all grain brew day in under 4.5 hrs!

[Starderup]

It might help you streamline your process. Plus, this website has a great downloadable poster that has tons of useful information on it.
http://tophatbrewery.com/brewschedule.zip

http://tophatbrewery.com

Look at the bottom for the poster. It is a big file, so you might just want to d/l the 11x17 first.

 

[Apendecto]

I'm at about 4-5 hours myself. My electric stove takes a bit of time to heat up my strike water (40 mins), then, because I use BIAB, heating the sparge water back up to boiling takes an additional 40ish mins after combining all the wort together.

But, we also bottle two and rack one while brewing one, so we're getting a lot done while we're drinking and having dinner. And putting the baby to sleep.

How do you sparge with BIAB? Dunk the grain into another pot?

From what I've read, the Aussies usually don't.

 

[fugazzi]

How do you sparge with BIAB? Dunk the grain into another pot?

From what I've read, the Aussies usually don't.

Correct, they don't. I'm using Deathbrewer's method which is more of a BIAB+sparge technique. I mash using about 3.5g of water, then sparge (stick the bag of grain in, mix around, and let it sit for about 10 mins) in about 4g water. I think the aussies just use the full boil amount of water from the get go, and I don't currently have a pot big enough for that.

 

[Apendecto]

Correct, they don't. I'm using Deathbrewer's method which is more of a BIAB+sparge technique. I mash using about 3.5g of water, then sparge (stick the bag of grain in, mix around, and let it sit for about 10 mins) in about 4g water. I think the aussies just use the full boil amount of water from the get go, and I don't currently have a pot big enough for that.

Nice.