matthewjamesstone
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Hello all,
I just attempted my first all grain (and likewise, this is my first post).
I was doing an English Pale Ale, and it called for 9 lbs of grain...
We got our water up to around 165, and mashed for an hour (the water temp settled to about 156). We used roughly 5.5 gal of water, which may be slightly high...
Drained slowly and got our sparge water up to about 160. Sparging took about half an hour...
Checked the pre-boil gravity. 1.008. Yikes. Granted, the temp was about 150, but 1.008? The target was about 1.034.
Did our boil (hour long), cooled down the wort to 68 degrees. Took another reading. 1.010. Our target was 1.036...
My question is, what would account for such an enormously low OG?
Our water temp was in the ballpark, our volume was fairly close...I'm a bit frustrated and baffled by the results.
Anybody have any insight?
Thanks!
I just attempted my first all grain (and likewise, this is my first post).
I was doing an English Pale Ale, and it called for 9 lbs of grain...
We got our water up to around 165, and mashed for an hour (the water temp settled to about 156). We used roughly 5.5 gal of water, which may be slightly high...
Drained slowly and got our sparge water up to about 160. Sparging took about half an hour...
Checked the pre-boil gravity. 1.008. Yikes. Granted, the temp was about 150, but 1.008? The target was about 1.034.
Did our boil (hour long), cooled down the wort to 68 degrees. Took another reading. 1.010. Our target was 1.036...
My question is, what would account for such an enormously low OG?
Our water temp was in the ballpark, our volume was fairly close...I'm a bit frustrated and baffled by the results.
Anybody have any insight?
Thanks!