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So that was awesome...entire brew day 2 hours 45 min!! Holy...
Brew Notes...two unknowns going into this that had me nervous was how much water to start with because BIAB calculators on the net are all over the place. And what kind of temperature loss will I have not using the pre-heated 10 gal cooler I have been using all along.
Temperature loss...I wrapped the kettle/top with the foil heat shields...
Temperature loss was much less than I anticipated.
I heated the water to 163.4 degrees.
After putting in the grains and stirring...temp was 160.3. Too hot. Added a little water and got to 156. I'm good, I am expecting heat loss..so I figure 156 is fine. After 10 minutes, I opened the top/stirred and temp was 154.6...20 minutes later...153.5 Holy cow. After the full 75 minutes temp was 150.2.
VOLUMES:
So with 9lbs. of grain I basically averaged out what the calculators were telling me and started with 6.8 gallons.
Perfect. After squeezing the grains (below) I ended up with right at 6.2 gallons. :rockin:
Gravity Readings
Brewers Friend Efficiency Calculator for the grains I used -
100% - 10.56
75% - 10.42
I measured 10.44...so my efficiency was 79.4%...thinking pretty good for first BIAB.
SHOUTOUT to Wilserbrewer... LOVED the bag and pully setup..great job. The pulley works great and made squeezing draining really easy...everyone should get one of these.
Comparing with the "generic" bag I have been using forever (after numerous stuck sparges I started using a bag as the filter in the mash tun..never had a stuck sparge again.
The Wislerbrewer "condom shaped" bag is waaay better than the square bottom generic. Obvious reason being of course the wort drains from the middle only instead of some middle/some leaking everywhere out of the corners.
BUY ONE!
The only bad thing...I need a 10 gal pot.
The 8 gallon pot with the 9 lbs grain definitely maxed out the pot...I was very close to the brim.
I love my MegaPot!!!...I feel like getting a larger pot is somehow abandoning an old friend.
Brew Notes...two unknowns going into this that had me nervous was how much water to start with because BIAB calculators on the net are all over the place. And what kind of temperature loss will I have not using the pre-heated 10 gal cooler I have been using all along.
Temperature loss...I wrapped the kettle/top with the foil heat shields...
Temperature loss was much less than I anticipated.
I heated the water to 163.4 degrees.
After putting in the grains and stirring...temp was 160.3. Too hot. Added a little water and got to 156. I'm good, I am expecting heat loss..so I figure 156 is fine. After 10 minutes, I opened the top/stirred and temp was 154.6...20 minutes later...153.5 Holy cow. After the full 75 minutes temp was 150.2.
VOLUMES:
So with 9lbs. of grain I basically averaged out what the calculators were telling me and started with 6.8 gallons.
Perfect. After squeezing the grains (below) I ended up with right at 6.2 gallons. :rockin:
Gravity Readings
Brewers Friend Efficiency Calculator for the grains I used -
100% - 10.56
75% - 10.42
I measured 10.44...so my efficiency was 79.4%...thinking pretty good for first BIAB.
SHOUTOUT to Wilserbrewer... LOVED the bag and pully setup..great job. The pulley works great and made squeezing draining really easy...everyone should get one of these.
Comparing with the "generic" bag I have been using forever (after numerous stuck sparges I started using a bag as the filter in the mash tun..never had a stuck sparge again.
The Wislerbrewer "condom shaped" bag is waaay better than the square bottom generic. Obvious reason being of course the wort drains from the middle only instead of some middle/some leaking everywhere out of the corners.
BUY ONE!
The only bad thing...I need a 10 gal pot.
The 8 gallon pot with the 9 lbs grain definitely maxed out the pot...I was very close to the brim.
I love my MegaPot!!!...I feel like getting a larger pot is somehow abandoning an old friend.