nyer
Well-Known Member
I have been struggling with low amounts of wort going into the fermenter. I never get 5 gallons. I use a kettle and turkey fryer burner to boil in and I have always used generic software online to calculate my mash temps. and water amounts. I also left the boil off rate at 10 percent in the formula. I just tried an experiment by boiling 5 gallons of water for 60 minutes. I turned the burner down pretty low and had a good boil. When it was over I only had 2 1/2 gallons left. I don't get it how can I possibly lose 50%? I'm doing an 11 1/2 gallon batch of BM cream of 3 crops tomorrow and I really want to end up with 2 full kegs. I am thinking I'm boiling too hard but the flame was turned down quite a bit.