Recent content by Albondigo

Thanks for all the amazing tips, everybody. The general consensus seems to be that I'm not using enough sparge water. Most of the recipes I've done recently have come from this book... which is funny, because I just read its reviews on Amazon, and several of them criticize the amount of...

For my see-thru stout, I mashed 10.75 lbs. of grains in 3 gallons, and I sparged with 3.25. Boil time was 90 minutes (my burners are two gas jets on top of my kitchen stove). I tested my burners / pot this morning, and I found it boiled off .75 gallons of water in 60 minutes. I don't...

I'm relatively new to all grain, and I'm having this problem where I'm expecting a post-boil amount of somewhere around 5.25 gallons of wort , but I end up with around 3.5 -- tops. What am I doing wrong? The wort I do end up with is always within a few degrees of OG of what the recipe tells...