Hi Brewers!
A couple of months ago I took the leap into homebrewing. I absolutely love the process but I have ran into an incredibly frustrating problem when trying to hit my target OG's.
I am using the Adventures in Homebrewing 15.5 gallon all grain keg system (https://www.homebrewing.org/155-Gallon-All-Grain-Brewing-System_p_1809.html) and BeerSmith3 to develop my recipes. The keg system has a massive 2.25 gallon "dead space" in the mash tun (I have measured it several times) due to the mash screen. This space is recoverable because there is a dip tube and I clicked the account for recoverable dead space inside of BeerSmith but I am still way off on my OG numbers. And I mean way off! The last DIPA recipe I ran (see recipe here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AlF8rD56EVBLcc5HQXFFxRZ9MLC9mEts/view?usp=sharing) called for a OG of 1.073, mine came in at 1.053.
I have done so much research on this issue and tried the suggested changing the grain milling and sparging slower. I have even changed from fly sparging to batch sparging to see if this would fix the issue but no luck.
Is anyone brewing in kegs and can offer some advice??
Thank you in advance for taking the time to help!
A couple of months ago I took the leap into homebrewing. I absolutely love the process but I have ran into an incredibly frustrating problem when trying to hit my target OG's.
I am using the Adventures in Homebrewing 15.5 gallon all grain keg system (https://www.homebrewing.org/155-Gallon-All-Grain-Brewing-System_p_1809.html) and BeerSmith3 to develop my recipes. The keg system has a massive 2.25 gallon "dead space" in the mash tun (I have measured it several times) due to the mash screen. This space is recoverable because there is a dip tube and I clicked the account for recoverable dead space inside of BeerSmith but I am still way off on my OG numbers. And I mean way off! The last DIPA recipe I ran (see recipe here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AlF8rD56EVBLcc5HQXFFxRZ9MLC9mEts/view?usp=sharing) called for a OG of 1.073, mine came in at 1.053.
I have done so much research on this issue and tried the suggested changing the grain milling and sparging slower. I have even changed from fly sparging to batch sparging to see if this would fix the issue but no luck.
Is anyone brewing in kegs and can offer some advice??
Thank you in advance for taking the time to help!