hendenburg2
Well-Known Member
For a while now,, I've been getting extremely low brewhouse efficiency when using a Brewer's Edge Mash & Boil. When I say "low", I mean "sub 50%" efficiency. The model I have is the one before they introduced the recirculation pump.
I've been following the manufacturer's instructions to the letter.
Strike water volume = (lbs of grain) x 0.3
Heat the strike water to 162F
Add grain, stir
Set mash temp to 150F
Wait an hour.
Sparge water volume = 0.75 x strike water volume.
Batch sparge at 168F (batch sparge process usually takes 45 minutes or so)
Iodine tests have always indicated full conversion. Although, full disclosure: I am partially colorblind, so it's possible I'm reading them wrong. But I try to compensate for this by running an iodine test on the wort a few minutes after dough-in and keeping it as a direct visual reference to compare later tests to.
But despite this, my wort OG almost always ends up below 1.04 on recipes *should* be ending up at 1.07 with a 70% efficiency
I've tried rigging up a mash recirculation system, but it doesn't seem to help much, or if it does, not reliably.
Has anyone else using an all-in-one electric system also had efficiency problems, or (hopefully), a way to solve them?
I've been following the manufacturer's instructions to the letter.
Strike water volume = (lbs of grain) x 0.3
Heat the strike water to 162F
Add grain, stir
Set mash temp to 150F
Wait an hour.
Sparge water volume = 0.75 x strike water volume.
Batch sparge at 168F (batch sparge process usually takes 45 minutes or so)
Iodine tests have always indicated full conversion. Although, full disclosure: I am partially colorblind, so it's possible I'm reading them wrong. But I try to compensate for this by running an iodine test on the wort a few minutes after dough-in and keeping it as a direct visual reference to compare later tests to.
But despite this, my wort OG almost always ends up below 1.04 on recipes *should* be ending up at 1.07 with a 70% efficiency
I've tried rigging up a mash recirculation system, but it doesn't seem to help much, or if it does, not reliably.
Has anyone else using an all-in-one electric system also had efficiency problems, or (hopefully), a way to solve them?