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• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-05-2013 at 02:52 AM
  Did you make sure to stir when you sparged? With that much grain, you can get some pretty good
  compaction of the grains during your mash drain, and if you don't break them up you end up
  leaving a ton ...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-05-2013 at 02:50 AM
  Efficiency is always going to take a kit on high gravity beers, the trick is figuring it out
  for your system so you can plan accordingly. What was your intended batch volume?Was shooting
  for about 5.5...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-05-2013 at 01:01 AM
  The calculator is giving that in the second scenario. But really it's just very simply V1 x G1
  = V2 x G2 where V is volume, G is gravity in points.In your case you had 9 gallons of 1.054:9 x
  54 = 486....

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 11:41 PM
  Did you mill your own grain, or did the LHBS do it for you? First thing I would look at is your
  crush.The homebrew store.. They are usually pretty good. I usually dont have any problems with
  normal re...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 11:37 PM
  Would be cool if that calculator also gave you expected gravity after boil..

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 11:36 PM
  I used this calculator. I used the second calculator on the page and used the following
  values:Wort Volume: 9 GALCurrent Gravity: 1.054Desired Volume: 5 GALBoiling down to a volume
  absolutely does inc...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 02:24 AM
  Also this has me wondering. Do you mean that during the sparge you put 3 gallons in and 3
  gallons out? That makes sense since you should get no absorbtion loss from the sparge since the
  grain is alrea...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 02:15 AM
  I'm not quite following:Unless I am misunderstanding something, what is the difference? Preboil
  vs right after the mash are the same readings in my book. Now, if you collected 9 gallons of
  1.054 wort,...

• Posted in thread: Low gravity with 20lbs of grain on 03-04-2013 at 12:58 AM
  My brother and I brewed a Barley Wine last night and we got horrible results with our mash and
  I was wondering if anyone had some insight as to how I can modify my process. This has happened
  twice now...

• Posted in thread: Add more yeast or just leave it?? on 12-08-2012 at 04:53 PM
  Hey everyone! Ok, so I wanted some feedback about what I should do with this beer. I made a
  Irish Red that I wanted to be strong and hoppy so I made a grain bill that got me OG of 1076. I
  pitched 2 vi...