Tony
Quality over Quantity
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did one today mate even made it with 1275
50/50 ale/pils and a bit of wheat and caramalt
Bittered with POR and a bit of EKG at the end
Had a shocker though, i dont know where i went wrong.
I mashed in and thought "thats a bit watery"
It ran off and sparged 45 liters in 5 min as well
I think i may have left 2 kg of the JW pils malt out as my daughters were helping me at the time. They wernt helping me with the grain i was measuring out but trying their best to empty the rest of the bags i have out on the garage floor
Also the crush was very course, the grain was fairly whole but crumbled into little bits when gently pressed so i thought it would be ok.
Well all this equated to 52% efficiency
I usually get between 75 and 83%
my worst effort before today was 68% with a wheat that got stuck 6 times.
So i swallowed my pride and tipped a kilo of dextrose in to the boil. i figured in a 45 liter batch it wont make any difference and none of the partials i ever made when i was starting out got tipped out :chug:
The dex brought me up to 1.042 and about 24 IBU.
And it tastes great in the firmenter so should be a good drop.
50/50 ale/pils and a bit of wheat and caramalt
Bittered with POR and a bit of EKG at the end
Had a shocker though, i dont know where i went wrong.
I mashed in and thought "thats a bit watery"
It ran off and sparged 45 liters in 5 min as well
I think i may have left 2 kg of the JW pils malt out as my daughters were helping me at the time. They wernt helping me with the grain i was measuring out but trying their best to empty the rest of the bags i have out on the garage floor
Also the crush was very course, the grain was fairly whole but crumbled into little bits when gently pressed so i thought it would be ok.
Well all this equated to 52% efficiency
I usually get between 75 and 83%
my worst effort before today was 68% with a wheat that got stuck 6 times.
So i swallowed my pride and tipped a kilo of dextrose in to the boil. i figured in a 45 liter batch it wont make any difference and none of the partials i ever made when i was starting out got tipped out :chug:
The dex brought me up to 1.042 and about 24 IBU.
And it tastes great in the firmenter so should be a good drop.