99blackgt
Well-Known Member
I made a few batches last night. Very new to all grain.
I made the first, with about 15.5# of grain. Got about 4.5 gallons of wort out of it, and ended up boiling to 4 gallons, then added water and got a SG of 1.052.
Thought that was normal (used to partial mash with some extracts)
Then i made one last night. used about 17.5# of grain. Pulled about 5.5 gallons off of it, and decided to take the gravity of the last of the runoff. 1.035? wow. I remember reading that you can use the wort comming off untill you hit 1.01 or so. So i pulled about another 2 gallons off of the grain, (sparaging) and got 1.03 at the end of that. At this point i've got two burners (6gal) filled up to my normal point (about 4 gal). I was supprised i could get that much wort out of this grain!
To make a long story short. I boiled for a long time, got it down to 6 gallons, at that time i was tired, and just threw it in my carboy (almost to the top) SG on this was 1.065.
Now the grain bill wasn't THAT much different from the first to the second, so now i'm wondering if i just did it wrong the first few times. Are you really suppoesed to pull 8+ gallons off that grain and try to boil it down to 5 gallons to make a good gravity beer? Or am i just using too much grain?
Thanks in advance guys
I made the first, with about 15.5# of grain. Got about 4.5 gallons of wort out of it, and ended up boiling to 4 gallons, then added water and got a SG of 1.052.
Thought that was normal (used to partial mash with some extracts)
Then i made one last night. used about 17.5# of grain. Pulled about 5.5 gallons off of it, and decided to take the gravity of the last of the runoff. 1.035? wow. I remember reading that you can use the wort comming off untill you hit 1.01 or so. So i pulled about another 2 gallons off of the grain, (sparaging) and got 1.03 at the end of that. At this point i've got two burners (6gal) filled up to my normal point (about 4 gal). I was supprised i could get that much wort out of this grain!
To make a long story short. I boiled for a long time, got it down to 6 gallons, at that time i was tired, and just threw it in my carboy (almost to the top) SG on this was 1.065.
Now the grain bill wasn't THAT much different from the first to the second, so now i'm wondering if i just did it wrong the first few times. Are you really suppoesed to pull 8+ gallons off that grain and try to boil it down to 5 gallons to make a good gravity beer? Or am i just using too much grain?
Thanks in advance guys