I brewed a ryepa type thing last night, first thing I noticed was it was very hard to get all the grain in the tun, but it was a lot in the recipe.. this lead to a thick mash that got stuck, and ended up being a very long sparge.
Anyway I never took a reading, which isn't unusual as my proscess is pretty dialled in, but out of curiosity I took one this morning with the fermentation already going. Holy makarel, it was at .08, instead of the expected .05ish.
Now I do measure out grain with a pan and so I know that the rye is possibly a bit heavier, but even accounting for this it seems to be saying an efficiency of 95 percent plus.
The other possibility is that the wort is stratified in the conical but I chucked the weaker runnings onto the stronger quite roughly...
Anyway, if the reading is right I'll have to dilute by a third meaning the hops will be way off.
Big hop tea?
What's is the consensus?
Anyway I never took a reading, which isn't unusual as my proscess is pretty dialled in, but out of curiosity I took one this morning with the fermentation already going. Holy makarel, it was at .08, instead of the expected .05ish.
Now I do measure out grain with a pan and so I know that the rye is possibly a bit heavier, but even accounting for this it seems to be saying an efficiency of 95 percent plus.
The other possibility is that the wort is stratified in the conical but I chucked the weaker runnings onto the stronger quite roughly...
Anyway, if the reading is right I'll have to dilute by a third meaning the hops will be way off.
Big hop tea?
What's is the consensus?