I just finished brewing a porter and was surprised by how low my original gravity was.
I used to order precrushed grains from morebeer and never really checked my efficiency. Lately I've been getting grains from my LHBS and have noticed that I'm missing targets on the beers I've been brewing.
I used 12.5 lbs of grains. Mash volume 4 gallons at 150 for 60 minutes. Sparge 5.5 gallons at 170 for 10 minutes.
Pre boil gravity was 1.040 at 65. Boiled for 75 minutes (I got more wort than I calculated) and OG was 1.046. I ended up with 5.5 gallons in the fermenter. My target OG was 1.052 - 1.057! Way off!
I consider myself a novice brewer but I have about 30 brews under my belt all but 4 all grain. Is this the grain crush from the LHBS or am I missing something?
On a good note, SWMBO gave me the go ahead to buy a grain mill!
I used to order precrushed grains from morebeer and never really checked my efficiency. Lately I've been getting grains from my LHBS and have noticed that I'm missing targets on the beers I've been brewing.
I used 12.5 lbs of grains. Mash volume 4 gallons at 150 for 60 minutes. Sparge 5.5 gallons at 170 for 10 minutes.
Pre boil gravity was 1.040 at 65. Boiled for 75 minutes (I got more wort than I calculated) and OG was 1.046. I ended up with 5.5 gallons in the fermenter. My target OG was 1.052 - 1.057! Way off!
I consider myself a novice brewer but I have about 30 brews under my belt all but 4 all grain. Is this the grain crush from the LHBS or am I missing something?
On a good note, SWMBO gave me the go ahead to buy a grain mill!