Hello all,
On sunday I tried my hand at a strong ale. The recipe is an adaptation of another recipe. As my LHBS didnt have the exact ingredients.
Recipe:
extract:
7lbs Pale LME
3lbs DME Amber
2lbs DME extra light
grains:1lb of munich, and 1lb of English Carmel 50-70L steeped @ 155
Hops: 1oz Vanguard 60 min 1oz Fuggles 45 min 1 oz Vanguard 15 min 1 oz Fuggles 3 min
So I cooled to 67 degrees. I then siphoned the wort out of my keggle and into my fermentor. There was almost 3 gallons of wort. I topped of with two gallons of water. I then poured all 5 gallons form one bucket into another sanitized bucket to properly aerate the wort. I then pitched whitelabs english ale that had been sitting in two cups of water with a 1/3 cup of dex. At this time there is now visible signs of fermentation. I am going to take a hydro reading tomorrow to see if the gravity has lowered. The OG was 1.070, but how does this process sound? Did I go wrong some where?
TIA
On sunday I tried my hand at a strong ale. The recipe is an adaptation of another recipe. As my LHBS didnt have the exact ingredients.
Recipe:
extract:
7lbs Pale LME
3lbs DME Amber
2lbs DME extra light
grains:1lb of munich, and 1lb of English Carmel 50-70L steeped @ 155
Hops: 1oz Vanguard 60 min 1oz Fuggles 45 min 1 oz Vanguard 15 min 1 oz Fuggles 3 min
So I cooled to 67 degrees. I then siphoned the wort out of my keggle and into my fermentor. There was almost 3 gallons of wort. I topped of with two gallons of water. I then poured all 5 gallons form one bucket into another sanitized bucket to properly aerate the wort. I then pitched whitelabs english ale that had been sitting in two cups of water with a 1/3 cup of dex. At this time there is now visible signs of fermentation. I am going to take a hydro reading tomorrow to see if the gravity has lowered. The OG was 1.070, but how does this process sound? Did I go wrong some where?
TIA