Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:17 am
Knitting and brewing are mutually exclusive??? I was unaware !!
Pistol Patch is a top bloke who is the main man when it comes to BIAB on the AHB forum. He wrote the How to Guide, he did a lot of the testing and has been involved in probably most of the side by sides that have been done to make sure that we weren't kidding ourselves when we thought this method produced good beer.
He also consistently forgets to credit himself when he is handing out the praise to other people.
The fact that PP and I both support/promote BIAB but that we also disagree on a number of points, shows that this method is just like most of brewing. There is a fair bit of room for personal method, and that will effect your results. You have to read the arguments, decide on your process, and nail down what works for you. PP gets an increase in efficiency from batch sparged brews, whereas I either stay the same or drop a little. I mashout and think its important, PP doesnt... BFD, name 2 brewers who do everything exactly the same way.
Hopefully BIAB encourage a few US extract brewers to make the change to AG who otherwise wouldn't have, then there will be more data, more variation and no doubt more disagreement. That would be cool.
agISeasy... whether you decide to use a 3 vessel system or whether you choose to try BIAB. I like options and I think that providing them for people is a good thing. Even.... and I know this might be controversial.... but even for those people who choose to construct their own garments from woolen yarn using thin pointy sticks
TB
