Poor effiency, read this!!

[Golddiggie]

I've done BIAB, cooler but then I saw the light and made a keg mash tun. Heat the water in the keg mash tun to dough-in temp. Mix in the grain, stabilize temp and let it sit. Direct fire to get up to sparge temp, drain and sparge. DONE!!!

I will admit to using the BIAB bags for other aspects now. Such as for the luscious wort to flow through (from the mash tun) so that I don't need to vorlauf. A few ounces of rice hulls is sound insurance against a stuck sparge, when using a Jaybird/NorCal false bottom too.

As for efficiency... As long as your consistent for different grain bill sizes, who really cares? I range from about 72-78% currently, depending on the amount I mash (full keg is ~72%). With buying grain in bulk, I have enough on hand to brew my recipes without issue. Personally, I'd rather sacrifice a few efficiency points if it means I'll avoid the negative aspects of too high an efficiency (tannins, etc.).

BTW, another way to have better efficiency control is to mill your own grain. Use a solid mill, and you eliminate the HBS doing a good enough job of it for you. Plus, milling the grain shortly before mashing it adds another level of freshness to the ingredients (at least to me it does). Besides, running my mill sounds so damned cool. Well, evil actually, since it IS a Monster...

 

[H-ost]

Besides, running my mill sounds so damned cool. Well, evil actually, since it IS a Monster...

Heh. Yeah I feel like a Rebel when I use my mill

 

[Denny]

Yeah, but with a blue cooler you get 137% efficiency. After 10 brews, a bag of grain magically appears in your garage.

 

[Golddiggie]

Heh. Yeah I feel like a Rebel when I use my mill

When you yell, does she cry "more, more, more"??? :fro:

 

[ktblunden]

Screw you and your blue cooler. Everyone knows red is far superior and you get better efficiency and bottles of beer mashed in a red cooler carb up within 2 days. :cross:

My orange Gatorade cooler kicks both your coolers' asses! It mashes my grains, sparges, empties itself into the brew pot and then does the boil by itself while I sit and drink beer.

 

[KISS Brew]

My orange Gatorade cooler kicks both your coolers' asses! It mashes my grains, sparges, empties itself into the brew pot and then does the boil by itself while I sit and drink beer.

Electrolytes. Plants crave them.

 

[MicroBrewMaster]

When you yell, does she cry "more, more, more"??? :fro:

haha great stuff

 

[christpuncher123]

I've done BIAB, cooler but then I saw the light and made a keg mash tun. Heat the water in the keg mash tun to dough-in temp. Mix in the grain, stabilize temp and let it sit. Direct fire to get up to sparge temp, drain and sparge. DONE!!!

I will admit to using the BIAB bags for other aspects now. Such as for the luscious wort to flow through (from the mash tun) so that I don't need to vorlauf. A few ounces of rice hulls is sound insurance against a stuck sparge, when using a Jaybird/NorCal false bottom too.

As for efficiency... As long as your consistent for different grain bill sizes, who really cares? I range from about 72-78% currently, depending on the amount I mash (full keg is ~72%). With buying grain in bulk, I have enough on hand to brew my recipes without issue. Personally, I'd rather sacrifice a few efficiency points if it means I'll avoid the negative aspects of too high an efficiency (tannins, etc.).

BTW, another way to have better efficiency control is to mill your own grain. Use a solid mill, and you eliminate the HBS doing a good enough job of it for you. Plus, milling the grain shortly before mashing it adds another level of freshness to the ingredients (at least to me it does). Besides, running my mill sounds so damned cool. Well, evil actually, since it IS a Monster...

Keg mash tun with false bottom, awesome! It is basically BIAB on steroids! Dammit now I just spent more money on a false bottom!

 

[ktm250]

Yeah, but with a blue cooler you get 137% efficiency. After 10 brews, a bag of grain magically appears in your garage.

+1000 for blue coolers. Way better than the other color coolers.

Blue Cooler of Overwhelming Efficiency

+100 frost resistance
+15 strength
+7 agility
+24 stamina
+13 intellect

30% chance of critical strike upon mash in.
50% chance of 150% efficiency

 

[Golddiggie]

Keg mash tun with false bottom, awesome! It is basically BIAB on steroids! Dammit now I just spent more money on a false bottom!

The Jaybird/NorCal false bottoms are the tops...

I'm looking at getting/making another mash tun (more capacity). If I build my own, it will be fitted with one of Jaybird's false bottoms. While I might be able to get away with something that costs less, I don't think the product quality, and level of customer service, can be beat. The only negative is they're on the west coast, and I'm on the east coast...

 

[kh54s10]

Orange and round is the only way to go. I get 80% efficiency on every batch! It does it's own sparge, then it washes itself.

 

[mux]

biab sucks!

+1

 

[midfielder5]

+1000 for blue coolers. Way better than the other color coolers.

Blue Cooler of Overwhelming Efficiency

+100 frost resistance
+15 strength
+7 agility
+24 stamina
+13 intellect

30% chance of critical strike upon mash in.
50% chance of 150% efficiency

lol.
but... You forgot to roll the dice for "wisdom"
of blue vs red !!!
I guess you are not a 10th level beer nerd!


Awesome thread.

 

[oldmangrimm]

+1000 for blue coolers. Way better than the other color coolers.

Blue Cooler of Overwhelming Efficiency

+100 frost resistance
+15 strength
+7 agility
+24 stamina
+13 intellect

30% chance of critical strike upon mash in.
50% chance of 150% efficiency

Agi and int? Old school hunter gear?

 

[ktblunden]

Electrolytes. Plants crave them.

Brawndo's got what plants crave!

 

[Stauffbier]

Electrolytes. Plants crave them.

Brawndo's got what plants crave!

One of my all time favorite flicks! I fear the plot is coming true in this day and age!

 

[KISS Brew]

One of my all time favorite flicks! I fear the plot is coming true in this day and age!

Do you like money, too? We should hang out.

 

[Dr1nkBeer]

My orange round mash tun puts me over 90% efficient with no squeezing. It was more in the 70's when I bought pre-crushed grains. I now know that most Brew shops dont adjust for the "best" effiency. I say buy a grain mill. You wont regret it.