hercher said:What is your recipe? Can you describe your procedures more fully? Was this an extract beer or a mash. The more information you give, the better advice you'll receive.
Here is:
INGREDIENTS
Light Dry Malt 1kg
Black Rock Light Liquid Malt 1.5kg
250g Brewcraft Brewing Honey
50g Crushed Black Grain
40g Hallertau Hops
25g Goldings Hops
Safbrew T-58 yeast
Soft Brown Sugar 400g
i boiled the lme with hops for 35 min,
Put the grain into cold water then bring it to boil and remove the grain just before boiling point,
Add it to the wort with the liquid malt and sugar and honey and boil it for a other 5 min,
Then strained it to my fermenter and add water up to 15L
That's it
This phenomenon is easy to see if you have a glass measure cup, some dark honey, and water. Pour in half a cup of water into the glass container, then dribble in some honey. Notice the honey sinks right to the bottom? It's more dense because of the sugar it contains. Now use a toothpick to stir the water above the honey. This will simulate using a spoon in a 5 gallon container. Did you get the honey mixed in? Not likely. If you drop in some dry yeast, it will find the honey and begin eating and the activity of the yeast will mix the honey in just fine.
Thanks,however I mix it well cause I tried to cool down my wort and I took the sample via the tap at the bottom of my fermenter...
Any other possible explication?
Revvy said:Honestly, no matter how well you THINK you mixed, it's not enough...
It's an extract batch, as long as you have your correct final volume in the fermenter, you can't miss your gravity.
When making an extract batch you are not converting any starches to sugars, it's already done for you. All you are doing is adding an amount of water (actually 2 amounts of water-boil and top off) to a final volume (which the og is calculated for) the only way to actually miss your og on an extract batch were if you had an in the fermenter volume different than the recipe called for.
If you have whatever the recipe calls for as your final volume, the OG of the recipe is correct DESPITE what your hydromter might say.
Honestly, no matter how well you THINK you mixed, it's not enough...
It's an extract batch, as long as you have your correct final volume in the fermenter, you can't miss your gravity.
When making an extract batch you are not converting any starches to sugars, it's already done for you. All you are doing is adding an amount of water (actually 2 amounts of water-boil and top off) to a final volume (which the og is calculated for) the only way to actually miss your og on an extract batch were if you had an in the fermenter volume different than the recipe called for.
If you have whatever the recipe calls for as your final volume, the OG of the recipe is correct DESPITE what your hydromter might say.
So the answer is, relax and do nothing.
I figured it was going to be this issue, and not what the other's were suggested, but until you told us you were an extract brewer all folks could do (ridiculously) speculate.
Depression said:Brrrooother!!!!
budchx said:Anything interesting to say about beer maybe?!
Depression said:Mash at the right temp. Mashing Too high/Too low is the most common AG cause of a funky OG, Brrrroother!
Take it easy brother. I wasn't (ridiculously)speculating anything.
I don't know jack about extract. and since he didn't specify either extract or AG I gave an answer of something I know a little about and I gave budchx the benefit of the doubt that if he could use that info he would, if he couldn't, he wouldn't. Certainly he would not try to mash at a lower temperature if he wasn't mashing.
Exactly how would mashing at a lower temp give him a different OG?
I haven't ever noticed changes in efficiency based on my mash temp.
Keith_Mahoney said:Exactly how would mashing at a lower temp give him a different OG?
I haven't ever noticed changes in efficiency based on my mash temp.
Hmmm...I don't know that I can explain it exactly because I am not a chemist, but I'll try. You can also find this information in a brewing book somewhere.
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You still haven't answered my question yet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can post an article with a lot of big words that sound like John Palmer made them up.
Everything you have posted in this thread is about how to hit a specific FG (Final Gravity as in post fermentation). The OP was asking about hitting his OG (Original Gravity which is post boil but prior to fermentation)
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