Today was my first attempt all grain. I made a German pilsner. My grain bill was
7lbs German pilsner
1lb Vienna
8oz white wheat
1oz tettnang 60min
1oz tettnang 30min
1oz tettnang 10min
White labs wlp029 German ale/kolsch
Mashed at 160deg for 60min
Fly sparged at 170deg
I set up brewsmith at 72% efficiency. The preboil gravity was 1.044 at 6.5 gallons. Boiled 60min and ended up perfectly at 5 gallons. Cooled to 70 degrees and had a final gravity of 1.055!
So I messed around with the efficiency on brewsmith and came up with about 84%! Can this be right?
Overall it was a lot of fun and not near as hard as I thought it was going to be. Wish I would have started AG a long time ago.
Thanks for any input!
7lbs German pilsner
1lb Vienna
8oz white wheat
1oz tettnang 60min
1oz tettnang 30min
1oz tettnang 10min
White labs wlp029 German ale/kolsch
Mashed at 160deg for 60min
Fly sparged at 170deg
I set up brewsmith at 72% efficiency. The preboil gravity was 1.044 at 6.5 gallons. Boiled 60min and ended up perfectly at 5 gallons. Cooled to 70 degrees and had a final gravity of 1.055!
So I messed around with the efficiency on brewsmith and came up with about 84%! Can this be right?
Overall it was a lot of fun and not near as hard as I thought it was going to be. Wish I would have started AG a long time ago.
Thanks for any input!