Graham wheeler recipes for biab

[Marcusp]

I've finally decided to take the plunge after 12 months of making kits and I'm going to convert to biab.
I've bought graham wheelers book "British real ale" and can't wait to have a go at the recipes however there is no mention of the biab method.

I've got a 50ltr shiny pot and a biab bag but can anyone help me with the recipes. Do I just follow them as for the ag method or do they have to be adjusted for the biab method and if so how ?

 

[andybrew]

I've done a few reciepes and just followed the reciepe. I did adjust the water using a spreadsheet on the biabrewer website but as soon as I knew loss as to kettle and boil off just use brewmate

 

[LeithR]

Me 2 - I've been successfully brewing GW's recipe's in BIAB since day 1 (2 years ago) the Old Peculier is particularly good - its now 5 months old. Also Marc Ollossons. Just need to adjust the water apart from that NP.

Good luck!! :thumb:

 

[calumscott]

I plug the recipe into Beersmith, tweak the numbers for a bit lower efficiency, up the pale malt to replace any sugar and run with it.

I did a BIAB how to with a brew day spreadsheet which will help you work out the parameters for your kit like dead space and boil off rates etc. :thumb:

 

[RobWalker]

Yeah, just what cal said - if your efficiency is lower then add more pale malt, or boil some more off - it'll probably be slightly out of balance with the original recipe, but really not enough to warrant worrying :lol: I buy all grain ingredient kits all the time, they're great, so easy to use and no crappy leftovers! :thumb:

 

[Marcusp]

Cheers guys can't wait to get started

 

[artyb]

nice one you wont regret going biab.... :thumb:
i did a couple of snpa brews from the maltmiller,
no problems at all,

as rob says the stuffs all together in the kit hops and yeast and its a good way to get your head around all grain brewing... :party:

 

[IPA]

I've finally decided to take the plunge after 12 months of making kits and I'm going to convert to biab.
I've bought graham wheelers book "British real ale" and can't wait to have a go at the recipes however there is no mention of the biab method.

I've got a 50ltr shiny pot and a biab bag but can anyone help me with the recipes. Do I just follow them as for the ag method or do they have to be adjusted for the biab method and if so how ?

Now that you have Graham's book why not download his BEER ENGINE software? It's dead simple to use it's free and you can find it here.
http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/main/ ... eerengine/

 

[StrangeBrew]

Have brewed a few from Wheelers book using BIAB in a 50 litre pot. OG pretty much matches or very slightly exceeds the results predicted with Beer Engines default efficiency setting (75% I think from memory).

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[rpt]

I use the BIABacus spreadsheet which tells me how much water to use and adjusts for likely efficiency.