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I guess I was under the impression the top layer was beer.....Theyve settled a lot more and look the same as the right jars but the lower section is twice as tall. Every video Ive watched shows them decanting that top layer.

Thanks! Looks like my mistake was not letting it settle in the carboy before dumping it. Every youtube video says to do it a different way! Any way to settle out the trub now that its split??

Oh my wash technique-add about a liter of sanitized water to carboy and mix. Dump that into 1/2 gallon jar and let sit. The dry I decanted then split. The barbarian I decanted and added another quart of sanitized water, shook, then let sit. I decanted and poured into jars.

My brew buddy and I recently started washing our yeast. He went first, washing an imperial barbarian, and giving me one of the splits. I then brewed with this, which went great, and washed and now will be returning his jar to him full of 3rd gen yeast. I also brewed a batch using safale-05 dry...

I forgot to mention estricklin I boil pretty hard. I really want to thank all of you again for chiming in. But you must understand how frustrating this is. I've brewed a ton of beer. I just never cared before. Now that I want consistency this is driving me nuts. Its really hard with the...

I only batch sparge. Its odd because if the sparge temp doesn't matter, then I'm brewing low 60%'s strictly because of small miscalculation with dead space, and grain crush? That seems odd because we crush the grain the same when brewing on my friends rig and get 78-79% (though we fly sparge...

Thanks everyone. My preboil gravity was 1.050. One thing I know we screwed up was the sparge temp. Beer smith just said 168, and I thought that meant 168 degree water to bring the mash back to 152, where I mash. I know now this means bring it back up to 168. I don't know the batch running OG...

And I will grind finer next time... My friend and I use the same settings on the mill and he gets 78%...

Well its been a while...and several brews. I brewed with a couple friends (fly sparging, 3 keggles) and hit 86% with one and 78% with another. After all the info from the last few brews, today was the big test. Thermometer was off, profile was off. Fixed them both. Yet today we brewed 63%...

Wow so much info! Im going to get all the accurate info into beersmith, and calibrate everything/check volumes first. My buddy went over my profile and adjusted it which ended up with much less water needed, though I haven't had a chance to look at that yet. When I add grain, I dump about...

Thanks guys. I really wanted to see if there was a big red flag somewhere with my process. I'll go over the info I got today, and maybe brew another batch this weekend for some more tests. Thanks again!

Sorry Im new to writing in these forums, and may have made a confusing reply with not specifying answers. After rereading, a couple things I missed- I stir it pretty hard, but have never tipped the tun. If I tip the tun, should I uncheck the "deadspace" box to take that extra half gallon of...

Thanks so much everyone! First off-I think its mash efficiency. I don't typically measure pre boil OG, but I have and it was low. I did not today. My grain bill was 15 lb 2row, 1.5 lb crystal 30L. I ended up with 1.056, as opposed to the 1.068 I was shooting for. Beer smith called for 5.8...

So I know this is covered all over this forum, and the rest of the web. But I have read, and read, and read, and can't fix my problem. I am stuck brewing around 60-65%. I increased grain for a while, but really want to try and button it down. I've been brewing about two and a half years, about...