i've only had a little bucket once. so i saved the bucket and last night I opened the bags of extract and poured them into the bucket then poured the bucket into the wort. I was able to get more outta the bag this way instead of just pouring the bag over into the wort, but there was still some that I couldn't squeeze outta the bag. I had never thought about rinsing it out into the wort to get it all out. My main concern was over whether or not it would affect gravity readings/quality of beer by not getting "all" of it out. The reason I had the concern was my last batch before this one, I missed my target OG by 10 points and was trying to think of how that could have happened. I have decided since then though, that I missed it by either adding too much "top off water" to the fermenter, or by the wort and water not mixing well enough before I took the sample. Last night, though, brewing the IPA, my target gravity was 1.063 and I ended up with 1.072.
Anyone have any insight to why I'm missing my targets?