robdamanii
Well-Known Member
So today I brewed a pretty simple Wit, using 10.5 pounds of grain in my recipe. I have a 10 gallon MLT with a bazooka screen (which I think may be the problem) and I'm fly sparging (albeit with a crappy home made sparge arm.)
My recipe calls for a 6.5 gallon preboil volume. I reached the 6.5 gallons, and when I took a final runnings reading from the flow out of the MLT, it read 1.024 (corrected for temperature.) I ended up using an additional gallon of sparge water to get the runnings down to 1.012, and had to boil off an additional gallon during the boil.
My efficiency for this batch is 78% which is not great, but I can live with it. My OG came out at 1.054, which is a couple points above my target OG. My question is why am I needing more water than prescribed in my recipe calculations just to get the correct OG? Equipment set up or technique?
Thanks!
My recipe calls for a 6.5 gallon preboil volume. I reached the 6.5 gallons, and when I took a final runnings reading from the flow out of the MLT, it read 1.024 (corrected for temperature.) I ended up using an additional gallon of sparge water to get the runnings down to 1.012, and had to boil off an additional gallon during the boil.
My efficiency for this batch is 78% which is not great, but I can live with it. My OG came out at 1.054, which is a couple points above my target OG. My question is why am I needing more water than prescribed in my recipe calculations just to get the correct OG? Equipment set up or technique?
Thanks!