carniebrew said:
So Jaypes, given Stux has dobbed you in as the BIAB spokesperson....how do you do BIAB with a partial boil?
That was edit trickery
Anyway, if you have a small boil pot. You can do Maxi-BIAB.
That will get you say a 20L brew out of a 15L pot.
But you can always make up the missing gravity with some extract + water. Or alternatively... brew less volume
The point is to try ag wort, then try a mini-biab, then if you like ag and biab, try upgrade.
So, 40$ for a FWK is not 40$ for a beer.. its 40$ for the chance to try ag wort and see if you like it.
And you get the cube that you can use later too, a 10-15$ value.
Then using a 15-20L pot you can use on a stove you can make 10-15L of all-grain beer... easily. Just takes 4$ of voile from spotlight. no sewing even required! no chiller required... just put the pot in the laundry sink and surround with cooling water.
http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/44264-20l-stovetop-all-grain-aussie-lager/
Then if you want you can add a bucket and make 20-23L batches with a bit of extra dicking around to do a sparge and post-boil dilution
And if after that, you want to have less dicking about... then get a larger pot + heat source (or a 40L urn)
Its the progression, and about getting where you want to be with minimal investment before deciding to take it to the next level
and if you're like me, then you get a 100L pot so you can do triple batches... and then upgrade to a 3V because lifting 25KG of wet grain gets old
no equipment gets left behind though
BTW, my old single batch biab brew days were 4 hours. My batch cost is 12-20$/keg, including gas and yeast