BIAB recipe conversion?

redrocker652002 · Dec 12, 2022

I have a few BIAB batches under my belt, and have done them a few ways. The last one was simple full volume mash with no sparge at all. I was as close to my numbers as I have gotten, and the beer came out good, so no complaints. I have done the dunk sparge method and that worked out pretty well too. Still working on consistency, but I am still a novice. I am going to move to a cooler mash tun here soon as I want to see how that works out. So far, the only brews that I have made that did not hit the mark were because I screwed up the process

UdonPete · Dec 12, 2022

Zambezi Special said:
Not really related to your question, but somewhat...
How are you going to remove the bag? It will be heavy!
There is about 6 -6.5 kg grain plus all absorbed water to lift

Bria · Dec 13, 2022

doug293cz said:
The best way to sparge in this case is a dunk sparge in a 5 gal plastic bucket, using cool sparge water. You can then adjust your sparge volume so that you have more wort than will all fit in your kettle. After some boil off you can then add more of the sparged wort to the kettle. You can do this several times, right up to the end of the boil. This will be more efficient than adding top-up water after the boil. You may still need to add a little water after racking to the fermenter to get your target volume, but the less of this you have to add the better.

You want to tune things so that you add the last bit of sparged wort at the end of the boil, with none left over. To do this predictably, you can use trial and error, or measure your grain absorption and boil-off, and then the proper volumes can be calculated after a single brew run.

Brew on

PERFECT, thanks!!