Hey guys. Not sure what the hell is going wrong. Below is my recipe and techniques used. Please help me and give me some ideas on why I am so low on gravity.
Grains -
2.5 lb American 2 row
.5 lb caramel malt
Extract
5 lbs liquid extract
Batch size
5.25 gallons
Hops to flavor (doesn't matter for this discussion)
Technique - I have an igloo cooler with copper manifold set up as my MLT. I mashed w/ 1 gallon of water @ 152 for 60 minutes.
Drained and recirculated the 1 gallon. Then did two batch sparges of 1 gallon each at 170 with 5 minutes of rest before I started draining.
I resulted w/ 2.75 gallons with a gravity of 1.020. Not very efficient, but not incredibly terrible for my first try with this MLT. Any ideas on how I can get this efficiency up?
Okay. So on to the boil. I got it all boiling, added hops and 5lbs of liquid extract.
After boil I used my immersion chiller and got it down to 75 in about twelve minutes. I cycloned and syphoned off the wort. Topped off with water to 5.25, aerated, took a gravity reading, and pitched.
The gravity reading came out at a pathetic 1.030. Shouldn't the LE alone get that? Where the hell are my sugars going?
Thanks!
Austin
Total run off from the grains was
Grains -
2.5 lb American 2 row
.5 lb caramel malt
Extract
5 lbs liquid extract
Batch size
5.25 gallons
Hops to flavor (doesn't matter for this discussion)
Technique - I have an igloo cooler with copper manifold set up as my MLT. I mashed w/ 1 gallon of water @ 152 for 60 minutes.
Drained and recirculated the 1 gallon. Then did two batch sparges of 1 gallon each at 170 with 5 minutes of rest before I started draining.
I resulted w/ 2.75 gallons with a gravity of 1.020. Not very efficient, but not incredibly terrible for my first try with this MLT. Any ideas on how I can get this efficiency up?
Okay. So on to the boil. I got it all boiling, added hops and 5lbs of liquid extract.
After boil I used my immersion chiller and got it down to 75 in about twelve minutes. I cycloned and syphoned off the wort. Topped off with water to 5.25, aerated, took a gravity reading, and pitched.
The gravity reading came out at a pathetic 1.030. Shouldn't the LE alone get that? Where the hell are my sugars going?
Thanks!
Austin
Total run off from the grains was