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re: Homebrewing: Brewing in process thread (with pics)
Posted on 3/6/13 at 11:11 am to s14suspense
Posted on 3/6/13 at 11:11 am to s14suspense
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He was talking about the pointlessness of brewhouse efficiency to a homebrewer
Well i agree with that. But i think he was referring to my mash eff. I mean unless i drained off more wort from my mash, i can't really know for certain if my mash eff. would change. I can see a possibility of it going down, but until i do it, i won't know. But also, if my wort loss is less, then it shouldn't really effect my evap. rate.
I see the brewhouse efficiency is good at getting all the parts of your brew dialed in for consistency.
Take my brewing for example. My last 2-3 batches i've been short on wort volume at fermenting time. If i can get my evaporation rates calculated properly, i may be able to fix this. This could mean scaling my recipe up to 5.5 gallons
This post was edited on 3/6/13 at 11:16 am
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Posted on 3/6/13 at 11:17 am to BugAC
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Take my brewing for example. My last 2-3 batches i've been short on wort volume at fermenting time. If i can get my evaporation rates calculated properly, i may be able to fix this. This could mean scaling my recipe up to 5.5 gallons
In your cases though, had you ended up with 5 gallons of wort your OG would have been significantly lower than you wanted, meaning that you didn't pull off enough sugars from your mash. the fact that you didn't have enough sugars in your wort has nothing to do with the boiling and transferring to the carboy/bucket. It all has to do with your mashing/sparging technique.
Because what you will do to fix it is add more water to your mash/sparge which will only dilute the wort. So you can either determine why you aren't pulling out more sugar or add more grain to compensate for the lack of mash efficiency.
This post was edited on 3/6/13 at 11:19 am
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