Hi all, Bob from Norway here ... completely noob on brewing and just about to start my first BIAB brew.
As part of my starting brewing career, me and some friends jumped pretty blindly onto the BeerBrew30-train and completed a couple of batches without studying too much up front. We did almost all the errors in the book (ha ha!!) and learned a lot.
In the process of studying how to refine the BeerBrew30-process and after a whole lot of reading, I stumbled across this site - and for the first time, got some real explanations about BIAB. While seeing the word "BIAB" many times before in Norwegian forums, I had difficulties understanding the differences and benefits between BIAB and other mash/boil/sparge techniques. Very often other BIAB-discussions also included a sparging step, and I was somewhat confused about correct levels of water for mashing, boil and later sparging.
This site has put some real efforts into explaining why full volume and no sparge makes sense. "The Commentary" explains the process with tea-spoon details! And BIABacus, what a fantastic tool!
As a result, I have bought a traditional and large enough kettle for a full volume mash/boil and will first try to brew an IPA. I have used BIABacus to calculate the volume of water needed for full volume for my all grain-kit and hopefully I know a lot more later this week!
Take care everybody and happy brewing!
Bob
Statistics: Posted by rvoith — Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:26 pm