Hopefully someone can help me out with this. Second AG attempt. The flow and everything went pretty well. My first attempt yielded about 58% efficiency. Bleh.
So, utilizing BeerSmith and well laid plans, my session yesterday yielded about 63% efficiency. 5gal cooler w/ false bottom, batch sparge. Nothing special about the grainbill - 13lbs malt (11lbs 2-row). Mashed at about 1.1qt/lb (~3.5gal) 152F and sparged with two portions of 2gal.
I took grav readings of both runnoffs and preboil. I hit mash temp just fine as well as all my other numbers, (based on 60% efficiency). Off the top of my head, the second runoff was around 1.025 (seems pretty high, still).
Is there a way to gain a better efficiency? I'm assuming the second runnings being so high in grav is a good indication that i'm not extracting as well as i could? I'm still assuming i'm not sparging well enough. Is 4gal+ not enough sparge water for 13lbs grain?
Thanks in advance.
So, utilizing BeerSmith and well laid plans, my session yesterday yielded about 63% efficiency. 5gal cooler w/ false bottom, batch sparge. Nothing special about the grainbill - 13lbs malt (11lbs 2-row). Mashed at about 1.1qt/lb (~3.5gal) 152F and sparged with two portions of 2gal.
I took grav readings of both runnoffs and preboil. I hit mash temp just fine as well as all my other numbers, (based on 60% efficiency). Off the top of my head, the second runoff was around 1.025 (seems pretty high, still).
Is there a way to gain a better efficiency? I'm assuming the second runnings being so high in grav is a good indication that i'm not extracting as well as i could? I'm still assuming i'm not sparging well enough. Is 4gal+ not enough sparge water for 13lbs grain?
Thanks in advance.