à Flannagáin
Well-Known Member
I"m getting sick of being way over or way under my target gallon size. I was shooting for 5 gals most of the time, but lately I've been shooting for 5.5 thinking that was somehow the problem.
Well,today I ended up at 7 gals, this is unbelieveable.
Around 11.6 lbs of grain.
Mashed in with 14.5 qts of water
Sparged with 5.5 gals of water (2x 2.75gals)
That's over 9 gals of water, but using brewsmith it's what I got. I figured with the amount of water the grain sucked up and the boil off that it was about right.
Anyway, after a 75 minute boil, because I could tell it was too much water, I had almost 7 gallons.
This sucks, luckily I hit over 80% efficiency and still have a 1.050sg pumpkin brew, but still pretty pissed off. I mashed the pumpkin, and have yet see what kind of trub I got, but I still think 7 gals is waaaayyyy over.
Well,today I ended up at 7 gals, this is unbelieveable.
Around 11.6 lbs of grain.
Mashed in with 14.5 qts of water
Sparged with 5.5 gals of water (2x 2.75gals)
That's over 9 gals of water, but using brewsmith it's what I got. I figured with the amount of water the grain sucked up and the boil off that it was about right.
Anyway, after a 75 minute boil, because I could tell it was too much water, I had almost 7 gallons.
This sucks, luckily I hit over 80% efficiency and still have a 1.050sg pumpkin brew, but still pretty pissed off. I mashed the pumpkin, and have yet see what kind of trub I got, but I still think 7 gals is waaaayyyy over.