linusstick
Well-Known Member
Here's the recipe I used to a T
Malt:
6.6 lb Light LME
3 lb Golden DME
Grains:
1 lb Caramel 80L
8 oz Victory
4 oz Carapils
Hops:
2oz Chinook (11.2) 60 Min
2oz Centennial (10.0) 20 Min
3oz Columbus (14.4) 5 Min
Yeast:
WLP01- CA Ale
2.5 gallons of water heated to 155. Steeped grains for 20 minutes. Brought to a boil and added all extracts. Boiled 60 minutes. Did the above hop schedule. When I got the wort cooled to 70 I dumped it into the fermenter. Instead of the wort being liquid as in my past beers (this is my first bigger beer), the wort was a clumpy sludge. Disappointed, I topped the fermenter off to 5 gallons. I took an OG reading and instead of the 1.08 the recipe called for, it was 1.03. Even with the wort being sludge. So I turned the brewpot upside down and let some more of the sludge fall into the wort. Stirred it up and got the OG to 1.04. I pitched the yeast and put the fermenter away feeling defeated. To make matters worse, my when I poured my starter into the beer, alot of the slurry was stuck to the bottom of the flask. Now the second part of this is what should I expect of the outcome? 1.04 is way off the target, but can I at least expect a drinkable IPA instead of IIPA? What went wrong? I guess I should've taken gravity readings as I was adding water, but I figured with that thick sludge that there was no way that was going to even get to 1.08
Malt:
6.6 lb Light LME
3 lb Golden DME
Grains:
1 lb Caramel 80L
8 oz Victory
4 oz Carapils
Hops:
2oz Chinook (11.2) 60 Min
2oz Centennial (10.0) 20 Min
3oz Columbus (14.4) 5 Min
Yeast:
WLP01- CA Ale
2.5 gallons of water heated to 155. Steeped grains for 20 minutes. Brought to a boil and added all extracts. Boiled 60 minutes. Did the above hop schedule. When I got the wort cooled to 70 I dumped it into the fermenter. Instead of the wort being liquid as in my past beers (this is my first bigger beer), the wort was a clumpy sludge. Disappointed, I topped the fermenter off to 5 gallons. I took an OG reading and instead of the 1.08 the recipe called for, it was 1.03. Even with the wort being sludge. So I turned the brewpot upside down and let some more of the sludge fall into the wort. Stirred it up and got the OG to 1.04. I pitched the yeast and put the fermenter away feeling defeated. To make matters worse, my when I poured my starter into the beer, alot of the slurry was stuck to the bottom of the flask. Now the second part of this is what should I expect of the outcome? 1.04 is way off the target, but can I at least expect a drinkable IPA instead of IIPA? What went wrong? I guess I should've taken gravity readings as I was adding water, but I figured with that thick sludge that there was no way that was going to even get to 1.08