bcray
Active Member
I spent some time yesterday trying to make a 2 gallon batch of barleywine, just to try my hand at it. Here's the grain bill I used:
8lb Maris Otter
2lb Crystal 20
1lb Crystal 10
.5lb rice hulls
Mashed in 5 gallons of water for 75 minutes at 154 to yield 3 into the kettle which I boiled for 70 minutes down to 2.125 gallons.
According to the BrewR android app that I set to 54% I should have ended up with 1.113. I hit 1.085. that's about 43%
I milled my own grain, and usually hit 78% with my system.
Was the lack of sparge where I went wrong here? Could that really have effected the efficiency that much to not do it? I thought that was a common thing with barleywines.
EDIT: forgot rice hulls
8lb Maris Otter
2lb Crystal 20
1lb Crystal 10
.5lb rice hulls
Mashed in 5 gallons of water for 75 minutes at 154 to yield 3 into the kettle which I boiled for 70 minutes down to 2.125 gallons.
According to the BrewR android app that I set to 54% I should have ended up with 1.113. I hit 1.085. that's about 43%
I milled my own grain, and usually hit 78% with my system.
Was the lack of sparge where I went wrong here? Could that really have effected the efficiency that much to not do it? I thought that was a common thing with barleywines.
EDIT: forgot rice hulls