I have been brewing less than a month, and I already outgrew the Braumeister. I want to make a fake Belgian tripel I used to make, and it takes 13.5 pounds of grain, which is just over the 13.2-pound limit. For this reason, I had to climb a ladder this morning and retrieve my 40-quart pot and homemade chiller. Think I should go ahead and boil the chiller with the cobwebs and lizard poop still on it? Washing it seems like a lot of work.
Life is expensive now. That pot currently retails for $180.
Anyway, I have to look into BIAB for this and other heavy beers. Bacbrewing makes a gadget that raises the Braumeister grain limit, but there will still be beers that won't fit.
So...how about some help finding a bag?
I was planning to order stuff from Hearts Homebrew. They list an enormous "Brew in a Bag" bag about 24" by 26". My pot is 16.5" wide and 12" high. I assume I want to go way overboard with the bag size so I will have a lot of slack. Look okay?
Link to Bag
Second thing...what do people do about sparging with bags? I assume they don't just pick them up and stand there for 20 minutes waiting for them to drip out. I guess I could rig something up to hold it.
Finally, do I really need to mash and boil crystal malt? I've seen people saying it can be steeped. I guess that could be done with a bag before the boil, and that would put me under the pound limit. I would still need a bag for other beers, though.
Life is expensive now. That pot currently retails for $180.
Anyway, I have to look into BIAB for this and other heavy beers. Bacbrewing makes a gadget that raises the Braumeister grain limit, but there will still be beers that won't fit.
So...how about some help finding a bag?
I was planning to order stuff from Hearts Homebrew. They list an enormous "Brew in a Bag" bag about 24" by 26". My pot is 16.5" wide and 12" high. I assume I want to go way overboard with the bag size so I will have a lot of slack. Look okay?
Link to Bag
Second thing...what do people do about sparging with bags? I assume they don't just pick them up and stand there for 20 minutes waiting for them to drip out. I guess I could rig something up to hold it.
Finally, do I really need to mash and boil crystal malt? I've seen people saying it can be steeped. I guess that could be done with a bag before the boil, and that would put me under the pound limit. I would still need a bag for other beers, though.