I recently made the leap after several years of extract brewing to all grain brewing. Several folks on this board said it would happen...they were right...
Anyway, to make things easier, I bought all grain kits (unmilled) to start with.
I was excited to find the OG of my Northern Brewer Dead ringer matched exactly the OG expressed on the kit instructions- 1.064. I was a little less excited that the brewhouse calculator showed this as 72% efficiency. The fermentables were 11 pounds domestic 2-row and 1 pound caramel 40L. I do Bobby M's no mash out, double batch sparge method.
Question - Is 72% brewhouse what normal expected OGs are calculated at? Am I golden or do I need to look deeper into my method to try to improve things? I figure I can't be off too bad if I'm hitting the expected OG and everything tastes good.
Its just that some people post they are getting >80% efficiency and it makes me wonder......
Thanks! Pez.
Anyway, to make things easier, I bought all grain kits (unmilled) to start with.
I was excited to find the OG of my Northern Brewer Dead ringer matched exactly the OG expressed on the kit instructions- 1.064. I was a little less excited that the brewhouse calculator showed this as 72% efficiency. The fermentables were 11 pounds domestic 2-row and 1 pound caramel 40L. I do Bobby M's no mash out, double batch sparge method.
Question - Is 72% brewhouse what normal expected OGs are calculated at? Am I golden or do I need to look deeper into my method to try to improve things? I figure I can't be off too bad if I'm hitting the expected OG and everything tastes good.
Its just that some people post they are getting >80% efficiency and it makes me wonder......
Thanks! Pez.