm having problems with collecting five gallons of beer. I've been hitting sg, fg, my boil off. I double crush and I've been ending up with almost a gallon of trub everytime, which leaves me with only about four to four and gallons of beer?

A gallon of trub? That seems really excessive. Like I said I over shot my water a little bit and ended up with about 5.75 gallons of beer. I hardly end up with any trub just a little hop sediment and some "other" stuff on The bottle of kettle. Not even enough worth mentioning really.

My grain bill was:
11lbs domestic 3 row
.75lbs Carmel 80
.25lbs special b
.25lbs chocolate.

Hops
1oz cascade
1oz fuggle

I hit 1.060 for my brew house efficiency at 5.75 finished gallons for my volume.

 

[Powerturn11]

Well done and welcome to the fun of BIAB.

Thank you! It was fun!