BIAB Pot - Experienced Advice Required

[WalesAles]

I'm slightly happier with the dunking method, which is not dissimilar to batch sparging and seems a reasonable compromise. But as always with home brewing, its all personal choice and whatever floats your boat.

Keveighteighteight,
Thanks for the reply.
I`m happy with PhilBs` method.
You are quite right about personal choice. My choice now is to have a pint of `Trampagne` then go to bed!

WA

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

The sparge is useful in some contexts. It can boost the efficiency in big beers or allow you to go for larger volumes than your kettle will allow.

[Uncle Albert]

Very good answer Kev, useful info. Looking forward to having a go at a Belgian wheat in a few months - any idiot proof recipes reccommended?

[alexlark]

I also use the 'dunk' method for my 33L pot. I get as much water as possible into the pot for the mash and then dunk sparge with the rest. Once the bag is removed there's plenty of room for the extra liquid. On the last brew the sparge was 4L and my efficiency was around 75%.

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Yeah I always dunk sparge too. Let's me get decent efficiency and gets bigger volume out of the kettle

[Uncle Albert]

Do many people mashout to 77C when doing BIAB? Or is dunk sparge better?

[Kev888]

Theres a recent thread on mashing out here. Thats not to say no-one does it, as I know some do, but with BIAB especially there is very little to gain and some danger if you overshoot.

It doesn't really matter whether you then sparge or not, so for me thats a separate issue. I know some (usually in the states) seem to believe mashing out somehow replaces sparging, or that it is needed if you don't sparge, but IMO thats mostly a myth rather than a real-world effect with our batch sizes.