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With smaller batches, you could just put each pot in an ice bath in the sink. That usually cools things down fast enough with smaller boils.

My suspicion is that you would not get good results with only boiling part of the wort, since the boil does more than just isomerize the bittering hops. The boil is important for volatilizing some compounds which you do not want in your fermenter as they can lead to off flavors. More...

Thanks for the update here about the podcast. I am a regular listener and have thoroughly enjoyed every episode. I had already listened to episode 12 before reading this post and just wanted to drop one bit of feedback. Something was apparently off with the recording, because over large parts...

I did it for the first time with my last brew. Still happily sitting at the bottom of the fermenter at day 10 of a Kolsch fermentation. Have a strong mental note in place so that I remember it after I rack to keg and clean out the fermenter.

Bag is great. Used it with a lot less trepidation than when I was using my prior bag. Would absolutely buy again.

I am in. And good luck to all entrants.

This weekend I will be brewing my BIAB adaptation of Bee Cave's Robust Porter (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=56768) Been looking forward to trying this one out for a while and with winter coming on, I thought it would be a good time to have some porter on hand.

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Thanks for the link. Since I have the grains for my recipe on order already, I will try it out with a future brew (already bookmarked it in Chrome). One of the advantages of a smaller batch size is more frequent brewing.