Promash question again?

[GABrewboy]

Okay, can someone please answer this for me yet again?

In ProMash when calculating effc. do I want to select measurement in the Kettle or in the Fermentor? If I select in the Fermentor, I am a good 10-15% higher in effc then in the Kettle. Why is this and which is the true reading? Help, totally confused yet again on this effc.

Thanks

By the way, currently in Kettle is a Vienna Weiss

 

[Brewiz]

In the kettle is going to give you a more accurate reading, which is the eff of your mash. In the fermentor is after the boil which would be a more concentrated wort.

 

[RichBrewer]

Remember that when you switch between kettle and fermenter you have to adjust the volume. There will be more wort in the kettle pre-boil than what ends up in the fermenter.

 

[GABrewboy]

Ahh haaa......that's what I wasn't doing.....I wasn't changing my wort volume....that makes it match more accurate now......but that really sucks, cause I am only getting about 55% effc.....dang it.....that sucks.....

 

[ajf]

Ahh haaa......that's what I wasn't doing.....I wasn't changing my wort volume....that makes it match more accurate now......but that really sucks, cause I am only getting about 55% effc.....dang it.....that sucks.....

If you say what grain and equipment you were using, and explain how you mash and sparge including temperatures and time, somebody may be able to help you out.

-a.

 

[GABrewboy]

.5lbs dextrine malt
.5lbs rice hulls
5.5 lbs wheat
3.5 pilsner
1.5 munich

I mashed in with 168 degree water with 4 gallons

I sparged with 7 gallons of 170 degree water. I just do batch sparge since I don't have anything to do fly sparging with. I let it sit for about 20 mins then let it rip. I am using one of the square cooler on wheels with a ss screen manifold.

Thanks

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

.5lbs dextrine malt
.5lbs rice hulls
5.5 lbs wheat
3.5 pilsner
1.5 munich

I mashed in with 168 degree water with 4 gallons

I sparged with 7 gallons of 170 degree water. I just do batch sparge since I don't have anything to do fly sparging with. I let it sit for about 20 mins then let it rip. I am using one of the square cooler on wheels with a ss screen manifold.

Thanks

Schneider-Weisse-like hefeweizen recipe?? (I'd ditch the dextrine malt, but that's off-tangent...)

Did you collect the entire volume of your sparge? That would mean you collected around 9 gallons of wort? That's a ton to boil down. If you dumped 7g of sparge water into your tun and then only collected a portion of it you left a lot of sugar in the tun in that wort you didn't collect.

When batch sparging it's very important to collect everything you put in the tun or you will be leaving sugar behind. If I were doing that recipe and mashed in with 4g of water, I'd probably do one batch sparge of around 3-4g aiming for around 7g in the kettle.

 

[GABrewboy]

Hmmm....now I think I am confused a little, because I collected all the wort, except for maybe a couple of quarts that for some reason I just can't seem to get out of my cooler because of the way my manifold is a few inches above the bottom of the cooler. Other then that, I did collect a little over 8 gallons, boiled down my 7 gallon kettle and added the remaining gallon or so. I then boiled that down and got almost 6 gallons of wort going into primary.