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Well if its between those two things then thats it. I just examined my grains again and it doesnt look like the crush but i could be wrong. In one hand full of grain i found one grain that was only cracked but it was still split even though it was whole. I do know i didnt have any clumps. I...

Mash tun is a 52 qt rectangular cooler. I am fairly certain that I removed all the clumps of grain, as i didnt find any dry spots in my mash. water to grain ratio was about 1.2 , 6 gallons to 19 lbs of grain. Mashed for an hour. I did get a stuck mash as i am draining with a pvc manifold. I...

I dont think it was all that but that might have played a hand. I would have needed 3 extra gallons to go as low as i did.

I am batch sparging and on this particular time i put a bit to much water in and had extra rinse water in the mash tun. Would that cause a massive efficiency drop.

The crush should be ok. Ive been using the same mill at the supply store for a while and ive not had a problem, Unless over crushing causes a big issue with loss of sugars. The numbers i have came from pro-mash. Ive been using that program for a long time and the SG numbers I have used have...

So I just finished brewing what was supposed to be a Double IPA and I hit a wall when i saw my original gravity atr 1.056 and i was aiming for 1.108. I have a had some issues in the past with other beers but not nearly this bad. I am fairly new to all grain brewing but i have had 2...