jdoiv
Well-Known Member
Ok. I could use a little help from the ProMash folks on the board.
When you do your efficiency, do you take a volume measurement in the kettle or the fermenter? I've been using the kettle as I feel I can measure the volume better (though I'm starting to have some doubts about this).
Tonight, I brewed up my Belgian Wit and it looked like I had about 11.5 gallons in the kettle after the boil. Once I drained the kettles to the fermenters though, it looks like I'm closer to 12 gallons. When I plug the numbers into ProMash, I got a 80% efficiency with the kettle numbers and a 92% efficiency on the fermenter numbers. Sort of a big difference.
My last batch was about 82% based on the kettle numbers and 87% on the fermenter. The one before that would have been around 77% kettle and 87% based on the fermenter.
Anyone have a thought on why these numbers are so different?
I think I'm going to measure out each kettle and fermenter and mark them with graduation marks so I can get a better handle on this.
When you do your efficiency, do you take a volume measurement in the kettle or the fermenter? I've been using the kettle as I feel I can measure the volume better (though I'm starting to have some doubts about this).
Tonight, I brewed up my Belgian Wit and it looked like I had about 11.5 gallons in the kettle after the boil. Once I drained the kettles to the fermenters though, it looks like I'm closer to 12 gallons. When I plug the numbers into ProMash, I got a 80% efficiency with the kettle numbers and a 92% efficiency on the fermenter numbers. Sort of a big difference.
My last batch was about 82% based on the kettle numbers and 87% on the fermenter. The one before that would have been around 77% kettle and 87% based on the fermenter.
Anyone have a thought on why these numbers are so different?
I think I'm going to measure out each kettle and fermenter and mark them with graduation marks so I can get a better handle on this.