American IPA Single Wide IPA clone

[sfgoat]

I entered this recipe in Brewsmith and scaled back to 2 gallons (dont hate, its simply my capacity at the moment) and for the second week in a row, I overshot my OG... WAY overshot my OG.

According to brewsmith I was supposed to hit 1.058 and I hit 1.082...

4 lbs 3.6 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 75.8 %
1 lbs 0.5 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 3 18.5 %
3.3 oz White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 4 3.7 %
1.8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5 2.1 %

I targeted 2.5 gallons of post boil wort to fill two 1 gallon carboys and I ended up needing to add 2 cups of water to each carboy to get near the one gallon mark before pitching... means I still need to work on my boil off rate calculations quite a bit...

Im using BIAB and this is the second batch Ive used a nylon "sparge bag" instead of a muslin sack that came with my first kit... and its the second batch that has been WAY over OG target... Any thoughts on this, am I simply getting a WAY better efficiency than brewsmith thinks I can get, or what?

Efficiency can be affected by a lot of variables but the big things I can think of is how fine your grain crush might be and also just your equipment set up in general. I find having beersmith vs brewsmith to be more accurate once you create your equipment profile and have some time to get to know your equipment better so that you have an idea of your mean efficiency. It is not uncommon for some to get 85-90% efficiency when using biab. Take good notes every brew and after getting several under your belt with your current equipment set up you will be able to determine what efficiency you can expect and have your brewing software not only scale by size but also by efficiency so that you are getting what you expect. Me personally, with this batch, I would dilute it until I hit the desired efficiency and roll with it from there.

 

[sfgoat]

Efficiency can be affected by a lot of variables but the big things I can think of is how fine your grain crush might be and also just your equipment set up in general. I find having beersmith vs brewsmith to be more accurate once you create your equipment profile and have some time to get to know your equipment better so that you have an idea of your mean efficiency. It is not uncommon for some to get 85-90% efficiency when using biab. Take good notes every brew and after getting several under your belt with your current equipment set up you will be able to determine what efficiency you can expect and have your brewing software not only scale by size but also by efficiency so that you are getting what you expect. Me personally, with this batch, I would dilute it until I hit the desired efficiency and roll with it from there.

On second thought. Don't dilute it and just call it a double wide IPA.

 

[CU_tony]

I'm at 4/4 gallons in my mini fridge ferm chamber till I move and have more space, so it'll be double wide when all is said and done. I'm going to do some calculations but likely I'll at least change to 80% efficiency this next batch in two weeks