Adam's Apples
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I bottled my first brew 6 days ago (a bitter) and am waiting for carbonation to complete. I haven't been able to resist a couple of tasters along the way though and have noticed that, although I really like the taste of my brew, it does seem a bit thin. This is the only way I can think of to describe it's consistency...it seems to be the main difference I notice between my homebrew and bought beers.
Is there anyway of making a heavier/thicker (this is getting confusing now as it's hard to describe what I mean!)... a beer with more body? My final gravity reading as 1.000 on the dot as I read the hydrometer, which means it's final gravity is about the same as water, right? Does this mean that all beers that finish with a low gravity will have less body and beer more thin?
My brew was in primary for a week, secondary for 2 weeks and has been bottled 6 days. I used malt extract (not sure of the specific type as I followed a kit for my first brew) and glucose. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
On a side note, my beer seems to be only very lightly carbonated after 6 days in the bottle and has no real head yet. The first two days the bottles were stored in cool temperatures, before advice on this board made me move them near the radiator in my computer room, which is a steady 75 degrees. I struck me also that I siphoned directly on top of the sugar I had boiled up after only 10 mins or so before I bottled, so the solution would have still been pretty hot. This may be the only part of the process I really got completely wrong and I'm wondering if the hot water may have killed some of the yeast - at least in the first couple of gallons I siphoned onto it before it cooled down. What do you guys think the chances of me achieving good carbonation are? Oh, I used 2.5oz sugar for the 5 gal batch - as per the instructions.
Cheers for any and all suggestions
Is there anyway of making a heavier/thicker (this is getting confusing now as it's hard to describe what I mean!)... a beer with more body? My final gravity reading as 1.000 on the dot as I read the hydrometer, which means it's final gravity is about the same as water, right? Does this mean that all beers that finish with a low gravity will have less body and beer more thin?
My brew was in primary for a week, secondary for 2 weeks and has been bottled 6 days. I used malt extract (not sure of the specific type as I followed a kit for my first brew) and glucose. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
On a side note, my beer seems to be only very lightly carbonated after 6 days in the bottle and has no real head yet. The first two days the bottles were stored in cool temperatures, before advice on this board made me move them near the radiator in my computer room, which is a steady 75 degrees. I struck me also that I siphoned directly on top of the sugar I had boiled up after only 10 mins or so before I bottled, so the solution would have still been pretty hot. This may be the only part of the process I really got completely wrong and I'm wondering if the hot water may have killed some of the yeast - at least in the first couple of gallons I siphoned onto it before it cooled down. What do you guys think the chances of me achieving good carbonation are? Oh, I used 2.5oz sugar for the 5 gal batch - as per the instructions.
Cheers for any and all suggestions