Is the wort pressed out of the bag while squeezing the same gravity as the wort already in the pot?
I'm trying to understand my SG measurements today, which were 1.030 at the end of the mash (with the bag and grain still in the pot) and 1.040 after I'd removed and squeezed the bag. (The wort seemed to taste sweeter, too, though it's hard to be sure.) Refractometer both times, on cooled wort.
If the squeezed-out wort actually was higher gravity, I'd think this would cause consistency problems, since the overall SG would depend on how hard one squeezed the bag. (And, as it happens, I do have consistency problems.)
Is this crazy? Am I crazy?
I'm trying to understand my SG measurements today, which were 1.030 at the end of the mash (with the bag and grain still in the pot) and 1.040 after I'd removed and squeezed the bag. (The wort seemed to taste sweeter, too, though it's hard to be sure.) Refractometer both times, on cooled wort.
If the squeezed-out wort actually was higher gravity, I'd think this would cause consistency problems, since the overall SG would depend on how hard one squeezed the bag. (And, as it happens, I do have consistency problems.)
Is this crazy? Am I crazy?