Liebz15
Active Member
Re-circ at temperature for 60 mins, then ramp up to 168 for mashout for 15-20 mins. Drain the wort.
Then, add a second batch of sparge water, stir the mash, recirculate for 15 at 168.
Perhaps your problem is that you are doing a single sparge?
That definitely could be the problem because I never thought of adding an additional round of sparge water. Another issue may be my mis-calculating the dead space loss. I had to add an extra 1/2 gallon to my boil to get it to 5.5 gallons (assume half gallon loss in boil to get me to 5 gallon final).
Thanks for the help and I will let you know how my next batch turns out!