ishkabibble
Well-Known Member
I've never had a problem with extraction in my years of doing this. Suddenly now my last two mashes have been pitifully weak.
Yesterday's dunkelweizen...
5# dark wheat malt
3.5# Pilsner malt
1# dark Munich malt
0.5# Caramunich II
0.3# Caramel 120
bottled spring water at a 1.5Q/# mash ratio
Mashed for 90min at 152, stirring vigorously at the beginning and middle of the mash. Starch test was clean, batch sparged over the course of an hour to collect 6.5G.
Boiled to 5.5G and 1.039, when the 5G target was 1.053.
What am I doing wrong?
Yesterday's dunkelweizen...
5# dark wheat malt
3.5# Pilsner malt
1# dark Munich malt
0.5# Caramunich II
0.3# Caramel 120
bottled spring water at a 1.5Q/# mash ratio
Mashed for 90min at 152, stirring vigorously at the beginning and middle of the mash. Starch test was clean, batch sparged over the course of an hour to collect 6.5G.
Boiled to 5.5G and 1.039, when the 5G target was 1.053.
What am I doing wrong?