I doubt the beer I made today will be any good but I'll see it through to the end.
Made a Brown ale today when I punched in the numbers on beer calculus it gave me an estimated OG of 1.057 I was using all mutons light dme with some specialty grains steeped.
when I take my reading it say's 1.067 and I didn't even boil down to to the 5 gallons I had like 5 and a half.
So a buddy of mine punched my recipe in promash with 5.5gal of wort (which I know now I need to get) and he gets 1.067 on the nose.
Lesson #1 learned buy promash
Lesson #2 Put on air lock before sealing bucket lid to avoid gromet slipping off.
I had to sanitize a spoon and fish out the gromet after I had already fished out the yeast.
A couple of tries, because the spoon wasn't long enough I had no choice but to sanitize my whole arm and fish it out with my hands.
If this beer even comes out remotely ok I would consider myself lucky.
This is my 8th batch and I never really had trouble with previous batches.
this is the recipe I made on beer calculus
% LB OZ
74% 6 0 Muntons Light Dry Malt Extract
12% 1 0 Muntons Amber DME
6% 0 8 Crystal 60L
5% 0 6 Chocolate Malt (UK)
3% 0 4 Malto-Dextrin
boil 60 mins 1.0oz Willamette pellet 4.7
boil 15 mins 1.0oz Goldings, East Kent pellet 4.5
Safale S-04 Dry Yeast
Original Gravity
1.067
I'm afraid I didn't really adjust the recipe for such a high OG and then I had to stick my arm in the wort.
ON a good note my home made wort chiller worked great. 15 min I had beer at 65!
Do you guys think I'll get lucky?
brew day not so smooth
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