How to Make All Grain Beer - Brew in a Bag - Blonde Ale Recipe

Looking to make the jump to all grain brewing but don’t want to spend a ton of money on equipment? The brew in a bag method may be just what you’re looking for. It requires minimal equipment, is inexpensive to get started, and keeps your brew days shorter than other all grain methods.
Recipe for 6 gallons to fermenter:
Link to recipe on Brewfather:
Beach weather blonde - B. Borowicz share.brewfath...
Water:
9.45 gallons RO water
5.2 g CaCl2
5.4 g Epsom Salt
5.3 g Gypsum
2 ml Lactic Acid
Grains:
7lbs 3.4 oz Pilsner Malt
1lb 7.7 oz Vienna Malt
7.9 oz Victory Malt
7.9 oz White Wheat
3.2 oz CaraPils
Mash @ 152 for 60 minutes
Boil 60 minutes
Hops:
1 oz Cascade @ 60 minutes
.5 oz Cascade @ 10 minutes
.5 oz Simcoe @ 10 minutes
Dry hop with 1 oz Citra for 3 days after fermentation is complete
Yeast:
1 package Imperial Yeast Flagship @ 64 degrees
Raise to 72 towards the end of fermentation
Misc:
1 Whirlfloc tablet @ 15 minutes
1 tsp yeast nutrient @ 15 minutes
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[@donnerundblitzen1717]

There is more than one way to do brew in a bag! You seem to assume that I can only mash/ do BIAG by adding ALL the water at the start for the entire process to the mash kettle, this is not true. There is NO requirement that ALL the water be added during mashing! You can mash with 1.25 to1.5 quarts per lb (for example, 12 lbs of grain x1.25 quarts of water = 3.75 gallons). Then once the mash is over, you can put the brew bag in another vessel and rinse. The grain absorption rate will be about 1 quart per 2 lbs of grain during the mash, or about a gallon and a half will be absorbed with the above example. So, 2.25 gallons of wort after the mash, then rinse with about 3.75 to 4 gallons and add that back to the boil kettle. This will leave somewhere between 6 and 6.5 gallons for the hour-long boil. That boil can be done in an eight-gallon kettle! I know from experience; this is how I do BIAG. I learned this from another video (Mash Hacks) on You Tube. I can actually do a full boil on top of my electric stove top in my apartment. Much of the advice on You Tube is designed to get me to buy much more expensive equipment than I already have. I use an eight-gallon, Northern Brewer Mega pot 1.2. If I was to do a very high gravity beer, I would then do a partial mash, full boil and add 2-4 lbs of DME or LME at the start of the boil. There are some limitations in not having a 10-15 gallon kettle, but even those can be worked around. Austin Homebrew Supply All Grain recipes have excellent, brief info on how to do BIAB that also assumes rinsing after the mashing to bring up the volume in the boil kettle to the amount needed for a full boil.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

BIAB is super easy to get into, and it makes just as good of a beer as any other AG method!

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Yes it does!

[@kymdenton3802]

Love your videos it's the bom

[@TheBruSho]

Very nice, BIAB FTW!

[@alexrocks135]

Why not just buy a 10 gallon cooler off offerup for like $20 and mash with 7 gallons of water in the cooler and use your pot as a HLT and use the rest of the water to sparge the bag
Cooler will save you time of keeping that temp consistent

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

That’s also a good idea, I’ll have to do a better job of searching offer up and Craig’s list for Homebrew equipment.

[@probegt75]

I use an 8 gallon kettle and do 5 gallon batches. I mash with 6.25 gallons then sparge the grain bag with a gallon of water and squeeze as much liquid out I can then start the boil. More than one way to skin a cat 🤘

[@Unsub-Me-Now]

I am re watching some of your older stuff and its not bad man. You had a great start!

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Thanks! It's been fun. When's your next video dropping?

[@Unsub-Me-Now]

@@ElementaryBrewingCo Next Tuesday. It is going to be bananas!