Celso Souza Filho
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Recently I tried to make a brew with a higher og that I’m used to make, but couldn’t get over 1065. The recipe took 12kg of malt for 50l
Any tips?
Any tips?
What's your equipment? BIAB? Recirculating mash?
Have you ever calculated your efficiency with successful brews at lower OG?
With a 20 litre Braumeister 1070 is hard without dme or sugar (or a double mash), there's just not enough space and the pump starts to struggle at 5.5 Kg with 22/23 litres of water.
Yes mashing and recirculatingAre you mashing grain?
What software are you using to calculate this, mine shows for a 48l boil that you would get 1.065 at 40l with that grain billI use a 65 l pot for mashing and 73l pot for boiling
Recirculating for 30 min, sparge, 15 min recirculate again
300g cane sugar
6kg pale
4kg light Munich
2kg red x
What software are you using to calculate this, mine shows for a 48l boil that you would get 1.065 at 40l with that grain bill
I use beersmith, that is what I end up with, 1065 at 45l. But I wanted to make 1072 at 50l, that was the target. 100min boil made me lose a lot of water and didn’t get were I wanted. Should I try more malt next time?
If BeerSmith is telling you 1.065 and that's what you ended with then I'd say adjust your recipe (base malt) amounts until you get to the target you want. 1.072 isn't really that much higher.
As others have already suggested you could make up the difference with DME.
If BeerSmith is telling you 1.065 and that's what you ended with then I'd say adjust your recipe (base malt) amounts until you get to the target you want. 1.072 isn't really that much higher.
As others have already suggested you could make up the difference with DME.
At what efficiency?Beersmith shows 1072 with that grain bill, that’s why I believe I could adjust something on my process
Yes, that must be the difference.At what efficiency?
Never seen that mash schedule before. In fact I've never seen a recirculate after a sparge nor a mash of less than 1 hour - but that might just be my ignorance.Recirculating for 30 min, sparge, 15 min recirculate again
Yes, that must be the difference.
Never seen that mash schedule before. In fact I've never seen a recirculate after a sparge nor a mash of less than 1 hour - but that might just be my ignorance.
What temperature are you mashing at if a single temp or what's the mash schedule if multi step?
Personally I'd have thought 1 hour mash at 62-68 (or even 90 minutes at 62-65 for a very dry IPA) with other steps as additional time if multi step followed by draining the wort and then sparging would get you closer to the software calculated OG (although anything can be corrected by adjusting the efficiency you enter in the software to that of your system, the specific mash schedule and the brew/recipe itself).
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