My BIAB bag hangs from a pulley suspended over the pot by a frame that rests on the edge of the pot, so when I pull it out, I just let it hang and drain while the wort comes to a boil, and by the time I squeeze, it's cool enough to gingerly squeeze by twisting the sack and wringing out the grains.
My BIAB bag hangs from a pulley suspended over the pot by a frame that rests on the edge of the pot, so when I pull it out, I just let it hang and drain while the wort comes to a boil, and by the time I squeeze, it's cool enough to gingerly squeeze by twisting the sack and wringing out the grains.
+1 hang and wring method. I brew in the basement (induction burner) and have a pulley over my brew bench. Very easy to just hold on the top of the bag and spin it both directions. Gets a little hot on the hand, but not bad.
I do pretty much the same thing. I brew in my garage and the bag is hoisted/suspended by an eye bolt in a ceiling rafter. I employ a small cold water sparge, which helps with sugar extraction and provides the added benefit of cooling the grains enough to make squeezing by hand simple, quick, and painless.
My BIAB bag hangs from a pulley suspended over the pot by a frame that rests on the edge of the pot, so when I pull it out, I just let it hang and drain while the wort comes to a boil, and by the time I squeeze, it's cool enough to gingerly squeeze by twisting the sack and wringing out the grains.
Those of you with the BIAB-basket, are they generally strong enough to apply force downwards on the grain to help drain/squeeze the wort out? I use as much pressure/force as possible on my bag, but I am wondering if the mesh/basket can also withstand the same force?
Bag hangs above pot, let gravity do its thing and then put on my BBQ pork pull'en gloves and squeeze it till the cows come home.
Am I one of lazy few that just prefers to let the bag drain for 20 -30 minutes and give it a light squeeze to get the last half pint?
Gravity works well and is free....try it, you may be pleasantly surprised.
Per my refractometer I get an extra 12% or so efficiency from the squeezing, but right now it's messy. I like the bucket idea because I'm good at sitting on things.
I did hang and drain for my first few BIABs, but after letting it drain, then putting it aside for the boil, I could see, after a couple of hours, 2 or 3 more pints of wort in the bottom of the dump bucket, and if I squeezed the now-cold bag, could get, from most average grain bills, a gallon more. So I became a squeezer (more of a hang and twist, but still...)Am I one of lazy few that just prefers to let the bag drain for 20 -30 minutes and give it a light squeeze to get the last half pint?
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