So why is this a problem?
Most people would kill to have effientcy like that, according to Promash you
have about 88% eff.
Just go with it, Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew.
"TJG" <tjgordon1@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've been brewing 25+ years, and all-grain brewing about 3 years. I have
> an intermittent problem with specific gravity readings and hope somebody
> can help. On occasion, perhaps 25% of the time, my sweet liquor after
> sparging will read very high--much higher than expected. Case in point: an
> ale mash using about 10 lbs of Maris Otter malt in 2.5 gal water produced
> a liquor reading 1.080! I repeated the reading twice, and all three times
> got the same reading. Of course that affects the hop extraction, and I had
> no choice but to hop according to that reading. After boiling, however,
> when the wort was going into the fermenter, the s.g. read 1.048--about
> what I'd expect for the amount of grain used. MOST of the time the
> readings for extracted liquor and wort are within a very few points of one
> another, but on occasion I get this huge differential. Does anybody have
> any ideas? I'd sure appreciate some input! Thanks--
>
> TJG
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