Question

[MerryMonk]

I see people on here talking about doing BIAB in single kettle on the stovetop, but I was thinking.....What if you made a bag big enough to line the inside of a cooler in entirety. I mean not use a SS braid or CPVC manifold or anything....just use the bag as a means to separate your grains from your mash. If it was big enough to line the whole inside of the cooler it would allow you to stir the grains well and allow them to free float within the water just as if you were using the braid/manifold method. Has anyone ever tried this and if so....have you had any success?

 

[Jersh]

sounds like a lot more work to me than it's worth... if you have the cooler, why not spend the extra ~$10 to build a manifold ?

 

[Runyanka]

I can also see the bag getting screwed up inside the cooler once you start stirring. Liek Jersh said above, just covert it with a cheap braid, also, you dont need the ball valve and all the non-sense if you pocket book says no. All you have to do is fee a piece of tubing through a stopper, and put it inside the cooler, thus, the wort pressure pushes the stopper deeper into the hole in the cooler.