Most of the runnings drain quickly from the bag but there's always a little more that's been hard to capture without holding the bag until your arm cramps or you get around to installing an engine hoist in your living room...until now.

Using a 2.5G Rubber-Maid bucket wedged in the sink...my grain bag is 'suspended' at an elevated angle...which allows the last precious drops of wort to be drained and captured easily.





The 5G grain-bag is held in place by folding the top under the bucket.

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Note the thin wooden skewer on the counter with the black mark on it in the second brew-day image. When the skewer is inserted into the boil kettle...the black line marks the level of my 4G pre-boil volume.

There's no need to put 4Gs of water in the pot to figure out the 4G height. All you need is a ruler...a calculator...some basic algebra...and a home-brew.

Volume of your pot equals Pi times the squared-radius of the pot multiplied by its height.

V = Pi * r^2 * h

Pi = 22 / 7 = 3.14
Cubic inches per gallon: 231
Radius = 1/2 diameter of kettle (my diameter = 11.75")

V(gallons) = (Pi * radius^2 * h) / 231

Plug'n chug for h, the height (in inches) for 4 gallons

4 = 3.14 * 5.875^2 * h / 231
4 * 231 = 3.14 * 5.875^2 * h
924 = 108.4 * h
h = 924 / 108.3
h = 8.5"

Mark your stick 8.5" from the bottom to indicate the 4G level.

See...despite what you thought about it in HS...algebra really does come in handy in 'real life.'

Or for those of us who failed algebra just buy a pot that has your measurements marked...lol

I did almost the same thing to drain all the goodness out of mine. However I drained into my empty sparge pot with my wet grain sitting in a large strainer/colander.

I have to adimit that on some really cold winter brew days I have squeezed the living wort out of my hops sack.

Ouch!!!