BUT a lucky idiot! Can someone please explain this to me?
I made the centenniel blond recipe today. Used my burner and keggle and barley crusher and did everything outside for the first time. I did the test boil earlier today I posted about and in a half hour I boiled off 1.25 gallons ( approximate ) The idiot part is a boiled with the burner wide open and it would have boiled much lower and conserved gas. SO 1.25 gallons in a half hour is 2.5 gallons in an hour. The recipe calls for 5.5 gallons in the fermentor. SO I started with 8 gallons in the boil pot.....ANYWAY I ended up with 6.5 gallons in the fermentor and checked the OG and it was HIGHER than the recipe calls for OR the three prior batches of this same recipe I made. I know my efficiency could be higher this way but THAT much difference? A 5.5 gallon batch is estimated at 1.039...I got 6.5 ( again approximately) and 1.045!
I made the centenniel blond recipe today. Used my burner and keggle and barley crusher and did everything outside for the first time. I did the test boil earlier today I posted about and in a half hour I boiled off 1.25 gallons ( approximate ) The idiot part is a boiled with the burner wide open and it would have boiled much lower and conserved gas. SO 1.25 gallons in a half hour is 2.5 gallons in an hour. The recipe calls for 5.5 gallons in the fermentor. SO I started with 8 gallons in the boil pot.....ANYWAY I ended up with 6.5 gallons in the fermentor and checked the OG and it was HIGHER than the recipe calls for OR the three prior batches of this same recipe I made. I know my efficiency could be higher this way but THAT much difference? A 5.5 gallon batch is estimated at 1.039...I got 6.5 ( again approximately) and 1.045!