So... I'm having a consistent volume issue. I keep ending up with only about 4.25g of wort going into my primary when shooting for a 5g batch. Last weekend I brewed a Hoppy Wheat. All grain, 11lbs in a 5g mash tun. Mashed in with 13.75 quarts of water, fly sparged with 18.6 quarts. Ended up with roughly 6.7g in the brew pot. Took 38 minutes to bring to a rolling boil then boiled for 60min. let rest after boil to 182 deg before starting active cooling (I didn't time this step but roughly 15 minutes) I have a very efficient cooling system (plus it's cold as f#@k in New England right now), so it only takes about 17 minutes to cool from 180 to 70 deg. Then when I poured from the pot to the carboy, there was only 4.25 gal. OG goal was 1.060 and I was at 1.058 as I let some of the extra final runings from the sparge go into the pot as I've been low on vol and over on gravity in the past. Same issue when I did a stout the weekend before with 12.5lbs of grain, Mashed in with 15.6 quarts and fly sparged with 17.4 quarts. 6.5g of wort in the brewpot before the boil, 4.25g into the fermenter at the end.
Any Ideas as to what my problem ? I'm at a loss...
Any and all comments appreciated.
thanks.
Any Ideas as to what my problem ? I'm at a loss...
Any and all comments appreciated.
thanks.