Over shot Pre Boil SG

[brewinhard]

Sounds ok to me, too. Let us know how it goes.

Beer turned out great (gone in three days), no issues. I had this same issue a few more times as Im still dialing in my equipment. My newbee efficiency was 65% now Im at 82% and still overshooting. Im guessing my final efficiency will be around 85% - 87% ish. Im making small changes in my grain bill because I would rather overshoot that undershoot OG.

If you seem to be hitting consistently around 80%, then adjust your recipe scaling in your brewing software to 80% as a baseline and see if you get closer to your OG's. That would be a good place to start as well as using less grains.

[dad311]

Sounds ok to me, too. Let us know how it goes.

Beer turned out great (gone in three days), no issues. I had this same issue a few more times as Im still dialing in my equipment. My newbee efficiency was 65% now Im at 82% and still overshooting. Im guessing my final efficiency will be around 85% - 87% ish. Im making small changes in my grain bill because I would rather overshoot that undershoot OG.

If you seem to be hitting consistently around 80%, then adjust your recipe scaling in your brewing software to 80% as a baseline and see if you get closer to your OG's. That would be a good place to start as well as using less grains.

Ive been adjusting from 65% up to 80% and Im still adjusting. Ill continue to adjust, but Im guessing I need to be around 85%.

[Ozwald]

Ive been adjusting from 65% up to 80% and Im still adjusting. Ill continue to adjust, but Im guessing I need to be around 85%.

I've always enjoyed experimenting while tuning in a new system/overhaul. I've always been a little nit picky about being able to brew the same recipe the same way over and over & found it rather frustrating when I couldn't due to things like this. Then I got the idea that I can still produce good wort even if it's not exactly what I was shooting for & learn from the numbers.

Instead of just fermenting the batch like normal, I'd split it up between a few 3 gallon carboys or a bunch of 1 gallon jugs to play with variables. Trying different dry hopping regiments for my pales & IPAs, coffee for my porter, etc, was always a blast. And it usually left me with some new ideas to try in the future.

One really interesting one I did involved 9 separate 1g jugs. 3 control, and the remaining 6 were split between 3 different yeast strains. I learned a bit about the effects of Kolsch yeast & hop presence (control was 1056/001). I was going to try it full scale but we had a warm up & my Kolsch strain went crazy - there's still a little bit of a stain on the ceiling, think I need a new ceiling mop - and ended up slightly infected. I didn't bother trying to acid-wash it & never picked up a new pitch. It's still in my experimenting notes, just a matter of when I'll get back around to it. I'm just waiting for this heat wave to pass to get my fermenters full at the moment.

Anyhow, thought I'd share. It certainly made tuning in my system a lot more fun & effectively gave me 2 things to do with 1 batch.