JZ's Belgian Golden Strong Ale

[UcfLumberjack]

if you used extract then efficency does not even come into play. either you read them wrong or your tools are wrong or you have to high a volume. pilsner malt is malted grain which has to be mashed, sparged, boiled. pilsner malt extract is syrup that has to be boiled. which did you use?

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I used 8.4 lbs of briess light pilsner extract. 3lbs of table sugar.

Extract

[UcfLumberjack]

I used the recipe from Classic Styles.
8.4lb pilsner malt
3lb sugar.

for a 5 gal batch I only got a OG of 1.050 instead of 1.074
I'm not entirely sure if my wort was at 60 degrees F but I got the same reading from my refractometer and hydrometer. Could they both be mis-calibrated the same or wtf?

Just trying to clear things up. My point was that there is no efficency issue here. Maybe to much volume, bad meausring tools, or bad reading of the tools.