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Hey all, Im 4 brews deep into my BIAB life. A few questions popped into my head after struggling with boil volume and low OG (getting better with each brew). I use beer smith and was wondering how to input something to account for the extra volume after squeezing the grain bag? I feel this...

Trying out my new corona (actually Victoria) mill. Is this too fine for BIAB?

Wanted to share my panel build for my brewpi powered chamber. Everything plugs into their own plugs/outlets for ease of moving or changing if need be. I just need to install a Wi-Fi antenna as the raspberry pi doesnt get the signal in the enclosure. Don't mind the messy wiring... I put it...

I finished my second BIAB and I'm at a loss... My estimated post mash gravity was 1.044. I stirred very well, measured the temp, and used a correction calculator and got 1.040. Ok, thats fine with me I think. My estimated post boil gravity is 1.057. I go though the boil, chill it, transfer to...

So today I brewed my first BIAB. I boiled 5 gallons of water for 15 minutes and covered with a lid until room temp. I measured the remainder and calculated the loss x 4 to equal 60 minutes. It came out to be aboit 1.5g/hr. So I used Beer Smith to figure pre-mash water volume and got 8.65 g...

I've got a brew planned for this weekend and went to look at my Fast Pitch and saw the canned date is 5-5-16... Is that too old to use as a starter?

So I'm getting my new to me keggle ready for my first biab. I have boiled water in it to test, but it keeps leaving a white sludge/sediment at the bottom. I've scrubbed it down with PBW with no changes. I'm hoping its not something going on with the keg that'll cause me to not be able to use...

When using pellet hops, is it bad that the hop matter ends up in the fermenter after the boil? Im just trying to tack down the reason for odd taste in all my brews.

Hey everyone, for the last year or so I have been in the process of fine-tuning my fermentation chamber powered by a Raspberry Pi and Brew Pi controller. My latest addition which I'm currently working on is indicator LEDs that will light to notify me that either the heater is on or the freezer...

I built my own stir plate with a PC fan, laptop charger, magnets, and a potentiometer a year ago. I am now finally getting sick of it, and want to know how to fix it. The potentiometer seems to only have a tiny amount of adjustment on the speed of the fan. It's pretty much either on, or off...

I've never made one yet but I'm planning to soon. I read to the beginner's guide and didn't clearly see anyone speak of how to bottle their fermented cider after sweetening it, but then bottle carbonating it so that they don't explode because of the added "Sweet" Does anyone care to elaborate?

So I've got my new BIAB setup almost finished. I am boiling water in my keggle with a Darkstar 2.0 just to see how long itll take. So i started with 8 gallons of 62° water. Im an hour and 45 minutes in and its just about 200°. I feel it should be a bit quicker than this... Any tips or ideas?

I just finished my DIY sighttube and its not too bad. I could've done better had I had a dremel and a little patience. But all in all, it'll do what it needs to. Its a polycarbonate plastic tube with a compression fitting in the T. Then I used a 1/2 copper pipe and sliced it down the middle...

Ive got a newly installed sight glass, but now I want to slide a piece of copper piping over it and cut a 3/8" slit out of it the long way to be able to see the plasic pipe for the sight glass. I want to try etching volume markings in the copper the way people do to stainless with a qtip...

Im going to start biab soon and i have a keggle and a darkstar 2.0 burner. Will the burner be sufficient to boil 8 gallons? Or should I be saving for a bigger burner?

I just picked up my new keggle, and plan on doing my first biab within a couple weeks. How on earth do i even start to figure out how much water I need to get started? Ive read you need to calculate for grain absorption (but how do i know hoe much itll absorb?), how much will evaporate (no...