first biab

[bigscotty]

finally gave biab a go after building my own kettle and wort chiller.
i managed to build my kettle for around £25 and my wort chiller was the easy part and only cost £27 for the pipe.
i went for a punk ipa but altered some of the hops as im not too keen on the current brewdog one as it is in my opinion too bitter.
i went with 4.5kg of marris otter and 500g of vienna malt, with the hops i went for simcoe, glacier, citra and nelson.
currently bubbling like hell with a good 2" krausen on it at present, cant wait.
going to dry hop it after 7 days with more simcoe, nelson and glacier.:

 

[MyQul]

Nice. What yeast did you use?

 

[bigscotty]

i went with a safale us-05, it seems to be working well, i can already see its looking a bit clearer already after just a few days, will be dry hopping it with 50gs of simcoe and maybe some of the citra i used but only about 20gs i think

 

[Dogmcdog]

i managed to build my kettle for around £25

I'd be interested to hear what you bought/did for your kettle. What size is it? I'm looking to move up to AG but finding it difficult to find something to act as a boiler without splashing a load of cash...

 

[bigscotty]

I used a 30l plastic bucket £6 from b&q then 2 kettles from tesco £10, used a ball valve tap also from b&q £7 and a 15mm tank connector £3 from ebay then a mesh bag from ebay was £6 so nothing expensive, now bottled and should be ready in 2 weeks