David_Trucks
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This is indeed correct, about a 4% volume change from boiling to pitch temp. Thanks for catching me being lazy
Of course the OP should be clear this is just the nature of cooling, and the wort will shrink a little regardless of whether the chiller was used!
And as Qhrumpf pointed out gravity measurements need to be normalized if they are not at the standard temperature
Yes, I am aware of the uh - shrinkage - and I try to get more wort to correct for this, I just expected it to shrink after fermentation, not before, like this one did.
I understood that people were saying the chiller took up space, causing it to seem like there was less wort. That's why I pointed out that the chiller wasn't used on this batch, but the other one.