Good Morning Fellow Brewers. So here's my problem. So far I have done about 5 brew sessions of BIAB. I'm improving on my Conversion but I'm going up as much on my total brew house efficiency. I think my problem is in my boil? Since I am a semi Nerd I made a chart of last 5 brew sessions with the Conversion, Pre boil/Ending Kettle, and Brew house. My steps are fairly consistent although I'm still trying to dial in my loss ratio's (i.e. water, trub, etc). My steps are as follows:
1. Fill kettle with 8.5 gallons water
2. Mash Grains for 60-90 minutes
3. Pull Grains and squeeze
3. Mash out 10 minutes at 170 (roughly)
4. Pull Grains and squeeze
5. Boil for 60 minutes
Above is a very simplified steps. My water loss ratio is different at just about every single brew session. I put 8 gallons in and ended with 4.5 gallons so I upped it to 9 gallons...ended in 5.5 gallons. My next brew session I'm going to try for 8.5 for my full volume mash. I'm actually thinking about heading to the hardware store and buy the parts for a mash tun and start doing traditional all grain brew with a batch sparge since I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Gunny
1. Fill kettle with 8.5 gallons water
2. Mash Grains for 60-90 minutes
3. Pull Grains and squeeze
3. Mash out 10 minutes at 170 (roughly)
4. Pull Grains and squeeze
5. Boil for 60 minutes
Above is a very simplified steps. My water loss ratio is different at just about every single brew session. I put 8 gallons in and ended with 4.5 gallons so I upped it to 9 gallons...ended in 5.5 gallons. My next brew session I'm going to try for 8.5 for my full volume mash. I'm actually thinking about heading to the hardware store and buy the parts for a mash tun and start doing traditional all grain brew with a batch sparge since I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Gunny