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Hmm makes sense. I'm still curious about the no sparge though. I can see why the bag would make it easy for no stuck sparges but I don't understand why that allows you to do away with sparging all together. Thanks again

Thanks so much for the help and the clarification. The thread you posted was very helpful. Two questions came up for me though: 1) The immersion chillers; can bottles of frozen water suffice for a substitute? 2) The no sparge method; why, does it seem, you can get away without doing it...

Thank you for the response it was helpful. I should have been more specific: I meant adding cold water when it boils over. I may be wrong here, but in a number of videos, the process of BIAB involves having various water temperatures at different times. For example, having a boil at one...

I plan on doing my first BIAB. I do not have a propane/outdoor burner, but I have this faux fire place, and am thinking about building a stand around it. Question: Will it be okay if it does not have a flame adjustment valve? A lot of videos seem to use them, but could I not just add water in...

Thanks for your reply! Good to know I am not in danger. The kit was $33, cheaper than brewing with DME and LME, probably not as cheap as all grain though.

That is, I am assuming it's a pre-mixed wort. There was no DME/LME

Yes it was a pre-mixed wort, which was added to water. I just got the 1.8 gallons of water it called for to mix with it from the tap.

Thanks for your reply. Wouldn't the need to cold break the wort only apply to a boiling brew? I am not sure what the wort stuff you get in those kits actually is to be honest, but I assume they have been pre-boiled.

Hello, I am making a Brew House Beer Kit (Pale Ale) - so no boiling extracts, just dump everything into a fermenter. I waited 8 hours to add my yeast as it took a while to get to the 23 C mark. Will this be a problem?

Hi thanks for your reply, I wasn't aware that there were different kinds of kits. The kit I bought today is an all extract kit. That is, there are no steeping additions/all grain ingredients. It was $34. It's a pale ale from a company called "The Brew House" Also the pale ale...

Because I found that at my LHBS it $7 for 1 kg of LME, and about the same for 500 G of DME. I need at east 2 of each for my recipe, and with hops and all that buying a easy beer kit seems so much cheaper. This seems as a surprise to me though! Is this really how it is?

It seems to me that I may have been mistaken in assuming that brewing with extracts are cheaper than with a kit. Can someone confirm this?

Hello, I visited my LHB today and they were selling 1 KG of pale malt extract (DME) for $7.00, and about the same for DME that was only 500 grams. What's the deal? I'm better off just buying a beer kit eh?

Thanks for your reply. Yes I feel the "smart" thing to do is to say what my bottle tells me. But then I can't help but think maybe that's too much, because a lot of the experienced people tell me otherwise (14 ml/5 gallons or 19 liters)

Thanks a lot for your reply. I guess I'll just use 1/3 as you suggested to a full "scoop" depending on what mood I am in. With Iodophor however, I get the impression I have to be more accurate. My bottle suggests I use 1ml/liter, so 19 L/5 gallons, or 1.3 tbspoon/5 gallons. However popular...

Hi, I am having difficulty finding the right ratio of water/iodopher. The instructions call for 1 ml of idopher per 1 litre. Is that too much? It doesn't say the ppm.

Hi, In "How to Brew" by John Palmer - he suggests using 1 table spoon per gallon of sodium percarbonate (Oxi Clean). Yet after doing a search here on the forum, it seems many of you use 1/8 of a scoop to 1 full scoop of Oxi Clean per 5 gallons. There appears to be no consensus. Should I...

May I ask how much water you were boiling when your stove chipped?

I really appreciate you're help. I have some LME that I plan on dropping at knockout. The DME that I a plan on boiling with is 2.5 lbs.

Would that be a fair test though with just water? From what I understand adding an extract to water may prevent it from boiling. I could be wrong there though.