I've just completed my third ever all-grain brew, all three having been done with an ACE Microbrewery and an irritating pattern is starting to form already.
On all three brews, my pre-boil gravity has been way lower than Beersmith predicted (1.034 v 1.043 today) and consequently my OG is low also (1.046 v 1.057).
I'm using a Beersmith equipment profile that other ACE users are using happily, so I don't think that's my issue, but something is going wrong somewhere and I'm hoping people could give me some ideas.
Today, I went for a smaller batch size (11L to the FV), as I figure that way I can do more brews whilst I'm learning. I actually got 10.75 litres to the FV after a few samples - so at least that part of the Beersmith calculation seems to be sound!
My recipe today was a Northern Brown Ale based as closely as I could to Greg Hughes' recipe, with a bit of flaked barley added to hopefully give a bit of head and body.
I've attached pictures of my grain bill and session data in the hope that someone can suggest what I might be doing wrong. Also worth me mentioning that I took a sample of the recycling mash at about 30 minutes and that read 11.5 brix (1.046) so for a while I was on course but something went wrong after that. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks :)
On all three brews, my pre-boil gravity has been way lower than Beersmith predicted (1.034 v 1.043 today) and consequently my OG is low also (1.046 v 1.057).
I'm using a Beersmith equipment profile that other ACE users are using happily, so I don't think that's my issue, but something is going wrong somewhere and I'm hoping people could give me some ideas.
Today, I went for a smaller batch size (11L to the FV), as I figure that way I can do more brews whilst I'm learning. I actually got 10.75 litres to the FV after a few samples - so at least that part of the Beersmith calculation seems to be sound!
My recipe today was a Northern Brown Ale based as closely as I could to Greg Hughes' recipe, with a bit of flaked barley added to hopefully give a bit of head and body.
I've attached pictures of my grain bill and session data in the hope that someone can suggest what I might be doing wrong. Also worth me mentioning that I took a sample of the recycling mash at about 30 minutes and that read 11.5 brix (1.046) so for a while I was on course but something went wrong after that. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks :)