I have just finished my first two AG brews on my GF and was less than impressed with the OG I attained, started playing with the numbers and suspect the problem lies in my liquor calcs. I used the GF app. instead of the recipe from Greg Hughes calcs. The differences were quite big, I had a recipe with 6,1 kg of grain for 17 liter batch, an imperial IPA, GF app said 23,3 liters for the mash and 5 liters for the sparge. That obviously didn't work out so good...feel stupid for not double checking these volumes...am I missing something ??
On Monday I am planning one of Greg's single hop Ales, there is 4,94kg of grain so for a 23 liter batch according to:
Greg 12,3 liters Mash and 19,7 liters sparge.
Grainfather App 16,8 liters Mash and 15,6 liters sparge.
Grainfather calc. from their website 14,3 mash and 16,9 sparge.
Feeling a little lost so it's OK if you talk to me like I am dumb....
My goal is to get my efficiency up so I presume the way forward is to figure out how little mash water is doable?
On Monday I am planning one of Greg's single hop Ales, there is 4,94kg of grain so for a 23 liter batch according to:
Greg 12,3 liters Mash and 19,7 liters sparge.
Grainfather App 16,8 liters Mash and 15,6 liters sparge.
Grainfather calc. from their website 14,3 mash and 16,9 sparge.
Feeling a little lost so it's OK if you talk to me like I am dumb....
My goal is to get my efficiency up so I presume the way forward is to figure out how little mash water is doable?
