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    First BIAB Attempt

    Thanks everyone, really appreciate the feedback! Will be incorporating these ideas into my next attempt and adjusting, adjusting, adjusting along the way. Like I said, this was my first attempt at a BIAB, all other brew attempts were extract and turned out good. Part of what I am enjoying...
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    First BIAB Attempt

    Oh yeah, it spent about 10 minutes in a StarSan solution before I did the filter into the fermenter.
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    First BIAB Attempt

    Thanks! Will adjust the efficiency for the recipe next time. Using the brewhouse calculator on this site I just calculated an efficiency of 69.7% for this brew. Grains were singled milled. I will be using double milled grains next time. That is an adjustment I should have put in my original...
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    First BIAB Attempt

    I placed my tilt in the boil kettle as the bag was draining and took periodic measurements. The 1.033 was at the end of the drain and the wort was something like 150F.
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    First BIAB Attempt

    Thanks Mark, here is a link to the recipe: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/443153/ipa-simcoe-amarillo I have enjoyed professionally brewed IPAs with these hops, which was one of the draws for me. I was shooting for a West Coast style IPA, something clean, crisp and hoppy.
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    First BIAB Attempt

    Hey everyone! So I have been wanted to try my hand at BIAB for a while so a few weeks back I took a day off and brewed up an IPA that I found in the recipes section of this site. I was going for as simple of a recipe as I could find from a process standpoint, just so I could focus some of...
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    Dry Hopping Method

    OK, so time to report back on this batch. Overall, I will give it a "B". After letting it condition in the bottle for about 3 weeks with about 1 week of that in the fridge, I would say all of the flavors and aromas had blended and settled. What I learned when I checked it into Untappd was it...
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    Dry Hopping Method

    Bottled this batch on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, not all of the hop settlement from the pellets settled to the bottom and some were still floating around in the fermenter. Was able to keep most of this in the fermenter once I transferred to my bottling bucket. Definite hop aroma to...
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    Dry Hopping Method

    Thanks everyone for your feedback. I added the hops last night directly into the fermenter. Plan is to bottle this Saturday, so that will give me around 4 days of these hops in the beer.
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    Dry Hopping Method

    Thanks everyone for the replies and great advice! In my short time in the homebrewing world I have learned there is no one single method to do.........anything! That is great though, part of what has me so excited about this hobby is the experimentation part of it. I am definitely still in...
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    Dry Hopping Method

    Thanks, appreciate the insight! I don't have any CO2 equipment at this point, but plan on adding that later as I gain experience and get a process down. I think I will skip the bag and just add the hops directly. I am on day 11 of my ferment now and the SG has flattened out, so next time I...
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    Dry Hopping Method

    My first 5 gallon batch is about ready for its dry hop addition and I wanted to get a feel for the methods used by others on this forum. I have read many different ways to do it, such as use a muslin bag or even add the pellets directly to the fermenter and just let them naturally sink to the...
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    Cheers from LA!

    Same here.....one of those things you cannot "unsee"
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    St Patrick’s Day beer

    I am going to brew up a dry Irish stout this weekend from a 2 gallon extract kit. This will be my first stout, so I am excited to see how that turns out.
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    Cheers from LA!

    Thanks everyone! Very refreshing to see such a supportive community in an online forum. I am used to forums being nothing but flame sessions lol I did some research on the Kveik yeast last night and want to thank everyone for sharing that knowledge. Looks like the Voss ale strain will work...
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    Cheers from LA!

    Awesome, and thank you! That solves that problem! :)
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    Cheers from LA!

    Hello all! First post here! I have been brewing for about 3 months now, so I know NOTHING. I have about 5 batches under my belt so far, with only 1 being what I would call "unshareable". All part of the learning curve, right? Currently just brewing extract, but plan on getting into BIAB at...

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