Sorry about the slow reply Thirsty - I have been under the pump
My major worry at the moment is when I can brew next. It's a long story. I was planning to brew over the Xmas break but now I have to do a major job
I'm happy to photograph my pre-boil wort but I don't know how I can stir up a pre-boil wort any better than it is already stirred up by a near boil???
I also have no photographic skills so will probably let everyone down. Furthermore...
Pics of very clear BIAB wort can already be seen in the main BIAB thread though these could well have been before your time? I think though, from memory, that there would also be more recent pics? They are there but finding them will require a lot of searching/reading. If you can't find them there, I have posted one or two somewhere here already so search posts under my name.
What might also be interesting is if any non-BIAB brewers already have pics of their pre-boil clear wort after five minutes settling etc.
I doubt we would see any difference but what I doubt more is that we will ever see enough brewers willing to post such pics under the same circumstances for it to be in any way educational.
So, me posting one pic on one brew under no set standards (let alone recipe) is a totally pointless and ridiculous exercise. It will not prove a thing.
However, if say 20 brewers, BIAB and traditional, are willing to post their pics and we give them a standard, then we may have something.
If there is a difference, as you know, it really doesn't matter. What matters is the quality of the final beer. For now, no one has gone to any reasonable extent in determining if BIAB is better or worse than traditional.
The only time I have seen this was before your time. A search for "triangular" posts made under my name on this forum will give you that experiment and the result.
It favoured BIAB.
Dan, you are a bit of a scientist, so I think you'd agree that us home brewers are not great scientists. Personally, I am shocked by the myths that get perpetuated on a daily basis amongst our community. Personally, I don't like to encourage them.
I also don't want to spend my whole life refuting these myths. It's a dilemma.
I suppose anyone
really interested in finding the truth should do some serious researching.
What else can they do?