Baron von BeeGee
Beer Bully
Since I started crushing my own grains and went to my new coolertun I've been getting between 78-83% efficiency with barley-based recipes (I'm not sure which was the important factor). They might include 5-7% wheat.
However, with wheat-based recipes (50-60% wheat) I can't get beyond the low 70's on the same system? Does anybody else observe this phenomenon? I have had slow runoffs with wheat, but never a stuck my new tun. I test for conversion to make sure it is complete. Is wheat just inherently more difficult to lauter resulting in my lower efficiency, or should barley and wheat-based grists result in similar efficiencies?
I can live with 70% for wheat beers, but if I've got a problem with my process I'd like to correct it.
However, with wheat-based recipes (50-60% wheat) I can't get beyond the low 70's on the same system? Does anybody else observe this phenomenon? I have had slow runoffs with wheat, but never a stuck my new tun. I test for conversion to make sure it is complete. Is wheat just inherently more difficult to lauter resulting in my lower efficiency, or should barley and wheat-based grists result in similar efficiencies?
I can live with 70% for wheat beers, but if I've got a problem with my process I'd like to correct it.