jyo
No Chillin' Like a Villain.
G'day all.
I'm now up to my 9th AG attempt, the last of which was a Hefe (based on Warra48's try again hefe) as follows-
2500 wheat
2500 pils
100 carahell
40 gms tett
3068 yeasties.
I am a three vesseller, esky mash tun, copper slotted manifold, gravity feeder.
I mashed for 90 at 64.5, by the end of the mash, it had dropped 2 degrees.
I hit mash out temp of 74, and i didn't stir or adjust the mash temp during the mash.
I always have a water to grain ratio of between 2.5 and 3 litres.
I only stir vigorously before sparging , (not during the mash) and I sparge/run off at full speed (Have read that this ok with batch sparging?)
With this brew I was a bit pissed, brewing at 11:00 at night, and stuffed up my water volumes, so ended up with 25.5l in the fermenter, instead of the anticipated 22.5, which accounts for some of my efficiency problems.
Before boil was 32 litres.
I measured 1038 in the fermenter, which is very frustrating., still giving off heaps of CO2, and krausen is still about an inch high. 2nd time I have used this yeast. Have been fermenting between 18 and 22' for 7 days now, and I have had 2 days of readings at 1010. Thats about a 4%abv effort (in keg) which is a pretty crappy effort, seeing as I was aiming for around 5.2% ABV.
WTF am I doing wrong?
My previous brews have all been very accurate in terms of water volumes (not brewing pissed), though the highest OG in the fermenter I have recorded has been 1044 (mashed at 66' for 90, same methods as above, US05 yeast) with the following grain bill-
4500 galaxy ale
400 light crystal
300 carapils
23 litres in the fermenter.
brewed out to 1005, about 5.2% ABV, was very happy.
I have held off asking these questions for awhile now, hoping to improve my process through reading etc, but things are slowly going backwards.
My grain has been cracked by 2 major WA grain and homebrew suppliers, the grist is always fully cracked, a nice mix of some flour with husk etc... so I doubt the crack has anything to with it.
Buying a few extra 100 grams of grain to boost things up is no problem, though I would prefer to know where I can improve things in the first place.
Any suggestions on how I can improve would awesome.
Cheers all, John.
I'm now up to my 9th AG attempt, the last of which was a Hefe (based on Warra48's try again hefe) as follows-
2500 wheat
2500 pils
100 carahell
40 gms tett
3068 yeasties.
I am a three vesseller, esky mash tun, copper slotted manifold, gravity feeder.
I mashed for 90 at 64.5, by the end of the mash, it had dropped 2 degrees.
I hit mash out temp of 74, and i didn't stir or adjust the mash temp during the mash.
I always have a water to grain ratio of between 2.5 and 3 litres.
I only stir vigorously before sparging , (not during the mash) and I sparge/run off at full speed (Have read that this ok with batch sparging?)
With this brew I was a bit pissed, brewing at 11:00 at night, and stuffed up my water volumes, so ended up with 25.5l in the fermenter, instead of the anticipated 22.5, which accounts for some of my efficiency problems.
Before boil was 32 litres.
I measured 1038 in the fermenter, which is very frustrating., still giving off heaps of CO2, and krausen is still about an inch high. 2nd time I have used this yeast. Have been fermenting between 18 and 22' for 7 days now, and I have had 2 days of readings at 1010. Thats about a 4%abv effort (in keg) which is a pretty crappy effort, seeing as I was aiming for around 5.2% ABV.
WTF am I doing wrong?
My previous brews have all been very accurate in terms of water volumes (not brewing pissed), though the highest OG in the fermenter I have recorded has been 1044 (mashed at 66' for 90, same methods as above, US05 yeast) with the following grain bill-
4500 galaxy ale
400 light crystal
300 carapils
23 litres in the fermenter.
brewed out to 1005, about 5.2% ABV, was very happy.
I have held off asking these questions for awhile now, hoping to improve my process through reading etc, but things are slowly going backwards.
My grain has been cracked by 2 major WA grain and homebrew suppliers, the grist is always fully cracked, a nice mix of some flour with husk etc... so I doubt the crack has anything to with it.
Buying a few extra 100 grams of grain to boost things up is no problem, though I would prefer to know where I can improve things in the first place.
Any suggestions on how I can improve would awesome.
Cheers all, John.