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Good Morning, or Good Afternoon or Good Evening depending on where you are. So here's my question, I've read that when draining your Mash Tun with either first runnings or sparge runoff, to go slow (gallon every 10 minutes +/-), or to running off fast (Denny Conn I believe), how do you run off? I ask because it would certainly speed up the brewday if running off fast, but does that also run the risk of missing your numbers. In my opinion (all of 9 brews-worth of experience), if you are to run off slow, wouldn't you just Mash longer? Maybe for the Sparge a slow run off may make sense for contact time, but I'm not sure contact time is needed after a 60 minute Mash (example duration) as the starches should be converted during the Mash and all you are doing is getting the last bit of sugars out of the mash and meeting your preboil volume. Or is it a "it just depends on....?