I have my brewhouse efficiency set at 65% and my equipment profile all set up correctly.
I did a partial mash recipe and overshot my OG by .001 giving me a brew house efficiency of 68%.
However, my question is about my mash efficiency. I seemed to hit my numbers fine at the end, but my pre-boil gravity reading seemed extremely off. It estimated a gravity of 1.108 @ 73.6% and I got a reading of 1.073 @ 12%.
I mashed with 8.25qts for 6lbs of grains and I batch sparged with 8qts split into two additions.
I use .5gallon of boiling water in the kettle as a mash out when I drain the mash tun. And then I topped off with another .5gallon in the kettle to reach a pre-boil volume of 3.75gallons.
When I get the kettle up to 200degrees I add only 25% of my LME (add the last 75% of extract with 15mins left in the boil) and then I drew a sample and dropped the temp to 70degrees before taking a gravity reading.This is when I got a reading of only 1.073.
Is this the wrong time to take a pre-boil gravity reading?
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong since I was able to surpass my overall brewhouse efficiency in the end.
I did a partial mash recipe and overshot my OG by .001 giving me a brew house efficiency of 68%.
However, my question is about my mash efficiency. I seemed to hit my numbers fine at the end, but my pre-boil gravity reading seemed extremely off. It estimated a gravity of 1.108 @ 73.6% and I got a reading of 1.073 @ 12%.
I mashed with 8.25qts for 6lbs of grains and I batch sparged with 8qts split into two additions.
I use .5gallon of boiling water in the kettle as a mash out when I drain the mash tun. And then I topped off with another .5gallon in the kettle to reach a pre-boil volume of 3.75gallons.
When I get the kettle up to 200degrees I add only 25% of my LME (add the last 75% of extract with 15mins left in the boil) and then I drew a sample and dropped the temp to 70degrees before taking a gravity reading.This is when I got a reading of only 1.073.
Is this the wrong time to take a pre-boil gravity reading?
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong since I was able to surpass my overall brewhouse efficiency in the end.