I had a question and I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere. Had trouble finding an answer and it seems like I don't get to many responses if I post a question on an old thread, so thought better to start a new one.
Just made a 10 gal. all grain IPA on Saturday and ended up with an O.G. of 1.060. We made the recipe on beersmith which gave an expected O.G. of 1.070. I cannot figure out what caused us to be so low. Our pre-boil gravity was higher than the expected so I don't think there was any issue with the crush, mash, or sparge. It seems like it just didn't go up enough during the boil.
We made this recipe once before, only making some slight tweaks this time around. Came out perfect the last time in terms of gravity. Unfortunately I did not have any D.M.E. around to raise it so I am going with it as is, but I am hoping to figure out the cause so it does not happen again.
The only cause I can come up with at this point is that right before we started brewing I noticed that beersmith had a boil off set for 0.5 gallons but our equipment boils off way more than that (about 2.75 gal, I know crazy).I adjusted this number prior to brewing which corrected my mash volumes, sparge volumes, etc. It did not, however, show the gravity being affected which I feel it should have since we wrote the recipe based on collecting 10.5 gal in kettle and then ended up collecting 13.25 gallons. Seems like a mistake on beersmith's part but I have never had any issues with this in the past.
Just made a 10 gal. all grain IPA on Saturday and ended up with an O.G. of 1.060. We made the recipe on beersmith which gave an expected O.G. of 1.070. I cannot figure out what caused us to be so low. Our pre-boil gravity was higher than the expected so I don't think there was any issue with the crush, mash, or sparge. It seems like it just didn't go up enough during the boil.
We made this recipe once before, only making some slight tweaks this time around. Came out perfect the last time in terms of gravity. Unfortunately I did not have any D.M.E. around to raise it so I am going with it as is, but I am hoping to figure out the cause so it does not happen again.
The only cause I can come up with at this point is that right before we started brewing I noticed that beersmith had a boil off set for 0.5 gallons but our equipment boils off way more than that (about 2.75 gal, I know crazy).I adjusted this number prior to brewing which corrected my mash volumes, sparge volumes, etc. It did not, however, show the gravity being affected which I feel it should have since we wrote the recipe based on collecting 10.5 gal in kettle and then ended up collecting 13.25 gallons. Seems like a mistake on beersmith's part but I have never had any issues with this in the past.