speedie wrote:Removed, gibberish.
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Basically, yes, speedie. There are many innovators out there "reinventing the wheel" and sharing their findings via the wonder of the intertubes. In the case of BIAB, this enables Joe/Jane Average home brewer to make beer from grain with a just a few additions to his/her system and mininal expense. 2 urns is several hundred dollars! BIAB can be done with some voile fabric and a $20 stockpot from Big W - us meagre "standard" 19-23L batch brewers can do a concentrated partial boil in said pot, before we progress to the lofty heights of 400L batches. You're obviously a mad keen brewer and money is no object when it comes to your hobby, but that isn't the case for everyone, and as has been pointed out, BIAB can give fantastic results, There are many different ways to achieve results of equal quality.
If I was brewing in a garage with beams I could suspend a grain bag from, I'd probably be doing BIAB instead of the more traditional 3 (ish) vessel system I've got now, which just ended up making more sense for my circumstances. It certainly doesn't make me somehow more elite than BIAB brewer.
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