(sorry if the forum has this info...i failed to find it)
can't you use 3 bags in 1 kettle so it's easier to handle (lift out) ?
multiple bags
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GrowlingDogBeer
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Re: multiple bags
That would make sense. I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work as long as you have a way of keeping all the tops of the bags above wort level so no grain escapes.
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stan
Re: multiple bags
i also think you would have room with smaller bags to rest a long handled conical colander across the top of the kettle for draining the bags/grain without having to hold the weight. (room to pull the bags out beside the colander, that is)
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Re: multiple bags
Just strikes me as over complicating a simple proven process. It seems to me as being fiddly and adding to the clean up.
Still, everything is worth a try. Let us know how you get on.
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charliefarley
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Re: multiple bags
Good idea. I've stopped doing biab for 10g batches because it's too much to lift with one piece of voile, but with two or three it would be possible.
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danbrew
Re: multiple bags
Don't for get you can also run off the mash into an FV, empty the grains and then return the wort to the boiler for the boil... Which is another less lifting option... Though I suppose you have to lift the FV up to syphon/ pour/ tap back into the boiler...
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Greenbeast
Re: multiple bags
beerkiss wrote:Don't for get you can also run off the mash into an FV, empty the grains and then return the wort to the boiler for the boil... Which is another less lifting option... Though I suppose you have to lift the FV up to syphon/ pour/ tap back into the boiler...
...or pump it...
but i feel that perhaps the method is really then creeping away from the elegant simplicity it currently has