Hi everyone
This is my first post here. I'm not new to brewing, been doing it for 6 years now but they were all partial boils. I just purchased a new equipment, 8 gallon kettle, wort chiller, and burner to do full boil brews.
Question is, I started off with 6 gallons of water. After transferring it into my carboy, I was at roughly 4.5 gallons! No biggie just curious. Everything I've seen says like 1/2 gallon will boil off. Of course mine was 3 times that.
I steeped the grains with the lid on for 20 min and controlled it around 160 degrees to make sure things were good. After that cranked it up to boil. After it got boiling, turned off, added the extract and the covered the pot around 75% so I can watch for boil overs and that's what I've read to do also to keep water in but allow DMS to boil out (I think it's DMS, could be wrong).
So what do you guys tho k of why I lost ~1.5 gallons?
Thanks in advance.
This is my first post here. I'm not new to brewing, been doing it for 6 years now but they were all partial boils. I just purchased a new equipment, 8 gallon kettle, wort chiller, and burner to do full boil brews.
Question is, I started off with 6 gallons of water. After transferring it into my carboy, I was at roughly 4.5 gallons! No biggie just curious. Everything I've seen says like 1/2 gallon will boil off. Of course mine was 3 times that.
I steeped the grains with the lid on for 20 min and controlled it around 160 degrees to make sure things were good. After that cranked it up to boil. After it got boiling, turned off, added the extract and the covered the pot around 75% so I can watch for boil overs and that's what I've read to do also to keep water in but allow DMS to boil out (I think it's DMS, could be wrong).
So what do you guys tho k of why I lost ~1.5 gallons?
Thanks in advance.