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Well I finally did it.
Couple of things I need to be aware of.
Although I had a rolling boil, about 40 minutes in I partially covered the top and the boil became much more rolling without boiling over.

My mash lost quite a bit of temp despite me wrapping it in a body warmer and towels.

To conserve water I used a fermenting bin filled with water and bottles of frozen water and pump to run the wort chiller.
Wasn't quite as effective as I hoped and had to keep exchanging warm water for cold.

Below is my process.
Constructive criticism welcome .
(This was done while looking after my 11 month old as swmbo is away on a hen weekend)
Cheers
Mark

9.30
Heat 22 l to 75 c

10.25
Water at 75 c
Added grain at 19 c
Temp at 67 c
Leave 1 hour
Heat 10 litres to 75 c

11.30
Final mash temp. 64.9 c
Dunk sparge for 15 mins at 66 c
Total pre boil volume 27 l
Pre boil gravity 1036 at 22 deg.
Rolling boil at 12.37
60 mins Hops added
3 caps de former

At 15 mins add wort chiller
At 15 mins add 1 tsp Irish moss

13.42
boil complete
Post boil volume 23.75 l

14.56
22.5 c
Drained into fermenting bin
Og 1040 at 22 c
Fermenter volume 22 l

Looks good! Very meticulous in you notes....I cba myself.

Don't see the need to sparge with BIAB unless your pot is too small.

Cheers daf

Pot is only 33 litres. With the grain would be close I think. So I did the sparge to keep the mess down. Wasn't really much extra work. Just heated my 13 ish litre stock pot up while mash was taking place

No turning back now!

Too true. I was toying with the idea of doing an IPA I got this evening but decided not to. Lol

Nice one Collie. Looks like a great first AG. Keep us updated.

Will do mate.
Preparing to do my home brew company's American double IPA tomorrow with any luck.

Colliefish wrote:Will do mate.
Preparing to do my home brew company's American double IPA tomorrow with any luck.

Well good luck. Quite ambitious, but go for it.

The double ipa was my first biab.

Impatiently waiting for the 18th when it hits 2 weeks in the bottle for a "check of carbonation..."

Good job Collie, congrats on your first AG and best wishes for tomorrow, I see the force is strong in you already!

Cheers guys.
I have to do mash/sparge slightly different to the instruction due to me brewing it in a bag and instruction are for 3 vessel set ups
Well it's 6.46 am. Here we go.

Good luck Coll, hope it all goes to plan.

Guessing you're somewhere mid boil (0916 as i type thie.

Hope it's going well.

Boil complete
Now to start the chill

Nice one Collie. Glad it's worked out well.