elkhornbrewing
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I brewed the following batch expecting to get a og reading of around1.060 and i came up with 1.030....
3lbs white wheat malt
6.5lbs wheat lme
.8oz amarillo hops
1oz bitter orange peel
.4oz whole cloves
1 stick true cinnamon
I brought roughly 3 gals of water to 165 and steeped my grains with the cloves and the cinnamon for 30 minutes and let them drain back in.
I then brought the water to a boil and added as follows i had a good boil through out not to rapid but a good boil
60min Half LME and Half Hops
25min Remaining LME
20min 1oz orange peel
10min Remaining Hops
0min terminate boil.
Chilled the wort to roughly 80 degrees and filtered it out into my fermenter added enough water to get to my 5gal batch and waited for my temp to get to roughly 72 degrees took my OG at the point. Then i added my yeast a liquid yeast wyeast 3068 and took my OG again and came up with the same. i pitched my yeast at roughly 10:30pm and at 8:00 this morning I already had air let off out of my air lock. So my question is did i do something wrong of is my og really that low. If it is what can I do to increase the sugars in my batch to get the ABV up where it should be around 6%.
Any help would be great i am still in the learning process of brewing
3lbs white wheat malt
6.5lbs wheat lme
.8oz amarillo hops
1oz bitter orange peel
.4oz whole cloves
1 stick true cinnamon
I brought roughly 3 gals of water to 165 and steeped my grains with the cloves and the cinnamon for 30 minutes and let them drain back in.
I then brought the water to a boil and added as follows i had a good boil through out not to rapid but a good boil
60min Half LME and Half Hops
25min Remaining LME
20min 1oz orange peel
10min Remaining Hops
0min terminate boil.
Chilled the wort to roughly 80 degrees and filtered it out into my fermenter added enough water to get to my 5gal batch and waited for my temp to get to roughly 72 degrees took my OG at the point. Then i added my yeast a liquid yeast wyeast 3068 and took my OG again and came up with the same. i pitched my yeast at roughly 10:30pm and at 8:00 this morning I already had air let off out of my air lock. So my question is did i do something wrong of is my og really that low. If it is what can I do to increase the sugars in my batch to get the ABV up where it should be around 6%.
Any help would be great i am still in the learning process of brewing
