John Burns
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I've been brewing for a year now and I usually do partial mash brews which most of my beers came out great however, I decided to switch to all grain mash. My last 2 beers I've brewed both ended 20-30 pts below my target original gravity I feel like I followed all the procedures correctly but I continue to see the same results. I wanted to make a 3 gallon Single Mash beer using BIAB method. Here is my recipe
4 lbs 5 oz of Maris Otter
8 oz of Carapils
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 25 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 15 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 10 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 5 mins remaining
1 oz of Simcoe 10 days Dry hop
Had my grains crushed by my local brew shop, asked him to crush it very finely and I was doing a BIAB brew style. Strike water was 157F using mash water of 4.5 gallons of water. I did not mash out/sparge because I could easily squeeze the bag and drain the liquid of the of mesh bag using a pulley system. My mash temperature was at a constant of 152F for 60 minutes. After mashing my pre-boil water was 4 gallons. My boil off is 1 gal/hr. Boiled the wort and finished with exactly 3 gallons. My gravity should of been 1.060 however, I ended with 1.030.
Only possible issues I could think of is I did not monitor my pH levels (read from "How to brew" optimal pH is 5.2 to 5.5) or squeezing the bag and not sparging (read from "How to Brew" from john palmer than sparging isn't necessary since gravity will force out all the sugars from the grain).
The link below seems to be the similar issue I'm having
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/efficiency-issues-missing-og.660770/
Please any insights would be helpful.
4 lbs 5 oz of Maris Otter
8 oz of Carapils
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 25 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 15 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 10 mins remaining
.5 oz of Simcoe @ 5 mins remaining
1 oz of Simcoe 10 days Dry hop
Had my grains crushed by my local brew shop, asked him to crush it very finely and I was doing a BIAB brew style. Strike water was 157F using mash water of 4.5 gallons of water. I did not mash out/sparge because I could easily squeeze the bag and drain the liquid of the of mesh bag using a pulley system. My mash temperature was at a constant of 152F for 60 minutes. After mashing my pre-boil water was 4 gallons. My boil off is 1 gal/hr. Boiled the wort and finished with exactly 3 gallons. My gravity should of been 1.060 however, I ended with 1.030.
Only possible issues I could think of is I did not monitor my pH levels (read from "How to brew" optimal pH is 5.2 to 5.5) or squeezing the bag and not sparging (read from "How to Brew" from john palmer than sparging isn't necessary since gravity will force out all the sugars from the grain).
The link below seems to be the similar issue I'm having
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/efficiency-issues-missing-og.660770/
Please any insights would be helpful.