watergod
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Ok people help me out here if you can. I keep checking my mash efficiency and seem to only get about 62%. I read some threads recently about ways to raise it so on brew day yesterday I followed one of the suggestions and did a double crush of the grain.
I used 13 lbs of grain
Mashed at 152 for 60 minutes
Batch Sparged at 160 for about 10 minutes and stirred the crap out of it, rinsed the grains twice.
Got 6.5 gallons of wort with a pre boil gravity of 1.046.
Boiled for an hr down to 5.5 gallons with a gravity of 1.059.
My beersmith says mash efficiency was 62.2 but my total efficiency was 67.0.
What efficiency should I be concerned with ,mash or total? Either way I think it's still low. Am I right?
I used 13 lbs of grain
Mashed at 152 for 60 minutes
Batch Sparged at 160 for about 10 minutes and stirred the crap out of it, rinsed the grains twice.
Got 6.5 gallons of wort with a pre boil gravity of 1.046.
Boiled for an hr down to 5.5 gallons with a gravity of 1.059.
My beersmith says mash efficiency was 62.2 but my total efficiency was 67.0.
What efficiency should I be concerned with ,mash or total? Either way I think it's still low. Am I right?