bornandraisedlv
Well-Known Member
Just want to get some insight as to where I lost efficiency. I realize that it’s not a huge deal but would like to know any areas I could improve on.
I had pretty good mash efficiency with 86.1% but my final dropped to 59.79%.
Here was my build:
13.25 lb (6.01 kg) two-row pale malt
0.6 lb (272 g) crystal 45° L malt
0.6 lb (272 g) Carapils (dextrin) malt
0.75 lb (340 g) dextrose (corn) sugar
3.5 oz (99 g) Columbus* hops, 13.9% a.a. (90 min)
0.75 oz (21 g) Columbus* hops, 13.9% a.a. (45 min)
1.0 oz (28 g) Simcoe hops, 12.3% a.a. (30 min)
1.0 oz (28 g) Centennial hops, 8% a.a. (0 min)
2.5 oz (71 g) Simcoe hops, 12.3% a.a. (0 min)
Hit my mash in perfectly at 152° with 4 gallons of water, recirced through herms for 10 mins to step up to 170° and pulled my first runnings. Then fly sparged with 168° water to get to my 7.57 gallons of wart that I needed for a 90 min boil. Thought this volume was a little low but it’s what BeerSmith said to go with. Came in just over my estimated OG of 1.055 at 1.059.
Boiled for 90mins, not super vigorous it was a nice roll. Added my final hop addition at flameout, ran through the counter flow chiller and into the fermenter once I got 68°. Ended up only pulling 4.5 gallons of wort, which I thought was low. (Need to read up on boil off rate and how temperature might effect it?)
I let it sit there about 30 mins as we had another batch going that needed tending to. Took my fg reading and got 1.062.
I don’t feel like I really missed any of my numbers other than coming in short of my estimated volume that was supposed to go into the fermenter by .5 gal it so.
Any thoughts?
I had pretty good mash efficiency with 86.1% but my final dropped to 59.79%.
Here was my build:
13.25 lb (6.01 kg) two-row pale malt
0.6 lb (272 g) crystal 45° L malt
0.6 lb (272 g) Carapils (dextrin) malt
0.75 lb (340 g) dextrose (corn) sugar
3.5 oz (99 g) Columbus* hops, 13.9% a.a. (90 min)
0.75 oz (21 g) Columbus* hops, 13.9% a.a. (45 min)
1.0 oz (28 g) Simcoe hops, 12.3% a.a. (30 min)
1.0 oz (28 g) Centennial hops, 8% a.a. (0 min)
2.5 oz (71 g) Simcoe hops, 12.3% a.a. (0 min)
Hit my mash in perfectly at 152° with 4 gallons of water, recirced through herms for 10 mins to step up to 170° and pulled my first runnings. Then fly sparged with 168° water to get to my 7.57 gallons of wart that I needed for a 90 min boil. Thought this volume was a little low but it’s what BeerSmith said to go with. Came in just over my estimated OG of 1.055 at 1.059.
Boiled for 90mins, not super vigorous it was a nice roll. Added my final hop addition at flameout, ran through the counter flow chiller and into the fermenter once I got 68°. Ended up only pulling 4.5 gallons of wort, which I thought was low. (Need to read up on boil off rate and how temperature might effect it?)
I let it sit there about 30 mins as we had another batch going that needed tending to. Took my fg reading and got 1.062.
I don’t feel like I really missed any of my numbers other than coming in short of my estimated volume that was supposed to go into the fermenter by .5 gal it so.
Any thoughts?