Omegaman13
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So I've been getting about 50-60% efficiency on a few brews lately. I need some help troubleshooting the problem.
I've got:
2 10 Gallon rubbermaids, one is just an HLT and the other is false bottomed.
I fly sparge.
The grains are not crushed by me, but rather my home brew store. I do not know if it being done correctly.
I have missed my mash before on all of my brews, but only by 2 degrees at most.
I raised my sparge water to 175/180 to try to help get better numbers. It help a little but not much.
My usual brewing schedule includes:
Raising water to mash temp and getting 1.3-5 qts per pound of grain
Mashing at rest temp for 60 minutes
Heating sparge water
Setting up sparge system
rinse grains with 1 inch of water over the grain bed at all times.
Balance valves and then wait until I hit my preboil volume. Usually like to make it go as slow as I possibly can. I usually take an hour to sparge.
take pot and boil for 60 while adding anything that is required.
I did Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde and got a 1.21 as my preboil gravity. I skimmed off the top and the wort was at about 140. Don't know if that is the right way of doing it.
I've got:
2 10 Gallon rubbermaids, one is just an HLT and the other is false bottomed.
I fly sparge.
The grains are not crushed by me, but rather my home brew store. I do not know if it being done correctly.
I have missed my mash before on all of my brews, but only by 2 degrees at most.
I raised my sparge water to 175/180 to try to help get better numbers. It help a little but not much.
My usual brewing schedule includes:
Raising water to mash temp and getting 1.3-5 qts per pound of grain
Mashing at rest temp for 60 minutes
Heating sparge water
Setting up sparge system
rinse grains with 1 inch of water over the grain bed at all times.
Balance valves and then wait until I hit my preboil volume. Usually like to make it go as slow as I possibly can. I usually take an hour to sparge.
take pot and boil for 60 while adding anything that is required.
I did Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde and got a 1.21 as my preboil gravity. I skimmed off the top and the wort was at about 140. Don't know if that is the right way of doing it.