joshuahardie
Beer, so much more than a breakfast drink
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Doing BIAB my efficiency of late is embarassing.
Hovering around the low 60% range.
But yesterday took the cake.
Brewing a triple, cause of limited mash volume (about 7kg is my max)
I decided to brew with 4kg of Pils malt, and boost gravity, with 1.5kg LME and 1kg of Sugar.
With 70% efficiency i should be getting just about 1080.
Well my SG is 1062!!!! that is like 40% efficiency or similar.
My water to grain was about 5:1 I sparged with about 10l and half way through the boil took a few litres out of the kettle to mix the LME and sugar into, before adding it back to the kettle.
finished volume was about 23l with 20 going into the fermenter.
Ill take any advice as my triple might as well be a blonde.
Hovering around the low 60% range.
But yesterday took the cake.
Brewing a triple, cause of limited mash volume (about 7kg is my max)
I decided to brew with 4kg of Pils malt, and boost gravity, with 1.5kg LME and 1kg of Sugar.
With 70% efficiency i should be getting just about 1080.
Well my SG is 1062!!!! that is like 40% efficiency or similar.
My water to grain was about 5:1 I sparged with about 10l and half way through the boil took a few litres out of the kettle to mix the LME and sugar into, before adding it back to the kettle.
finished volume was about 23l with 20 going into the fermenter.
Ill take any advice as my triple might as well be a blonde.