I'm at a loss for words and hope someone can shed some light on my low efficiency problem ~ 60%.
I have a 20 gal HLT with a heat exchanger (HERMS) and a 20 gal mash tun. I mashed this time at about 154 for about 45 mins, then fly sparged with 168 water until I met my boil volume of 7 gal.
I used to get half of my kettle volume with first runnings, then batch sparge the rest to get the full volume. I was anticipating this being the problem for my low efficiency numbers, so I moved to a fly sparge method and drain slowly. This is the 2nd batch that has come out the same at ~60%, with 2 different supply stores milling the grain.
My sparge arm isn't the best (came with my all grain HLT and Mash kit), but still I expected improvement over the batch sparge method.
Here is the recipe.
8 lb 2 row brewers Briess
1 lb Munich
1 lb pilsen
0.5 lb carapils
0.5 lb caramel 60
0.5 lb of Gambriesus honey
Estimated 6 gal OG is 1.044 with 60% efficiency....My measured OG was 1.043 - 1.044.
I'm open to suggestions... Haha
I have a 20 gal HLT with a heat exchanger (HERMS) and a 20 gal mash tun. I mashed this time at about 154 for about 45 mins, then fly sparged with 168 water until I met my boil volume of 7 gal.
I used to get half of my kettle volume with first runnings, then batch sparge the rest to get the full volume. I was anticipating this being the problem for my low efficiency numbers, so I moved to a fly sparge method and drain slowly. This is the 2nd batch that has come out the same at ~60%, with 2 different supply stores milling the grain.
My sparge arm isn't the best (came with my all grain HLT and Mash kit), but still I expected improvement over the batch sparge method.
Here is the recipe.
8 lb 2 row brewers Briess
1 lb Munich
1 lb pilsen
0.5 lb carapils
0.5 lb caramel 60
0.5 lb of Gambriesus honey
Estimated 6 gal OG is 1.044 with 60% efficiency....My measured OG was 1.043 - 1.044.
I'm open to suggestions... Haha