eestisiin
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Hi,
I recently got a brewing system as a gift, it's a noname or rebranded generic boiler, with a pump, mash tun with filter, and so on. So it's my second brew now and the recipe is as follows:
5.3kg IREKS Pilsner 2.5-5 EBC
0.3kg Simpsons Dextrine EBC 1.3-1.6
100g of Hallertau Blanc hops
2x11g Lallemand Diamond Lager Yeast
They say that efficiency should be around 70%
So the OG should be 1.048, but I got 1.058, previous recipe I did was the same case.
Their recipe calls for 60 min and 67c and then mash out 78c for 10 min and then 90min boil. It didn't call for sparging, but I did anyway, as I understand it's a somewhat mandatory thing right? To give more details then here is what I did.
Mash was 5.6kg and 25.6l of water - I mashed for 60min@67c and 10min@78c, then sparged with 78c water so that I would have around 30l of water in the tun and started the boil - pre boil the gravity reading was around 1.050
After the boil I was left with around 25l of liquid and into the fermentor, I got like 23.5 or smth.
My question is - WHY do I keep getting higher OG - is it the sparging? Any other fundamental mistakes? I asked the guys who sell the goods and recipes about the mash and etc, and they said to start with 25L of water and then after draining the malt, add in water until you reach the pre-boil liquid level of 30L.
I mean I'm happy if I'm not doing anything wrong per'se , but I would like to know how to aim for the correct OG as I wanted my Pilsner to be more like 4.8-5ish - rather than 5.8-6ish ABV
EDIT: Forgot to mention - I also got my pH to 5.8ish, so this could also help me get more sugars out right? They don't tell anything about adjusting water chemistry - so maybe that is it?
Thanks and sorry for newbie problems like this - still learning the lingo and terms
I recently got a brewing system as a gift, it's a noname or rebranded generic boiler, with a pump, mash tun with filter, and so on. So it's my second brew now and the recipe is as follows:
5.3kg IREKS Pilsner 2.5-5 EBC
0.3kg Simpsons Dextrine EBC 1.3-1.6
100g of Hallertau Blanc hops
2x11g Lallemand Diamond Lager Yeast
They say that efficiency should be around 70%
So the OG should be 1.048, but I got 1.058, previous recipe I did was the same case.
Their recipe calls for 60 min and 67c and then mash out 78c for 10 min and then 90min boil. It didn't call for sparging, but I did anyway, as I understand it's a somewhat mandatory thing right? To give more details then here is what I did.
Mash was 5.6kg and 25.6l of water - I mashed for 60min@67c and 10min@78c, then sparged with 78c water so that I would have around 30l of water in the tun and started the boil - pre boil the gravity reading was around 1.050
After the boil I was left with around 25l of liquid and into the fermentor, I got like 23.5 or smth.
My question is - WHY do I keep getting higher OG - is it the sparging? Any other fundamental mistakes? I asked the guys who sell the goods and recipes about the mash and etc, and they said to start with 25L of water and then after draining the malt, add in water until you reach the pre-boil liquid level of 30L.
I mean I'm happy if I'm not doing anything wrong per'se , but I would like to know how to aim for the correct OG as I wanted my Pilsner to be more like 4.8-5ish - rather than 5.8-6ish ABV
EDIT: Forgot to mention - I also got my pH to 5.8ish, so this could also help me get more sugars out right? They don't tell anything about adjusting water chemistry - so maybe that is it?
Thanks and sorry for newbie problems like this - still learning the lingo and terms
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