Porter0220
Member
I have brewed the below recipe twice and in both occassions have way undershot on my preboil gravity. I fixed the situation by boiling down to my desired pre boil gravity before moving forward with hops, but don't want to have to waste that time going forward.
Here is the recipe and process
Grain
17 lbs US 2 Row
1.0 lb Cyrstal 120
.75 lb Black Patent
.50 lb Flaked Barley
.25 lb Roasted Barley
.75 lb Lactose Sugar (5 mins before flame out)
Hops
1oz Bravo (60mins)
.75 Chinook (30mins)
English Dry Ale WLP002
Mashed Grains at 156 degrees for 1 hr in Cooler with bazooka tube.
Beersmith provided me the following values based on my set up
Strike water 5.68 gallons
Batch Sparge in 2 batches 2gal, 1.89 gal
Total Water approx 9.6 gallons
Pre Boil Volume should be 7gal
Pre Boil Gravity 1.082
in both batches i'm ending with a pre boil gravity of 1.065
I can only come up with 2 possible solutions
1) Too much water, which doesn't seem to be the case.
2) Very poor effeciency due to high grain bill
Any help on this would be great. This recipe came out great the first time but I would like to cut down on my boil time.
Here is the recipe and process
Grain
17 lbs US 2 Row
1.0 lb Cyrstal 120
.75 lb Black Patent
.50 lb Flaked Barley
.25 lb Roasted Barley
.75 lb Lactose Sugar (5 mins before flame out)
Hops
1oz Bravo (60mins)
.75 Chinook (30mins)
English Dry Ale WLP002
Mashed Grains at 156 degrees for 1 hr in Cooler with bazooka tube.
Beersmith provided me the following values based on my set up
Strike water 5.68 gallons
Batch Sparge in 2 batches 2gal, 1.89 gal
Total Water approx 9.6 gallons
Pre Boil Volume should be 7gal
Pre Boil Gravity 1.082
in both batches i'm ending with a pre boil gravity of 1.065
I can only come up with 2 possible solutions
1) Too much water, which doesn't seem to be the case.
2) Very poor effeciency due to high grain bill
Any help on this would be great. This recipe came out great the first time but I would like to cut down on my boil time.