Missed OG by 10 pts!!!
 

What would cause the gravity to be that far off?
The recipe is a Kolsch. LM Extract & steeping grains. I followed the directions to the letter. 2.5 gallon boil and topped off to exactly 5 gallons in primary. Ran the wort through a kitchen strainer while putting it into primary to remove the bulk of the hops & moss etc... This is my third HB so my experience is limited but, I've never missed a target OG yet. I was supposed to get 1.050 and my measurement was 1.061 (corrected for temp) @ 70 degrees.

So, my feeling is that this won't hurt anything but, the little critters sure have their work cut out for them.

What are all of your thoughts?

:mug:

how much LME and how much grain?

1.061 sounds a mite high for a Kolsh, but hey, maybe you could dry hop it and call it an "Imperial Koelsch." :D

(sorry am on an Imperial anything kick these days)

oh and how high was the temp when you measured your gravity?

With extract incomplete mixing is the biggest problem. Followed by too much or not enough makeup water. Some recipes call for more than 5 gallons because they allow for a larger than normal trub. You might have applied the temperature correction incorrectly.

If you post the actual recipe, we might spot something.

3/4 lb German wheat malt
1/2 lb of Vienna malt
1/4 lb Belgian carmel malt
7.5 lbs of LME

.75 oz Nothern hops for 60m
.75 oz Tettnag hops for 20m
1 tbsp of Irish Moss of 15m
.75 oz of Tettnag hops for 5 m

Wyeast 1338 Euro Ale

2.5 gal boil, 8.5 lbs of RO ice to cool. Top off with ~ 1 gallon of RO water. Wort was sitting about an eighth of an inch above the 5 gallon mark.
Temp of wort was 70 degrees when OG was measured.

Here is what I came up with using your recipe: (click thumbnail)http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../th_Report.jpg

Thanks Pass. That color is almost a dead on match.

In the beer profile section, did you enter the OG & FG estimates or did it calculate them?

The program calculated them.

Cheers!
Justin

Very interesting..... So, the software is called "Beer Smith"? What does something like that cost?

Here is the link: Beer Smith. I think they have a free trial version.