Ok I'm Bored Let's Do A Speed Baib

[Bribie G]

Start 7.11 Queensland and mexican time, photos to come

 

[beerdrinkingbob]

Start 7.11 Queensland and mexican time, photos to come

you mashed in yet, it's 7.20 pm :blink: :blink:

 

[thylacine]

OK, I'm hooked! Another brewing variation, ie "BAIB". You're emulating commercial 'swill'? eg. BAIB = brew as if beer....?

 

[Bribie G]

Urn filled and heating, mill set up and grain weighed. There may be some lag because my ****** Kodak seems to crash the Internet for some reason and I have to keep restarting. No wonder they went bust.



7.36

 

[tipsy]

Hurry it up, I'm getting thirsty

 

[rotten]

mashed in yet?

 

[dkaos]

Hopefully the mash is on! What are you Brewing?

 

[Bribie G]

Grain milled at 7.53



Dough in 8.00

Now mashed in at 66 degrees (8.11) and timer set for one hour.





I'm doing a Tetley's style for serving on smoothflow with my on-its-way nitro setup

4kg TF Perle
a tad of Caraaroma

Goldings and Northdown.

Around 4% ABV, a bit weak for my taste but nice quaffing.

 

[Rowy]

Now you've got me thinking about the freedom of bulk buying grain instead of as I go....................... <_<

 

[Shifter]

Tetleys, thats West not East, and porported to be maidens water?

 

[doon]

I really need to get a mill!

 

[Bribie G]

Tetleys is Yorkshire, or was till the cnuts at Carlsberg closed down the Leeds Brewery.

So not West or East, my Yorkshire is at the

Sorted out the hops, a single addition of Goldings and Northdown (signature of Tetleys) then a tad more Northdown dry hopped for the citrussy clean tang.

The Northdown are new season from Ross, nearly wept when I opened the foil and sniffed.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Up the whites - EPL promotion fo' sho' with a new gaffer!

 

[Bribie G]

Unwrap and stick in the immersion heater and get up to mashout. No penalty here as you are going to heat the thing to boiling anyway, but constant pumping up and down required to get that sweet wort out of the husks, but only take it to 78 to avoid tannin extraction.



Hoist and bring to boil.



Listen to my Goddess for a while

Mix up and hydrate some Brew Bright and get out the yeast nutrient (The brown stuff, from Rosscoe - excellent source of Zinc, boron, unobtanium etc)

 

[Adam Pike]

HECTIC!!!

 

[Bribie G]

She boil



Fit a Ross 2 ft square grain bag as a hop swimming pool and pitch hops. All the heat of the boil has to go through the bag and gives the hops a good seeing to. The bag retains the hop pellet debris very well.



Set timer

Groove with for a while

 

[Bribie G]

Now you've got me thinking about the freedom of bulk buying grain instead of as I go....................... <_<

I brewed many a fine drop using milled malt batches from CB but since I got a mill and grain by the sack it is indeed a freedom. The other advantage is that the spec grains - which I buy exclusively from CB - last almost indefinitely in the husk here in SEQ - I recently came across some of my old milled grains such as Carared that must be a year old at least and they smelled like guinea pig food whilst the whole grains are as new.

Edit: local topknot pigeons were grateful, they know where to come - also you don't need to be in a bulk buy, single sack rates aren't too bad - not as good as a BB but well worthwhile.

 

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Looking good

 

[Bribie G]

Boiled and Brew Bright added, let it settle down for a while then cube.

Stroll down to my for a while

 

[Bribie G]

We have wort



I'll post OG shortly if I can find refrac

 

[Bribie G]

1043 bang on

 

[kymba]

good work bribie!

are you going to pitch now or wait and risk infection???

 

[stux]

good work bribie!

are you going to pitch now or wait and risk infection???

No chill. No risk







*virtually

 

[Bribie G]

I've got a smacko of 1498 swollen up, I'll do a starter with some left over wort from this brew and pitch tomorrow.

 

[kymba]

No chill. No risk







*virtually

yeah, although I was trying to take the piss about another thread that was going off last night

 

[donburke]

yeah, although I was trying to take the piss about another thread that was going off last night

its ok, i understood where you were coming from, and i did see the humour in it B)

 

[Dave70]

At the risk of starting a bunfight, does anyone see BIAB as a a step backwards from batch sparging?
Personally, I can only see pros in my own situation since I have rafters on which to mount pulleys on, a strong back, a kettle more than large enough to handle the full volume required, insulation and occy straps.

Not having to empty and clean the esky of spent grain or worry about stuck sparges (albeit, rare) and keeping the whole operation in one vessel makes me wonder why I haven't had a closer look before.
Is there some giant fly in the ointment I'm missing here?

 

[bum]

Is there some giant fly in the ointment I'm missing here?

Not really. You'll most likely see significantly more turbid wort into the kettle but if you're doing everything right it'll be just as clear as 3V out.

My bunfight causing question (that I've been biting my tongue over since last night, but since Dave has broken the silence...) - I thought one of the major benefits of BIAB was always supposed to be that it is faster. 4hrs for a simple batch while aiming to break the land speed record? Dunno if I see a benefit there - unless you want the good core workout with the heavy lifting, I suppose.

Even though there was a question mark in there, I agree that the above is more of an observation than a question. Interested in people's replies though so it counts.

 

[Maheel]

I often think the same thing Dave

i am currently building a 3V (3 keggle) rig and have contemplated building it into a 3 X biab rig so i can do triples of 3 varieties at once ....

 

[stef]

This debate rears its head pretty often. I'm a BIABer, but i've just bought a big esky for mashing in. While i'm very happy BIABing, i find it really hard to do higher gravity brews. I have a growing desire to brew a few huge IIPAs, RIS etc, so want to have the flexibility to mash in an esky with manifold for those occasions. However, I think for my average brews i'll continue to BIAB.