thetmaxx
Well-Known Member
seriously I made a 5 gallon batch of witbier, never have a problem with it before, at the end of the boil, i racked to my carboy to find only 2.5 gallons!! wtf?! I looked over my water additions to the mash plus sparge was 7 gallons which should have left me with plenty after draining to the kettle for boil off.
anyways, I'm sure I miss measure something going in to the mash tun. So to correct I had a half pound of DME i use for yeast starters, and boiled up 2.5 gallons of that. the OG was 1.070, added the dme and it was 1.050. I'm not to terribly upset with the fix I came up with...
My concern is that the air lock smells like dme (bleh) and I'm wondering if the small boil volume didn't capture enough orange peel (13 minutes) can you "dry hop" orange peels?
anyways, I'm sure I miss measure something going in to the mash tun. So to correct I had a half pound of DME i use for yeast starters, and boiled up 2.5 gallons of that. the OG was 1.070, added the dme and it was 1.050. I'm not to terribly upset with the fix I came up with...
My concern is that the air lock smells like dme (bleh) and I'm wondering if the small boil volume didn't capture enough orange peel (13 minutes) can you "dry hop" orange peels?