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Offline HoosierBrew

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Re: Huge volume loss between boil and bottling
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2014, 11:50:46 am »
Also, the OP brewed an IPA. The hop particles likely thickened the layer of gunk on the bottom of the fermenter more than for most other beers,ie. slightly less yield, aside from the previously mentioned factors which contributed.
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Re: Huge volume loss between boil and bottling
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2014, 12:11:49 pm »
Thank you Steve in TX.... my apologies for coming off brash!  I truly appreciate your help.

Besides the trub and whatnot, some of your loss is probably captured in your bottles. Take a bottle and fill it with exactly 12 ounces of liquid. You'll see that point is most likely lower than where you filled the bottles with beer.

Great to know!

you say 2 gallons went into primary. if you left .5 behind in trub that's 1.5 gallons into secondary, now you said you had some trub carryover to secondary so you likely lost another say .2 gallons there and as mdixon points out it's unlikely that each bottle has exactly 12 floz in there.

Aha! That's got to be it.  Thank you so much! And that's an interesting Bill Nye bit.