What ppg does your program have set for the type and brand of wheat you used. Sometimes it is set higher than it should be this is the actually why you “see” a drop in efficiency numbers, even though no true change in efficiency is occurring
good point. Ive seen beer smith also have malted oats set by default higher than what it actually is as well.
I've been using Barbarian in my normal/west coast IPAs recently. Does that count?
This is an issue that I suffered with for quite a while on my own personal system which is a rims it's an older sabco Brew magic. I was using malt from a local supplier(they were crushing the malt for me) who also supplies many of the small local breweries around me after about nine months of lower numbers and some stucks sparges I asked to have the grain crushed a little bit more course he mentioned he had the same requests from several of the other breweries . I am also using 20% + of spelt I also take my mash paddle and make slices through the grain bed similar to what the rakes would do in a commercial system now I'm able to let my system run nearly wide open as the manufacturer recommends and my efficiencies were in the 80s. I recently made the jump to commercial Brewing and in trusting in the manufacturer's representative for setting our grain Mill I ran into stuck mashes for the first three brewing sessions that we did very frustrating and low efficiencies change I changed Mill settings to a courser crush after reading an article regarding efficiencies with a Coaser crush and now our efficiencies are up in the low 80s and no stuck mashes . We also use rice hulls as well
I have beersmith 2 and I actually brewed this batch with spelt which wasnt listed in beersmith so I left it as white wheat figured it was the closest.
I do have the ability to step mash, haven't done it yet but I certainly can. I'll try that for the neipa I do, good suggestion thank you.
When you say 12oz is that by weight or volume? I swear rice hulls weigh as much as a balloon filled with helium.
I do this by weight and yes 12oz by weight does take up a good bit of volume
Well this is disappointing to hear. I have 2021 Citra and Idaho 7 coming and plan on doing a Citra with Idaho 7 kicker next week.
It’s typically caused by the farm picking the hops too late in the season(I actually did this to myself with my own Columbus this year) . This aroma flavor will make its way into the final product unfortunately as that compound needs to get oxidized to stop smelling that way and that’s exactly what we try to avoid.
I think I also heard of guys opening the bags, slightly breaking up the pellets a bit, and letting them “air out” a bit until they lost most of that character. Then they used it on the hotside
Out of curiosity, what supplier do you think are good?
I just recently made an all Citra beer and the 2021 YVH pellets smelled awful in the bag. It’s hard to say exactly how they translated into the beer, because I also used lupomax, cryo, and hop hash also from YVH. The Lupomax and hop hash smelled awesome. The lupo was 2020 but the hop hash 2021. The cryo-obviously is from YCH.
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. I just depends if I’m feeling lazy. When I don’t cold crash, I transfer the beer into the keg at the same temperature it was dry hopped at. In this case it was 59. I then immediately stick the keg into my Keezer which is set to 42. I put 30 psi on the keg for 24 hours as it cools from 59 down to 42. I then remove the pressure for another 24 hours, and let the headspace come down to serving pressure which is about 12. I use a floating dip tube to pull the beer from the top of the keg, so everything that crashes down to the bottom settles nicely. This works pretty well and I’ve done it several times.
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