{"id":39,"date":"2013-11-27T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2021-03-07T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:16:59","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yes,
Yes, I’m drinking Schlitz.\u00a0 It was a gift!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My name is Derrick and I started home brewing in the mid 90’s with my brother-in-law Chris.\u00a0 My first experience with brewing was visiting my sister in NY where Chris had a batch of brew in a glass carboy fermenting in a very small apartment they lived in.<\/p>\n

Chris liked to experiment, and had decided to add some grits to his boil and didn’t strain the wort before pouring it into his fermenter.\u00a0 Well his small blow-off tube got blocked by the grits and we woke up to an explosion of beer everywhere!\u00a0 It got into every cupboard, drawer and surface; even the microwave.\u00a0 They were literally finding beer in that small kitchen for weeks.\u00a0 Needless to say, I always use a blow-off tube and one that won’t get plugged.<\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way I stopped brewing altogether after I got tired of having five gallons of beer that I either really didn’t like, or didn’t like enough to have five gallons of.\u00a0 In June of 2011 I received a Groupon from my niece and nephew to go with Chris ( who also fell out of the home brewing craze) to a new home brew supply that had recently opened in the area.<\/p>\n

That’s all it took and I was hooked again, even after completely screwing-up my first batch of beer by forgetting to have any hops on hand.\u00a0 Chris never lets me live that down.\u00a0 So,\u00a0 I decided that if I was going to spend the time and money to do this, I’d better get serious.\u00a0 I began to brew more often and pretty quickly, my beer got much better.<\/p>\n

Since that time I decided to really embrace the hobby by building a kegerator, brew kettle, and kegging my own beer.\u00a0 My friends and family actually seem to genuinely enjoy trying my latest brew and although we always have plenty of great microbrews on hand from Michigan’s finest, people always seem to enjoy a few pints from “Parkman Brewery,” as we call it.<\/p>\n

After really seeing the difference in quality by just adding specialty grains to a batch of wort, I realized that I’d like to complicate my life just a little more.\u00a0 I didn’t really have the space for a full all-grain set-up, nor did I want to clean any more than I already do.\u00a0 So I had heard about “brew-in-a-bag” or BIAB for short and thought that may be just what I was looking for.\u00a0 I do have a lot of hobbies and interests so I wanted to step-up my brewing, but didn’t really have the time for the\u00a0 traditional all-grain method. \u00a0 This seemed perfect – and it was.<\/p>\n

Tracking your brews is very important in home brewing if you’re ever going to brew with any consistency.\u00a0 With that in mind, I decided I would basically video record<\/p>\n

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Hey, We’re in Brew Your Own Magazine!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

most everything that I did, especially as it pertained to BIAB.\u00a0 That’s where this site evolved.\u00a0 It’s basically a log of my brew sessions, equipment builds, and methods that I learned, figured out, or just screwed-up.<\/p>\n

I’ve since written a step-by-step featured article for Brew Your Own<\/em><\/a> magazine’s March\/April 2014<\/a> edition on Brew in a Bag.\u00a0 I can’t tell you how honored I was to be able to write that article and share what I’ve learned so far.<\/p>\n

I don’t claim to be any sort of expert in BIAB brewing or the home brew process, but I’m known to brew some pretty decent beer from time-to-time and I really enjoy sharing it with family and friends.\u00a0 Home brewing can be so forgiving, and as long as you keep things clean and sanitized, it really is pretty hard to screw-up.\u00a0 Even if you forget the hops!<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 Thanks to my niece Stephanie<\/a> for helping me get this site off the ground.\u00a0 If it wasn’t for her assistance, I never would have gotten this done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Derrick and I started home brewing in the mid 90’s with my brother-in-law Chris.\u00a0 My first experience with brewing was visiting my sister in NY where Chris had a batch of brew in a glass carboy fermenting in a very small apartment they lived in. Chris liked to experiment, and had decided … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biabbrewing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}