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Ordered! Thanks for the tip.

For the yeast! haha. This was a takeaway from the discussion I had with the other brewers at my LHSS. The consensus seemed to be "Distilled water has nothing in it for the yeast (like spring water would), so if you're building up your profile from distilled water, make sure you use yeast...

Makes sense. I'm trying to build up this water profile from base of distilled water though, not tap.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of brewing is getting a deep understanding of what, on the surface, seem like simple things: grain, water, hops, and yeast. After all, what could be so complicated about yeast? They sell it in bulk at the grocery store. Then years later, you find yourself on one...

I know this thread is 5 years old now but that gave me a good hearty laugh this morning. Malticulous, wherever you are, I salute you. The least helpful comments I've ever seen on homebrewtalk.com. haha

You know what... that's it. Holy jeebus. I didn't know "brewhouse" and "mash" efficiency were 2 different things. After I pop my recipe into the calculator and put in my gravity reading I took from the fermentor (which was 1.06... just before pitching the yeast), the results show that I'm...

The brewhouse efficiency was set to 75%. I after gathering a pre-boil gravity reading on 7.5 gallons, the calculator gave me my brewhouse efficiency. I adjusted the recipe to read 86% BHE to reflect what actually happened. And with a BHE of 86%, it says I should have been at 1.072 OG, when in...

Correct. 1.072 was what the recipe builder predicted.

Great thought. However, I distinctly remember giving the wort a stir before dipping my spoon in and getting a couple drops. That doesn't mean it wasn't totally unstratified though. So far, I think this is the most likely culprit.

I took the pre-boil wort gravity using a refractometer. The refractometer was calibrated today and when I took the OG reading (post boil) I double checked it with a standard hydrometer and it was right on. So, unless refractometers are no good for pre-boil wort measurements, I can't see why...

hmm. So, maybe the recipe builder on brewersfriend.com is off then. That would be a shame. I can't imagine I'm the first person to discover a major bug like that! Also, I boiled down to about 6 gallons. After cooling for about an hour and then leaving behind a half gallon of hops (there was a...

1.052 The recipe said I was supposed to be at 1.05 Any ideas? How could the OG be so far off after boiling, cooling, and then taking a reading right before pitching the yeast and letting it ferment?

I also just did an iodine color test on the post-boil wort (does that work after the boil?) I didn't see any color change (reaction to starch.)

All the numbers are there in the recipe: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/59350/hopstand-ipa-v2-citra-amarillo The preboil volume was 7.5gal and after a 60 minute boil, cooldown, and filter, I ended up with 5.2gal in the fermentor. No excess wort or water top off. The...

I took a refractometer reading, converted it to an OG reading (using this) and then popped the OG and the recipe into this to get the brewhouse efficiency. Using that calculator, I've got over 80% before, although I think 86% is a record for me. Wasn't expecting to see a post-boil OG lower...

Wondering if you guys can help me with something. I brewed this recipe: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/59350/hopstand-ipa-v2-citra-amarillo ... everything went perfect. I hit 86% efficiency, hit my mash temp to the degree, and had the correct starting and finishing volumes...

Well that was sad.

Really!? Nada? :-(

Tell me what you think! Chinook for clean bittering alphas, cascade for hop body and amarillo for citrus'y orange'y aroma. Brew Method: All Grain Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5.2 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 7.2 gallons Efficiency: 75% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity...

When suddenly he