deancox
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A few of months back I decided to get back into brewing, and this was my first all grain.
I decided to do a brown ale. The milled grain bill weighed 11 lbs (but misplaced the recipe - so I can't tell you exactly what was in it.) I hopped it with an ounce of Galena at 60 minutes and an ounce of Goldings at 15 minutes. I ended up with 5+ gallons of lovely aromatic, sweet and tasty, deep brown (black coffee) wort with a specific gravity of 1.0471. I think I got pretty good efficiency from my sparging, correct?
I had started a vial of White Lab's Pitchable Liquid Yeast, " British Ale Yeast, WLP005, a few days prior and pitched it at 80 degrees and it took off in my plastic 7 gallon pail fermenter. It perked along nicely for about 10 days and I let it stay in the fermenter for another 20 days. When I was done there was a good 1/4+ inch of yeast on the bottom of the fermenter,
I bottled with a finished gravity of 1.011 and primed with 3/4 of a cup of corn sugar in a simple syrup. I calculate about a 4.71 ABV?
I bottled primarily in large bail & stopper bottles that originally held Fishers.
It has been a week and I know it is too soon, but I bottled a few small 12 oz test bottles so I could taste it over the next month, and the first one I opened has a definite spritz, but no real head and not much body....kind of like a Newcastle SuperLight.....not bad, but certainly not the rich taste I was anticipating.
Will the carbonation and conditioning continue over the next few weeks? Will the richness and mouthfeel come as part of that conditioning, or do I probably have a beginner's beer on my hands?
Any input is appreciated?
I decided to do a brown ale. The milled grain bill weighed 11 lbs (but misplaced the recipe - so I can't tell you exactly what was in it.) I hopped it with an ounce of Galena at 60 minutes and an ounce of Goldings at 15 minutes. I ended up with 5+ gallons of lovely aromatic, sweet and tasty, deep brown (black coffee) wort with a specific gravity of 1.0471. I think I got pretty good efficiency from my sparging, correct?
I had started a vial of White Lab's Pitchable Liquid Yeast, " British Ale Yeast, WLP005, a few days prior and pitched it at 80 degrees and it took off in my plastic 7 gallon pail fermenter. It perked along nicely for about 10 days and I let it stay in the fermenter for another 20 days. When I was done there was a good 1/4+ inch of yeast on the bottom of the fermenter,
I bottled with a finished gravity of 1.011 and primed with 3/4 of a cup of corn sugar in a simple syrup. I calculate about a 4.71 ABV?
I bottled primarily in large bail & stopper bottles that originally held Fishers.
It has been a week and I know it is too soon, but I bottled a few small 12 oz test bottles so I could taste it over the next month, and the first one I opened has a definite spritz, but no real head and not much body....kind of like a Newcastle SuperLight.....not bad, but certainly not the rich taste I was anticipating.
Will the carbonation and conditioning continue over the next few weeks? Will the richness and mouthfeel come as part of that conditioning, or do I probably have a beginner's beer on my hands?
Any input is appreciated?