Draining Craftbrewer BIAB Bag

[Old Bloke]

My CB bag is fine. I burnt a hole in the first one I had. I bought a replacement again from them and haven't had a problem. Regards Chris

 

[Bribie G]

The original ones were hard to drain, but I believe CB switched to a different material years ago. Maybe you bought old stock at the time?.

IMHO the best "bag" is a circle of voile from Spotlight, hemmed, and hoisted with a hangman's noose. No seams, dead easy to empty out and clean.

ed: my two are coming up 7 years old and still look brand new.

 

[Rocker1986]

Mine's been fine too. I have two of them now because I tore a small hole in the first one so I use that for boiling hop flowers now. However, I haven't had any problems with that one or the new one draining. Mind you, my brew days are pretty relaxed, easy paced days so I also have no problem with stringing the bag up above the urn and leaving it sit there for 20 or 30 minutes to drain out while I go and have a beer or something. Only difference I've noticed is bigger grain bills take longer to drain. I do squeeze it before totally removing it and the grains are damp but not soaked in wort.

 

[1974Alby]

Couldn't fin my circle of voile on the weekend and so used my 'old' CB bag for the first time in years. I had forgotten why I stopped using it. I was brewing a double batch and the bag was practically water tight! Hoisting out 12kg of grain along with 30+L of water was not fun...after hanging it there for about 20 minutes I recke 3-4 litres had drained out....I ended up dumping the whole lot in a 50L Nally bin and scooping the wet grain into sieve over a bucket 1 litre at a time!! PITA :angry: . Have now thrown the bag in the bin and heading back to spotlight!

 

[Randai]

Yeah I have used probably a newer CB Bag, I think the only time I have had issues draining is when I had like 20% oats in a stout, but considering when I pulled it out it was like a cake of grains and oats.
It worked great for the last couple of years I have been using it, letting it drain for a few minutes on an oven rack over the pot.