senorfartman

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I mean it seems to flow pretty well. I use a 3/8" tube that I cut notches into and have that placed inside of 2 SS mesh bags. I haven't really seen any signs of a stuck sparge but I can't really think of anything else that it'd be.

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You should have been able to see that it got stuck being that there was about 3 gallons still in there.
You really need to wright down and pay attention to what goes in and what comes out. Know what your preboil "should" be and what it really is.
The only way you're going to figure this out is to brew again and watch it very closly.

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Wait I think I've figure out what I've been doing wrong and it's so simple.

When I read batch size in the promash recipes, I took that as for what's going into the fermenter i.e. 10 gallon batch size meant 10 gallons of wort in the fermenter.

Unless this theory is wrong also, technically what I was doing was correct. When I halved the batch size to 5, I was getting 5 gallons of wort but I boiled off 1.5 gallons of it which would explain my low volume.

Am I correct on this? Apparently I'm still at the noob stage

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Bottled: Edwort's Pale Ale
Bottled: Dark Chocolate Porter

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didn't see you mention your pre boil volume. that would tell you where it's going. if you have 9 galls pre boil and 3 after, then you're boiling it off. If you start with 5 galls and end up with 3, somethings funny with the MLT setup. Is there water left in the MLT after you sparge? Mine has almost no liquid in it after I finish sparging.

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No batch size is what goes into the fermenter.

Ok here is what you have done.
You used 10.75 ponds of grain, mashed with 3.5 gal, sparged with 6 gal for a total of 9.5 gal used. Going with the absorption rate of .1 gal per pound you will lose just over 1 gal to the grain. This (if the tun drains 100%) gives you 8.5 gal into the kettle.
Depending on what size the kettle is this should have been easy to see if you were even close to that or not.
You are missing something somewhere and until you figure it out we can't help you.
It comes down to "know your equipment and system". Even if this was your first brew you ever did you should know what you are putting in and what you are getting out.

So, the way I see it is.
1. you had a stuck sparge.
2 you messed up your count thus you did not use 9.5 gal
3. you have one hell of a burner and are getting like 60% boil-off rate (very unlikely)

Those are the only things I can think of that it could be. Either one or a combo of all three.


I repeat... "know your equipment and system".

Figure out and mark the kettle for gallons.

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