sparkyaber
Well-Known Member
Here is the situation, I brewed an Indian Brown Ale from midwest. How do you folks post the info from Beersmith here? I will do that so you have the recipe.
First of all I noticed the grains did not look crushed enough. I have found that I get a much higher efficiency when my grains are double crushed from midwest. I would get efficiencies in the high 60's low 70'son a single crush, and up into the high 70's low 80's when double crushed.
About the brew, I got distracted during the sparge, (fly sparging) and ended up having the sparge water fill the mash tun. I shut it off, let it drain down, to much of course, so the grain bed was showing. I let it fly again, this time watching the water level keeping it an inch or so above the grain bed as it should. I added a bit more water to the sparge because I thought I may need it.
Any who, I got a preboil gravity of about 1.042 temp adjusted. Should have been about 1.064 I then ran out 8 gallons of wort into my brew pot. I boiled for two hours to get the volume down to normal amounts. I ended up with my 5 gallons at an O.G. about 1.055, which should have been in the 1.068-1.072 range.
Now which had more effect on the gravity? I was about ready to call midwest and give them a hard time. I have done many of there kits and hit my efficiency every time but this one, well as long as they had been double crushed. I am concerned that the sparge may had some effect on the efficiency. Maybe a little from column A, a little from column B?
Yes, I know I should have added DME to bring up the gravity, but I was sure having the extra volume in the boiler would have brought up the gravity.
Thanks in advance.
First of all I noticed the grains did not look crushed enough. I have found that I get a much higher efficiency when my grains are double crushed from midwest. I would get efficiencies in the high 60's low 70'son a single crush, and up into the high 70's low 80's when double crushed.
About the brew, I got distracted during the sparge, (fly sparging) and ended up having the sparge water fill the mash tun. I shut it off, let it drain down, to much of course, so the grain bed was showing. I let it fly again, this time watching the water level keeping it an inch or so above the grain bed as it should. I added a bit more water to the sparge because I thought I may need it.
Any who, I got a preboil gravity of about 1.042 temp adjusted. Should have been about 1.064 I then ran out 8 gallons of wort into my brew pot. I boiled for two hours to get the volume down to normal amounts. I ended up with my 5 gallons at an O.G. about 1.055, which should have been in the 1.068-1.072 range.
Now which had more effect on the gravity? I was about ready to call midwest and give them a hard time. I have done many of there kits and hit my efficiency every time but this one, well as long as they had been double crushed. I am concerned that the sparge may had some effect on the efficiency. Maybe a little from column A, a little from column B?
Yes, I know I should have added DME to bring up the gravity, but I was sure having the extra volume in the boiler would have brought up the gravity.
Thanks in advance.