100 percent efficiency?

[Adam78K]

For some reason when calculating my efficiency I boiled total of 6.25 gllons of wort and collected 6 Gallons total with 4.5 lbs flaked wheat and 4.5 lbs uk pale malt and says my efficency is 100 percent? Any Clue with this?

 

[Rick500]

What was your pre-boil gravity? Post-boil?

You started with 6.25 gallons and only boiled off a quart?

 

[DNW]

According to Beersmith, if you used 4.5# each Flaked Wheat and Pale Malt you would need to end up with 6 gallons at 1.053 OG in the primary.

I suspect one of three things:
Incorrect weight of grain, or
Incorrect final measure, or
Incorrect hydrometer reading.

 

[passedpawn]

to determine the overall efficency you only need

1. grains and their weight
2. gravity into fermentor
3. volume into fermentor

Maybe you could post these numbers.

 

[Adam78K]

Final Gravity was 1.042 and post boil was 6.25 and only got it down to 6 gallons. Usually I have more boil off but guess not. Total of 9 lbs of grain.

 

[DNW]

That means you had an efficiency of about 79%. Good, but not 100%.

.042 / (((4.5 * .035) + (4.5 * .036)) / 6) = 79.2%

 

[Adam78K]

Awesome well thank you, I appreciate all the knowledge and fast replies. Great To be a part of a great Homebrew forums and community.