If you recall I caused a bit of an upset a few years ago when I posted about BIAB and the Electrim as it was and still is widely believed that BIAB was invented or discovered here on AHB. That is far from the truth though as it was a HB method used way before AHB or the internet.Bribie G said:The 1985 edition was a reprint of the original that would be probably about 1973 vintage. I lived in Cardiff in 75 and used the book to learn about all grain brewing.
I had a BruHeat boiler (almost identical to the Electrim boiler .. I think the BruHeat is no longer made).
And a bag, they were an optional extra. The current Electrims, which haven't changed much in 40 years, are about 30L but back then I seem to remember they might have been smaller, and couldn't do a full BIAB in the modern sense, and needed a sparge. No real problem, and a rotating sparge arm was an optional as well.
Once the sparge was done and the second runnings added back into the boiler, no problems with doing a full boil.
Yob, the publishing history should be in the front of your 1985 issue?
edit: The Big Book of Brewing (1974) ISBN 0-900841-34-6
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