BVilleggiante
Well-Known Member
The back story:
A couple of weeks ago I had not yet calibrated my BeerSmtih software, to the point where I was having to add water at the end of the boil because my system profile was off. I finally got around to calibrating my system and redoing my system profile so that at the end of the boil, my wort level is right where it should be and I can begin chilling...or so I thought.
The problem:
I brew on a MoreBeer system that has 15 gallon kettles so I can brew 10 gallon batches. When I redid my system profile I did things very precisly so I know my numbers are correct. Here's the problem. In order for my end of boil level to be correct, I have to start my pre-boil level at 14.73 gallons. My kettles are only 15 gallons and so I'm right to the top. I tried boiling at the slowest rate possible and no luck. I have all kinds of boil over which not only screws up my expected gravity (tonight for instance I was trying to hit 1.067 and ended up with 1.061 because of how much wort boiled over i.e. sugar loss). The boil over also throws off my numbers to where I'm still below where I should be on my post boil wort levels. My question is, what the hell do I do now? My initial thoughts...
1) Buy a bigger boil kettle ($$$)
2) Only transfer part of my wort to the boil kettle in the beginning and the rest to another pot. Start the boil and as my wort begins to boil off, add the wort I transfered to another pot slowly back in.
Please help!
A couple of weeks ago I had not yet calibrated my BeerSmtih software, to the point where I was having to add water at the end of the boil because my system profile was off. I finally got around to calibrating my system and redoing my system profile so that at the end of the boil, my wort level is right where it should be and I can begin chilling...or so I thought.
The problem:
I brew on a MoreBeer system that has 15 gallon kettles so I can brew 10 gallon batches. When I redid my system profile I did things very precisly so I know my numbers are correct. Here's the problem. In order for my end of boil level to be correct, I have to start my pre-boil level at 14.73 gallons. My kettles are only 15 gallons and so I'm right to the top. I tried boiling at the slowest rate possible and no luck. I have all kinds of boil over which not only screws up my expected gravity (tonight for instance I was trying to hit 1.067 and ended up with 1.061 because of how much wort boiled over i.e. sugar loss). The boil over also throws off my numbers to where I'm still below where I should be on my post boil wort levels. My question is, what the hell do I do now? My initial thoughts...
1) Buy a bigger boil kettle ($$$)
2) Only transfer part of my wort to the boil kettle in the beginning and the rest to another pot. Start the boil and as my wort begins to boil off, add the wort I transfered to another pot slowly back in.
Please help!