wilserbrewer BIAB bags

[brew703]

I have 35 brews on my Wilser bag. It's still like the day I got it except a little discolored. Same with the hop sock.
Great bags!

 

[TANSTAAFB]

So, apparently it's possible to get a stuck sparge with BIAB if you use a metric f#ckton of rye and wheat 🤔

Had to make a Zapap in a hurry and added a couple of hours to my brew day messing with it. Note to self, use those rice hulls even when BIABing it! First brews with my WilserBags and the Kolsch went smooth as silk...the rye hop bomb, not so much! Gotta say I love the BIAB bags and the hop bags are incredible. No worries with the plate chiller

 

[LLBeanJ]

So, apparently it's possible to get a stuck sparge with BIAB if you use a metric f#ckton of rye and wheat

Had to make a Zapap in a hurry and added a couple of hours to my brew day messing with it. Note to self, use those rice hulls even when BIABing it! First brews with my WilserBags and the Kolsch went smooth as silk...the rye hop bomb, not so much! Gotta say I love the BIAB bags and the hop bags are incredible. No worries with the plate chiller

Yeah, rye is the absolute worst. Wheat can get pretty sticky, but as soon as you add even a moderate amount of rye to any grain bill, expect to have a difficult time. I always heat to mashout temp before pulling the bag when brewing with rye or wheat for this very reason.

 

[soccerdad]

So, apparently it's possible to get a stuck sparge with BIAB if you use a metric f#ckton of rye and wheat 🤔

I find that it is better to use a $hit ton, as opposed to a metric f#ckton. Try it - you might not get stuck.

 

[wilserbrewer]

I've had some slow runoffs w/ BIAB. I find it can help to alternately lift each side of the bag to expose fresh material that is clean and above the "sludge line"

Sometimes a layer of "mud", and that is a brewing term for the creamy crud at the top of the mash, forms and you can help the drain by shifting the grist back and forth to expose the upper clean portions of the bag.

Perhaps not with a metric f*ckton of rye, but I've had success with a bit less.

 

[berndawg84]

Would you share the blind pig recipe?

Sorry just seeing this. Here's the recipe

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/russian-river-blind-pig-ipa-clone/

 

[berndawg84]

Would you share the blind pig recipe?

Sorry just seeing this.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/russian-river-blind-pig-ipa-clone/

 

[TANSTAAFB]

I've had some slow runoffs w/ BIAB. I find it can help to alternately lift each side of the bag to expose fresh material that is clean and above the "sludge line"

Sometimes a layer of "mud", and that is a brewing term for the creamy crud at the top of the mash, forms and you can help the drain by shifting the grist back and forth to expose the upper clean portions of the bag.

Perhaps not with a metric f*ckton of rye, but I've had success with a bit less.

That's exactly what I tried...worked great with the Kolsch in the big 20 gallon pot. Not so much with the RyePA in the 10. The "ears" of the bag kept sticking out and spilling wort outside the pot when I tried to roll it around or squeeze and the mud had covered everything. That's why I made the Papazian special Zapap!

 

[geoffm33]

Never mind

 

[rmajor55]

Any current specials on right now?

 

[Murphys_Law]

So, apparently it's possible to get a stuck sparge with BIAB if you use a metric f#ckton of rye and wheat 🤔

Had to make a Zapap in a hurry and added a couple of hours to my brew day messing with it. Note to self, use those rice hulls even when BIABing it! First brews with my WilserBags and the Kolsch went smooth as silk...the rye hop bomb, not so much! Gotta say I love the BIAB bags and the hop bags are incredible. No worries with the plate chiller

I'll see your metric f#ckton of rye and raise you 10 slices of toast! I make a pumpernickel stout and add 10 pieces of pumpernickel bread (toasted and cut into small pieces) to my mash. Add that to all the rye/flaked rye and you have one hell of a stuck sparge on your hands! And all over your arms, patio etc.

I was worn out trying to get that thing to drain!!

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Right! I can only imagine MORE sticky crap added to the mix! Thus the Zapap

 

[Morrey]

I'll see your metric f#ckton of rye and raise you 10 slices of toast! I make a pumpernickel stout and add 10 pieces of pumpernickel bread (toasted and cut into small pieces) to my mash. Add that to all the rye/flaked rye and you have one hell of a stuck sparge on your hands! And all over your arms, patio etc.

I was worn out trying to get that thing to drain!!

Interesting you should mention using pumpernickel bread and rye in a beer. Just this week I was watching an episode with exotic food guru Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel. He was in Russia and a segment of the program showed a portable biergarten set up on the street serving a very low abv beer like you said brewed with rye and pumpernickel. The beer poured an amber color like an ESB and Andrew said it sold for about 25 cents for a pint. Russians drink it all thru the entire day according to Zimmern. Never heard of this before....sounds good!!!

Sorry, clearly off topic.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Kvass correct?

 

[Morrey]

Kvass correct?

Yes, I just looked it up and that's exactly what it is. Never had that before.

 

[Brew_G]

Apologies if this question has been addressed already, but...

Has anyone used wilser's hop bag for dry hopping in the keg with pellets?

I've got a dry hop bag from him, but haven't used it yet (love his other products though!), and after a hiatus I'll be brewing up an IPA in a week or two. It'll be only my second beer on tap, and the first to be dry hopped, and I want to make sure I'm not left with a bunch of gunk that'll clog the dip tube.

Thanks!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Apologies if this question has been addressed already, but...

Has anyone used wilser's hop bag for dry hopping in the keg with pellets?

I've got a dry hop bag from him, but haven't used it yet (love his other products though!), and after a hiatus I'll be brewing up an IPA in a week or two. It'll be only my second beer on tap, and the first to be dry hopped, and I want to make sure I'm not left with a bunch of gunk that'll clog the dip tube.

Thanks!

I use it. It works great.

 

[Brew_G]

I use it. It works great.

Thanks, Bongo!

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Apologies if this question has been addressed already, but...

Has anyone used wilser's hop bag for dry hopping in the keg with pellets?

I've got a dry hop bag from him, but haven't used it yet (love his other products though!), and after a hiatus I'll be brewing up an IPA in a week or two. It'll be only my second beer on tap, and the first to be dry hopped, and I want to make sure I'm not left with a bunch of gunk that'll clog the dip tube.

Thanks!

Yep, me too. I use a stainless clamp around the string and the relief valve housing inside the lid. Absolutely love it, see no reason to dry hop any other way!

 

[Brew_G]

Yep, me too. I use a stainless clamp around the string and the relief valve housing inside the lid. Absolutely love it, see no reason to dry hop any other way!

Good to hear...and I'm not at all surprised!

Edit: I went ahead and ordered two more dry hop bags, since I want to make sure I've got enough to cover me should I want to have three super hoppy beers on tap at once (which quite often will likely be the case!).

 

[Murphys_Law]

I personally don't like to hop in a bag (dry hop or boil). I feel, rightly or wrongly, that I'm leaving too much hop goodness behind.

If you have a way to cold crash you can drop all that hop debris out of the beer and transfer a clean beer.

But yes, his product is first rate!

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I personally don't like to hop in a bag (dry hop or boil). I feel, rightly or wrongly, that I'm leaving too much hop goodness behind.

If you have a way to cold crash you can drop all that hop debris out of the beer and transfer a clean beer.

But yes, his product is first rate!

I think the OP was talking about using the bag in the keg to dry hop, so the hops are in the whole time the keg is being served from.

 

[Brew_G]

I personally don't like to hop in a bag (dry hop or boil). I feel, rightly or wrongly, that I'm leaving too much hop goodness behind.

If you have a way to cold crash you can drop all that hop debris out of the beer and transfer a clean beer.

But yes, his product is first rate!

I love the bags that wilser provides, so I agree with you completely. I use a hop bag in the boil, and while I do understand your point about leaving behind hop goodness, I'm mindful of using my mash paddle to regularly press on the bag to make sure that "goodness" comes out! As for dry hopping in the fermenter, I just throw the pellets in and cold crash in a water bath.

I think the OP was talking about using the bag in the keg to dry hop, so the hops are in the whole time the keg is being served from.

That's exactly what I meant, BIB.

I've never keg hopped (again...this will be only my second beer in a keg), so I didn't want to make a big mistake the first time around, I *really* don't want to have to clean up a clogged post/poppet/dip tube!

 

[Brew_G]

Good to hear...and I'm not at all surprised!

Edit: I went ahead and ordered two more dry hop bags, since I want to make sure I've got enough to cover me should I want to have three super hoppy beers on tap at once (which quite often will likely be the case!).

Hop bags showed up on Friday (only four days after I ordered), and it appears a homebrew fairly dropped in an extra (bigger) bag (total of 3) for good measure.

What a fantastic service wilser provides!

 

[nymtber]

I recently ordered a BrewBuilt 10gal kettle from MoreBeer, 6 1/2 years of extract brewing in a 5Gal kettle and I'm sick of buying top-off water, but...too lazy to sanitize my own tap water for topping off (call it overly cautious, too). With that order, I put in an all-grain porter kit to give BIAB a shot, I have a cheap BIAB bag I got years ago and never used...

Then, I read through this post and many others praising the wilserbrewer bags, and just put in my order for the "Grand Slam" kit! I brew in my enclosed porch, so I can screw an eye-bolt into the ceiling (2x4) and hoist the bag up to let drain... though when its cold out I'll mash indoors for heat retention, but still hoist the bag up outside, and use my 5-gal kettle to catch the wet bag/grains, and batch sparge in the future (not for the first brew, I'm gonna keep it simple for my first BIAB).

Any recommendation on BIAB calculators so I know how much water, temps, etc to use? The one on biabbrewing.com is easy enough to use, but is there a better one?

 

[doug293cz]

This is my favorite calculator (even works for more than BIAB): https://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advancedhttps://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advanced

Brew on

 

[MaxStout]

This is my favorite calculator (even works for more than BIAB): https://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advancedhttps://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advanced

Brew on

That's the one I use, too. I hit my numbers (or get damn close) each time.

 

[balrog]

That's the one I use, too. I hit my numbers (or get damn close) each time.

Ditts to the o

Love that calculator.

 

[nymtber]

This is my favorite calculator (even works for more than BIAB): https://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advancedhttps://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advanced

Brew on

Thanks! That one looks pretty thorough, too! I'll bookmark that link

 

[nymtber]

My grand slam kit arrived today! Bag looks great and very strong, pulley system will work nice (Got a lag eye bolt from Tractor Supply on my way to work), and honestly the big surprise was the hop bags. They are HUGE!

Tomorrow before mowing I'll get the eye bolt set and test out the pulley system, might even buy a secondary pulley just to make my life easier yet.

Should be brewing Saturday. Still have to get the LP tank filled...