LaserJared
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Hello,
My buddies and I are just getting into all-grain brewing and having trouble getting our expected OG. We are trying to keep our recipe for our first IPA very simple, just US 2-row malt and one style of hops. On our last batch, we mashed 15 lbs of 2-row for 1 hour in 4 gallons of water. We vorlaufed the mash , and then emptied it into our boil kettle (first runnings were around 1.08, but went down to 1.052. We then put another 2 gallons back over the grain bed and mixed and kept the temperature at 155 for 15 min, and collected it in the brew kettle.
We ended up with an OG of 1.045, which for 15 lbs of 2 row is around 48% efficiency I believe? Anyways, I wanted to see if anyone had ideas for how we could improve, maybe crush the grains a bit finer or mash for longer? What I find confusing is that of course the first runnings will be a higher gravity, but as you get more and more diluted wort- some instructions say to stop collecting around 1.01, won't that avergae everything out much lower than you want?
Thanks for your help!
My buddies and I are just getting into all-grain brewing and having trouble getting our expected OG. We are trying to keep our recipe for our first IPA very simple, just US 2-row malt and one style of hops. On our last batch, we mashed 15 lbs of 2-row for 1 hour in 4 gallons of water. We vorlaufed the mash , and then emptied it into our boil kettle (first runnings were around 1.08, but went down to 1.052. We then put another 2 gallons back over the grain bed and mixed and kept the temperature at 155 for 15 min, and collected it in the brew kettle.
We ended up with an OG of 1.045, which for 15 lbs of 2 row is around 48% efficiency I believe? Anyways, I wanted to see if anyone had ideas for how we could improve, maybe crush the grains a bit finer or mash for longer? What I find confusing is that of course the first runnings will be a higher gravity, but as you get more and more diluted wort- some instructions say to stop collecting around 1.01, won't that avergae everything out much lower than you want?
Thanks for your help!