pig140
FBC
I brewed a cream ale yesterday and it's my first time brewing with an adjunct and my first time using 6-row. It was a very simple low gravity recipe. I always batch sparge using the double sparge method splitting my sparge water. I consistently get 69-70% efficiency. I noticed the end of the sparge runnings had no sweetness at all. After the boil, I took a reading and thought I had gone a point over, but then I realized we had over-boiled. OG 1.045 (supposed to be 1.044) but we over-boiled and lost a little over a half gallon. The software calculations put me at 63%.
My recipe is:
50% 6-row
28% 2-row
11% flaked corn (which I didn't mill)
8% corn sugar
3% Crystal 10
I know it'll be good beer, I'm not worried about that. I just wanted to know if this is par for either of these additions so that I can adjust next time. The only other difference I can think of is that most of the time I order milled grain from NB or AHS. This time, everything but the 2 row came freshly milled from my semi-local HBS. Mill setting maybe?
My recipe is:
50% 6-row
28% 2-row
11% flaked corn (which I didn't mill)
8% corn sugar
3% Crystal 10
I know it'll be good beer, I'm not worried about that. I just wanted to know if this is par for either of these additions so that I can adjust next time. The only other difference I can think of is that most of the time I order milled grain from NB or AHS. This time, everything but the 2 row came freshly milled from my semi-local HBS. Mill setting maybe?