brewmasterpa
Well-Known Member
Let's start by saying that I have been brewing for about 1.5 years and I consider myself to be still in the very early learning stage. Today I brewed an american pilsner and my efficiency ended up being 105% Is that possible???
It was a 10 gallon batch, used 16.75 lbs of grain (16 lbs pilsner malt, .75 lbs cara pils) mashed at 156 F for 90 minutes and sparged with 8 gallons of water at 175 F. My mash thickness was 1.5/1. My last few brews, I have crushed my own grains and seen my efficiency numbers higher than they had been when the brew supply shop crushed my grains, but not like this. I'm wondering if I made a mistake. I have checked and rechecked my numbers. I checked to make sure my hydrometer is accurate, and I doubled checked my original gravity (1.059). Does anybody have any ideas? I think I included all the information needed to make a proper evaluation. My problem is that I was trying to brew a light, easy drinking beer for the spring/summer, and now I have a 7.3% abv monster and I don't want to duplicate this next time, and I also don't want to take a chance adjusting it and having it turn out that I made a mistake and now I have 10 gallons of fizzy yellow water. HELP!!
It was a 10 gallon batch, used 16.75 lbs of grain (16 lbs pilsner malt, .75 lbs cara pils) mashed at 156 F for 90 minutes and sparged with 8 gallons of water at 175 F. My mash thickness was 1.5/1. My last few brews, I have crushed my own grains and seen my efficiency numbers higher than they had been when the brew supply shop crushed my grains, but not like this. I'm wondering if I made a mistake. I have checked and rechecked my numbers. I checked to make sure my hydrometer is accurate, and I doubled checked my original gravity (1.059). Does anybody have any ideas? I think I included all the information needed to make a proper evaluation. My problem is that I was trying to brew a light, easy drinking beer for the spring/summer, and now I have a 7.3% abv monster and I don't want to duplicate this next time, and I also don't want to take a chance adjusting it and having it turn out that I made a mistake and now I have 10 gallons of fizzy yellow water. HELP!!