Stove Top Biab

[craigo]

i know theres a post in here somewhere i just cant seem to find it can some one please explain to me how to do biab on the stove using a 20l pot any info would be appreciated.

 

[argon]

Move To All Grain For Thirty Bucks, A tutorial thread for those who are interested in AG

20l Stovetop All Grain Aussie Lager, A tutorial thread

 

[chunckious]

Never heard of it.

 

[craigo]

Move To All Grain For Thirty Bucks, A tutorial thread for those who are interested in AG

20l Stovetop All Grain Aussie Lager, A tutorial thread

thank you that was what i was looking for and thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Bribie G]

Ralph also has a good tutorial on the BIABinfo forum - linky
I think you have to register to see the photos in the posts, not sure, but a good forum to visit if you are keen on BIAB.

 

[craigo]

how do you know how much grain to use and how much water for full strength beers? i like the idea of doing 10l brews.

 

[pimpsqueak]

Try downloading something like Brewmate. It's free and works a treat.
Also, read the thread on Maxi BIAB.

 

[Nick JD]

how do you know how much grain to use and how much water for full strength beers? i like the idea of doing 10l brews.

Check out some recipes. You'll notice that for a 5% beer, that's got a volume of around 20L most recipes use about 5kg of grain.

So you can reasonably assume that for a full strength beer you need 250g of grain per liter of final volume beer (5kg / 20L).

If you want to make a 10L batch of full strength beer, you'll need roughly 2.5kg of grain.

What we're talking about here is efficiency, and boil-off, and dilution rates. You can mash 2.5kg in 15L and then boil down to 10L (noting that the grain will also take fluid with it).

You can mash 2.5kg in 8L and then boil it high gravity ... and then dilute with water to get to the same 10L.

What I'm trying to illustrate here is there are no hard and fast rules, just different methods of achieving the same thing.

As always, the best way to learn is to jump in and do it. It'll all become clear once you see it happen.

I would suggest you mash 2.5L of grain in 15L, in a 19L pot. Lift the bag, squeeze it and boil for 60 minutes (with your hops). If you have less than 10L, add a bit of boiling water. As always, write it all down and measure your specific gravities and volumes and then if anything isn't as you expected, have a think why, and then correct it the next time. Either way, you'll make beer - don't expect everything to go perfectly the first time. The first time you're not making beer, you're teaching yourself how to make beer. There's a difference.

 

[Thirsty Boy]

The first time you're not making beer, you're teaching yourself how to make beer. There's a difference.

Very nice little nugget of wisdom there - all first time brewers should have it written at the top of their recipe sheet.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

As always, write it all down and measure your specific gravities and volumes and then if anything isn't as you expected, have a think why, and then correct it the next time. Either way, you'll make beer - don't expect everything to go perfectly the first time. The first time you're not making beer, you're teaching yourself how to make beer. There's a difference.

Very nice little nugget of wisdom there - all first time brewers should have it written at the top of their recipe sheet.

+1

I made (fluked) my first couple of beers - they were fantastic. Then a couple of failures. It required me to go back, pull apart my process and do more research based on the little I had learned and the lot I'd stuffed up. Finally got the bottom of some issues, fixed and changed my processes, and started consistently producing great beer, and not producing rubbish or fluking good beer.

And there are many more brewers on here, more experienced that I, who will say "you never stop learning".

Goomba

 

[Nick JD]

..."you never stop learning".

You can't get 14% alcohol by volume from Wyeast 1214. Leant that recently. Swirl it all ya want ... the yeast is DEAD. You KILLED IT!

Man, it's SWEET and SYRUPY and freakin' BOOZY!

 

[Dazza88]

Are these biab threads made into articles or stickys? They are good.

 

[craigo]

thanks for the info guys im of on holidays this week when i get back il give it a go.