SplitHop
Apprentice
After an un-sucessful batch of Russian Imperial Stout, which by the way was from the brewers book of recipes form the 1st place National home brewers recipes, names not stated to show respect for the process, has come up short on gravity big time. A proposed fermentation gravity of 1.078 was way short form the start coming in at 1.065 leaving me wondering if my efficiency was off due to my sparging methods, or mashing techniques or because I just plain followed the recipe? It appears it has something to do with Diastetic power of my grain bill.
So for those of you out there that have never considered this little calculation, read the article now, really will save you from wishing for the right gravity. So you can see the math, this was my grain bill for this beer.
Munich Breiss 10L 28 lbs. (28 x 10L = 280)
Pilsner German 2 Row 110L 8 lbs. (8 x 110L = 880)
Caramel Munich 60L 4 lbs. (4 x 60L - 240)
Add them all together and you get 1400 and divide it by the total grain bill of 35lbs give you a whopping 40. Ugh.
Anyway thought you all would at least find this entertaining, laugh all you want, next time will be a crusher batch.
So for those of you out there that have never considered this little calculation, read the article now, really will save you from wishing for the right gravity. So you can see the math, this was my grain bill for this beer.
Munich Breiss 10L 28 lbs. (28 x 10L = 280)
Pilsner German 2 Row 110L 8 lbs. (8 x 110L = 880)
Caramel Munich 60L 4 lbs. (4 x 60L - 240)
Add them all together and you get 1400 and divide it by the total grain bill of 35lbs give you a whopping 40. Ugh.
Anyway thought you all would at least find this entertaining, laugh all you want, next time will be a crusher batch.