moto748
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When I first made kits, in the 80s, I used a Burco boiler, a plastic bucket and demo-johns, a thermometer, and a hydrometer. But I soon went to buying tins of liquid DME and loose hops. Then, from that, went to adding some grains. And then to all grain, but still adding some sugar.
When I re-started last November, same thing. of course this site has given a huge supply of recipes, directly and indirectly, which has been a massive help.
But yeah, I'm all about BIAB. I use, and recommend, simply making up bags out of stockinette rolls (buy from Halfords or similar, people use it to polish their cars). I bought some more the other day. Cost me £1.68 for a big rolls. Just cut a length of the stockinette, which is in effect a long tube of cotton, into a length around a metre long, tied a knot in one end,and there's your grain bag. You can cut a shorter length and use it for hops too. Grains are weighed into the bag and dropped into the boiler. I can, and do, use a similar technique with smaller bags in a 15 litre stock-pot for small batches done on the cooker hob.
If you have some means of holding a decent quantity of liquid at mashing temperature, I don't believe you *need* anything else. Certainly at first.
When I re-started last November, same thing. of course this site has given a huge supply of recipes, directly and indirectly, which has been a massive help.
But yeah, I'm all about BIAB. I use, and recommend, simply making up bags out of stockinette rolls (buy from Halfords or similar, people use it to polish their cars). I bought some more the other day. Cost me £1.68 for a big rolls. Just cut a length of the stockinette, which is in effect a long tube of cotton, into a length around a metre long, tied a knot in one end,and there's your grain bag. You can cut a shorter length and use it for hops too. Grains are weighed into the bag and dropped into the boiler. I can, and do, use a similar technique with smaller bags in a 15 litre stock-pot for small batches done on the cooker hob.
If you have some means of holding a decent quantity of liquid at mashing temperature, I don't believe you *need* anything else. Certainly at first.