Follow-up from Monday's Strunk and White brew: I hit an OG of only 1054, about 6-8 points shy of where I would've like to have been. Note that I also used a pound of table sugar, so I was expecting something considerably higher. I'm not quite sure why this happens exactly, but when I mash 11 lb and below of malt, I can only acheive an efficiency of 60-65%, as opposed to the clear 70% I get when using any where from 12-15 lb of malt. I still need a few more sample points, having only brewed 14 batches so far, but there definitely seems to be a sweet spot where I really squeeze all that starchy goodness from the malt.
Regardless, the beer is fermenting merrily!
Coincidentally, our German visitors this week lived for a number of years in Heidelberg, the place where my Pisner malt was kilned!
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