First all grain in the books!

[scottm1]

Hi all did my first all grain brew to day and I'm wandering how to calculate my efficiency . Any one know a good calculator ?

 

[Hammy71]

Congrats. I use BeerSmith to make my recipes, and it has an efficiency calculator built in. I use this online program for my strike/mash calculations and they have a calculator for efficiency too...

http://www.brewheads.com/efficiency.php

 

[doug293cz]

Hi all did my first all grain brew to day and I'm wandering how to calculate my efficiency . Any one know a good calculator ?

Which efficiency are you interested in knowing?

Conversion efficiency: Percentage of potential sugar in the grain actually generated by your mash process.

Lauter efficiency: Percentage of sugar generated in mash that makes it into the boil kettle.

Mash efficiency: Percentage of potential sugar in the grain that makes it into the boil kettle.

Brewhouse efficiency; Percentage of potential sugar in the grain that makes it into your fermenter.

To calculate all of these you need to know:

• Your grain bill
• Volume of strike water and first runnings specific gravity (SG)
• Pre-boil volume and pre-boil specific gravity (SG)
• Volume into fermenter and specific gravity into fermenter (Original Gravity - OG)

You can do the calculations yourself, or use on-line calculators or brewing software, but you need the same data whichever way you go.

Brew on