Brew in a Bag (BIAB) is All-Grain Homebrew Made Easy
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- BTV goes deep undercover on some BIAB action! After reading so much about how easy and fun it can be, Jake Keeler decides to give the Brew In A Bag method a try. To put it bluntly - he's hooked! Brewing four batches in less than a month, BIAB has elevated Jake's love for homebrewing. Join us for a brew session and discussion about the pros and cons to see if BIAB is right for your homebrewery.
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Still the BEST INTRO SONG EVER!!! 10 years and counting!
So, I have only ever brewed with extracts. My wife, being the lovely, supportive creature she is, bought me a recipe to further my favorite hobby. Unfortunately, it was an all grain recipe. I felt so bad, as she was so disappointed in herself. On top of that, I thought I was looking at hundreds of dollars of extra equipment I never planned on buying. Because of your video, I can happily let her know not to send the grain back! I'm not saying this video saved Christmas in my house, but you kinda did.
That is AWESOME to hear. BIAB is such a fun and easy way to step into all-grain brewing. So glad this helped lift your holiday spirits.
Awesome! I've been doing BIAB for years. You don't have to limit yourself to 3 gallon batches either. I just finished put on tap a Baltic Porter with 15.88 pds of grain. I have a 15 gal. kettle, a large bag, and a small pulley attached to my basement ceiling to lift the bag. Simple. I had someone sew me the bag since I couldn't find a bag large enough. I grind the grain fine and run them through twice. I use about 2.5 qts. per gal. of water as my mash ratio. I get about 70% efficiency.
Another tip on keeping temps during the mash, I have an electric stove and I set the oven to 500 and the radiant heat keeps the temp stable. I might have to set the burner on it's lowest setting for a short time but that is about it. The 5 gallon elastic top paint strainer bags from Lowes fits perfect on a 5 gallon kettle too, and they are cheap. Even doing a full blast burner I have never had one melt. Easiest transition to all-grain ever. Thanks for the video!
This video introduced me to brew in a bag, and now "brew in a bag" is my standard brewing method.
P.S.: You can use paint strainer bags from your local home improvement store.
That's awesome to hear. I still do BIAB more than half the time, mixed in with some regular all-grain and Grainfather brew days. Cheers, Chip.
Likewise, I watched this video back in the day, occasionally I still reference it.
This has got me pumped. I've only brewed once but defiantly going to be trying this method next. Less equipment and ease pic process. Got me pumped! Love the vids
I brew my batches in 16oz increments.
It costs me a bit more in equipment but every pint is fresh and the potential for variety is limitless.
I mainly do 3 gallon BIAB batches. My procedure is 2 quarts per pound of grain, then "sparge" with 1 gallon of water using a very fine grain crush. Under these conditions, I routinely get 75% efficiency. Great video!
I used this as my template. I only had a 5 gallon kettle so I brew 3 gallon batches, so I bought another 5 gallon kettle and do 2 simultaneous batches. I have limited clearance because of my range hood so it's all I could use. It adds maybe 45 minutes to my brew day, but I get 6 gallons in the end. Sometimes I brew 2 different beers. I set my efficiency at 78% and hit it consistently. I also use firmcap to avoid boil-overs given the small kettle. Love the process!
I use a cooler as a mash tun but I don't have a manifold or want one. I split my grain bill between 2 or more 5 gallon paint strainer bags. I lift my bags out, put them in a strainer and do a sparge rinse. on my last batch I got 77% efficiency.
I'm on my 2nd partial mash biab partial boil.The flavors & balance are quite good. This method does indeed work well for pale ales. Good color,great head as well. I use the fresh wort for all hop additions,adding the extract at flame out. Since I'm brewing on an electric stove with aftermarket heating elements,I can easily boil 3 gallons in a 5 gallon BK.
Also, I have a three gallon keg and it's nice for putting in a cooler when you want to take your homebrew on the road.
I've used BIAB for my 5 gallon batches in a 32 quart pot. I use partial mashes, but I still do a quick sparge. Usually no more that a gallon. Using a measuring cup, it takes 5 mins. and you get pretty good efficiency. There is a lot of liquid in those 7lbs of grain and any sparge will definitely help your efficiency. Give it a shot! You have the extra burner...
I should go to sleep but I will look the next episode of Brewing TV. I really much like your stuff. And tomorrow is a brewing day!!
One of the best videos I’ve seen thank you so much
I BIAB 5 gallon batches. I lay an old fridge shelf (from my future fermentation fridge) over the pot, and pour sparge water over the post-mash grainbag. It takes a little more time, but only about 3 minutes. I heat the sparge water during the last 10 minutes of my mash, and then do the pouring straight into my BK while I'm bringing it to a boil. The time lost compared to just pulling and draining the bag is really minimal.
Efficiency isn't a problem for me. 7.5 gallon mash drops to 5.2-5.4 pH with 10 lbs of grain pretty quickly. 5-6% beers are really easy and I'm getting 78% efficiency but to each their own. I do BIAB for the $7-10 startup costs.
i have brewed in a bag and i have made some tasty beer out of it. I prefer brewing in a bag because it just seems a lot simpler. It seems to make sense to brew in a bag if you are brewing 3-5 gallons. I only brew beer up to 5 gallons and it seems the most efficient way. Maybe if you are brewing 10 gallons plus a mesh tank would be the better option.
All grain brewers who spent hundreds if not thousands to brew the same way dislike this video
100% accurate.
i live in a tiny brooklyn apartment and am lazy. needless to say biab works perfectly for me. im on my 6th 3 gallon biab batch and love the results. the actual brew takes around 3.5 hours but only 30 min of that time is actual work. i find that by far, the "hardest" part of the brew is trying to get a stable temp on the mash. sure brew snobs initially look down on me when i mention that im a brew in the baggist, but after they taste my beer the smug smile usually disappears.
Large paint strainer bags with elastic on them from Sherwin-Williams work awesome for BIAB
Great video, guys! This is exactly the info and thorough demonstration I'm looking for as I transition from extract brewing to AG.
Since I last watched this, I met a guy who brews in a bag and uses a $300 engine joist to lift the bag out and he will take hot water and pour it on the bag to sparge it.
That dude needs to look into an electric brewing system.
Awesome videos. I learn so much from watching you guys, I feel like I'm right there brewing with you
I biab a pinking barley wine. Talk about heavy. 27 lbs of pumpkin on top if my grain bill for a 5 gallon batch. Had a original gravity of 1.2 so its a strong one. I did sparge my pumpkin and grain to maximize the sugars. Brewed it on november 14th. Ended with a gravity of 1.025. Bottled last week and now it sits till november.
Big Thanks from behind The Pond. Awesome as usual!
Mash efficiency is basically how much starch you have converted from the grain into sugar.
I don't know the equation, but basically it's calculated by diastatic power (the grain's potential starch to sugar conversion) with darker grains being less diastatic and how much you convert in your mash.
To make it better is hard to say, there are a lot of playing factors and I'm running out of characters remaining.
Chip, your videology is great! Love your handy work and the other two guys are not that bad ether. Lol cheers!
Third brew in a bag attempt here. First two were grain bills of 10.5 and 12.5, went ok for first times out. I also had a heck of a time with temps, but think maybe it's my 2" probe (shush!) not the actual mash. Third attempt was to go off the rails and try 19lbs of grain for a barley wine. (9gal pot) GAK, that was no fun, but def a learning experience. I need to work out my temp issues before trying that again.
Thanks guys for the video! Really interested in this method because I just don't have the room in apartment to do all grain. This looks like something I could really improve my beers without alot of extra equipment. .
I mix BIAB with parti gyle brewing
last time I brewed a Mai bock and a North german Alt. the bock mashed in my cooler and the first runoff is boiled with some topp up vater. at the same time I have the Alt grist mashing in the other cetle BIAB style, I used the bock grains as a lauter filter and and with some sparging get a good vort. Then I mix the biab alt grains with the "bock" grains in the cooler and sparge for a smal beer and this I boil and mix with the strained trub from both my boils.
Come back you guys!
Great vid! Keep 'em coming! Looking forward to the "Irish Stout" brew day vid...
i wish you guys still made these
I don’t understand why he isn’t Sparging. He would get more sugar out of the grain
I'm fired up.
Excellent vid guys
Book in the background:
BEER
Well placed.
Starters aren't needed (or recommended) for dry yeast -- the cell count is much higher than with liquid yeast packs. Rehydrating in warm, pre-boiled water is never a bad idea, however.
What is mash efficiency?, how do you quantify it?, and how do you make it better if it is not at the level you want?
this is how I brew. but I use a mini cooler to mash in.
great video.
Nice video, Whats been your average brew house efficiency? Think this would be great for folks with limited funds and limited space to still get an all grain beer.
Good video lads
"You can find some way to choke down that pale mild" lol....man, I miss Dawson and Keeler
cool brew
Stupid question, but you talk about effiency if og is 1052 or 1060 does that change the taste of the beer or just the alcohol ?
Would I overcome the efficiency issue by "short brewing"? By that I mean aiming to brew slightly less than 3 Gallons of beer with the same quantity of grain?
Great Video Guys! Do you guys do any trub management at all during the brew or does all that left over hop/grains settle down in the fermenter? Would that effect the beer taste/aroma at all?
160 Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Fahrenheit
Me, too.
"I love the freedom of homebrewing." lol
Who's the George Costanza character!
Any issues with scorching the bag as you 'goose' it? Or do you have a false bottom on the kettle?
Oops... missed a number in my original gravity. Started at 1.120. Not 1.2.
Jake, Could you share your Pale Mild recipe with us ?
Just a stupid question as I'm interested in the biab never done it. Sugars from grains o.k. but if you bottle do you use priming sugars ?
Yes. The available sugars will be consumed by the yeast during fermentation. Then you will give them more sugar to consume while bottled so that they will wake back up, eat some sugar, create carbonation, and go back to dormancy.
@Noel Mc comb I highly recommend starting your brewing journey here. www.howtobrew.com/
I know that you guys have disbanded! RIP! It sure was a pleasure learning from you and you will be missed. But i still have open questions :)
BIAB was how i started my obsession with beer brewing. It was a really nice method especially for step mashing and for cleaning up. There was one significant difference between the BIAB and the cooler mash tun approach and that was the amount of sediment carried into the boil with BIAB and especially with a real fine crush to increase efficiency. Brewers take such care to remove the sediment from the mash tun using the vorlauf process, why is the same care not taken with BIAB? Maybe it was the muslin bag purchased from the brew store that was not fit for purpose. Did anyone else have this issue? Is it a problem to have so much gunk during the boil or even some of it inevitably getting in the fermenter?
are you sure it's not just hot break sludge? Are you finding this sediment before you boil or after? Maybe try a finer mesh bag? Paint strainer bags I've heard work well although I've never tried them...
I started biab to get into all grain but I've been using my 3 vessel system for about 4 years and I can say the biab never really left anything behind in the kettle compared to using a mlt. I just had my 2nd kid so I'm going back to biab for a while and I can honestly say I'm stoked to get back into simpler brewing.
Brooklyn is in New York.
Why do you need a ceramic pot to put in the oven? Can’t you just use that stainless steal pot in the oven?
So I've been doing biab for a couple brews now and am really enjoying it. I'm wondering though, does anyone change their pitch rate with the 3 gallon brews? I recently brewed an iipa doing biab that had 87% attenuation. Was using us-05 so I was expecting higher attenuation, but not that high. Could it have been from overpitching?
+Cameron Haluptzok Happy yeast. I ran into the same problem. I resolved it by mashing at a higher temp. I was usually 4-7% higher than I wanted.
Drink every time they say, "Goose it"
Brandon Frederick-Reed Drink every time they say brewing or brew. Now watch every single episode.
Watch again. They said “glaze” more
CHIP what grain mill do you use or recommend ?
i think you guys could say GOOSE IT a few more times :) love your videos!
i got 90% efficiency with grinding malts once :P
A little less water in the first kettle. Than soak the bag in a second.? Aw what the heck add some dme.
Drinking at 9:47 AM?
that bag aint fine enough or big enough :(
What happened to Dawson?
He’s on Chop and Brew once in a while.
What does "goose" mean?
I would imagine it’s playing with the heat levels
chris decker Thank you, Chris. God bless
Chip looks uninterested at the table...lol
Haven't read all of the comments, but a 5 gallon paint straining bag works awesome for this. It has an elastic top that fits nicely over the handles on your pot
I double grind my malts; just run it through once, then pour your crushed grains back ink the mill and crush it again. I consistently get 85% efficiency with this technique. The problem I always have with BIAB is, of course, keeping temps consistent on a gas burner stove. Definitely more babysitting than just mashing in an insulate cooler...