I want to do an all grain recipe, but lack the space to have the equipment. Can I use an all grain recipe using the biab technique and get the same results?
Absolutely. BIAB is just an all grain technique.
It’s a good idea to have some DME on hand in case you don’t achieve the OG you are shooting for, but that’s good advice in general and not just for BIAB.
Ok, awesome. Thank you.
If you buy a kit with crushed grains request that they be crushed twice. You’ll get better efficiency that way with BIAB.
Also, I wouldn’t do a traditional BIAB. I would reserve a gallon of the strike water and use it to do a semi-sparge. This will also help with effeciency. Simply lift out the grain bed, place it on a rack over the BK, and slowly pour the water over the grain in different areas.
[quote=“Loopie Beer”]If you buy a kit with crushed grains request that they be crushed twice. You’ll get better efficiency that way with BIAB.
Also, I wouldn’t do a traditional BIAB. I would reserve a gallon of the strike water and use it to do a semi-sparge. This will also help with effeciency. Simply lift out the grain bed, place it on a rack over the BK, and slowly pour the water over the grain in different areas.[/quote]
You can also just tie the bag and drop it into a spare bucket/fermenter of warm sparge water.
FYI, I also went to BIAB when I had a smaller place, and just in the interest of decluttering/de-gearing. I now have a bigger place and still BIAB and LOVE it.
I think double crushing the grain is an old wives tale. I do my same recipe in a tun and also biab and get pretty much the same efficiancy. I don’t crush my own grain I let them do it at my local store. Let me add I do a pour over sparge. I did try a full volume biab and lost efficiency so maybe a double crush would help there. Another benefit of the pour over sparge is I don’t have to worry about my volume. I shoot for a gallon or so under and just top off with the pour over. Couldn’t be simpler. Welcome to all grain, it’s how beer is made.
Yes, but the purpose of double crushing isn’t so you can get the same efficiency as you would in your tun (assuming you do some kind of sparge with BIAB). It’s so you can get way better efficiency by pulverizing the grains to the point where you would have lautering issues with a traditional tun.
In theory then I think you would get better efficiency with double crushed grain in BIAB
Unless you’re tightening up the gap on the second crush I fail to see how double crushing does much of anything.
