PolarisSnT
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This should be impossible because the volume in the BK had decreased and all that is lost is water and the resulting solution should be higher in concentration.
At the end of my sparging I took a gravity reading (pre boil) and came up with 1.025 @150*F = 1.044 at 70*F
Boil for 1hr and chilled to 70*F and grabbed a reading before pitching the yeast. The hydrometer read 1.040.
Tried doing some research and it seems that layering in the BK could have caused me to take a reading of the higher gravity wort that was sitting on the bottom near my drain valve causing a falsely high pre-boil gravity.
Google returned this: http://***********/stories/wizard/a.../716-gravity-a-brewhouse-efficiency-mr-wizard
Thoughts?
At the end of my sparging I took a gravity reading (pre boil) and came up with 1.025 @150*F = 1.044 at 70*F
Boil for 1hr and chilled to 70*F and grabbed a reading before pitching the yeast. The hydrometer read 1.040.
Tried doing some research and it seems that layering in the BK could have caused me to take a reading of the higher gravity wort that was sitting on the bottom near my drain valve causing a falsely high pre-boil gravity.
Google returned this: http://***********/stories/wizard/a.../716-gravity-a-brewhouse-efficiency-mr-wizard
Thoughts?