Ashz
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I am doing a Wee heavy today. 60 minute boil. Mash hit dead on. Sparges were fine. Do the boil test OG and it is like 1.06....WTF? Only thing I changed this brew was the Mash temp was target of 150 instead of my usual 154. Will this account for my low OG? I am currently boiling down about 2 gallons to try and salvage back to what the target should be.
Question is on the Mash temp. Normally I mash around 153-154 with no issues. I just did a 80 +/_ two days ago with that mash temp and hit my OG fine. So the only culprit I see is the Mash temp. Did I not convert near enough? I did a 60 minute mash at 150, should I have lengthened this? I don't think all is lost but I am a bit perplexed by the low gravity. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Also I am a bit concerned about caramelizing of the last two gallons back on the boil. Should I just put all back in and boil more? What a pain in the arse.....doesn't help I am feeling the flu hitting now. Relaxing with a homebrew, but still worrying.
Question is on the Mash temp. Normally I mash around 153-154 with no issues. I just did a 80 +/_ two days ago with that mash temp and hit my OG fine. So the only culprit I see is the Mash temp. Did I not convert near enough? I did a 60 minute mash at 150, should I have lengthened this? I don't think all is lost but I am a bit perplexed by the low gravity. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Also I am a bit concerned about caramelizing of the last two gallons back on the boil. Should I just put all back in and boil more? What a pain in the arse.....doesn't help I am feeling the flu hitting now. Relaxing with a homebrew, but still worrying.