Magnus314
Well-Known Member
Good data will help each person decide for themselves what is best for their situation.
Let's avoid trying to convince others that ours is the "best" way, but rather collect/report data, and let people decide for themselves. There is no right or wrong answer here.
Brew on
I totally agree with this. A also though this thread was surprisingly civil, probably cuz we're all BIAB'ers (or at least reading in the BIAB part of the forum).
One interesting thing to check: If you squeeze the bag, leave it hang after anyway, even if it's just over a bucket or something so you can see how much it drips. If it's zero, your recovery has been great, and squeezing is saving you time with no loss. If it's any, hanging would recover more, but probably take longer, which may or may not matter to you.
With the "let it hang" method there are still some intermittent drips even after a pretty long time. They don't add up to much, volume wise, but it's easy to just let it drip into a pitcher or a bucket or whatever and pour it into the boil.
On night brews where I didn't dump the bag until the next morning, there was a cup or so of drips on the ground and the top half of the grain in the bag was so dry it was crunchy. So it'll get pretty dry.
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