cinderbike
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Hey everyone. I am on my fourth BIAB batch. I've been working on getting efficiency up and not sure exactly what I've been doing right/wrong.
On my first two batches, I got pretty bad efficiency, around 60%.
I realized afterwards I wasn't stirring the mash well enough and had doughballs, and also wasn't crushing my grain as fine as I've read you should with BIAB.
The 3rd batch I got 68% efficiency. It was a medium gravity (1.060 recipe).
Now on this most recent batch, I had a high-gravity (1.1) beer that ended up at 1.093, 7 points off, which if I calculated correctly gave me 71% efficiency.
Am I doing okay, or is there something wrong here?
On my first two batches, I got pretty bad efficiency, around 60%.
I realized afterwards I wasn't stirring the mash well enough and had doughballs, and also wasn't crushing my grain as fine as I've read you should with BIAB.
The 3rd batch I got 68% efficiency. It was a medium gravity (1.060 recipe).
Now on this most recent batch, I had a high-gravity (1.1) beer that ended up at 1.093, 7 points off, which if I calculated correctly gave me 71% efficiency.
Am I doing okay, or is there something wrong here?