ErikHoppy
Active Member
Brewed for the first time today with my pops, his first time as well. Tried for a modified Irish Car Bomb Stout.
6# Light LME
1# Choco Malt
1# Crystal 60
8oz Flaked Oats
8oz Roasted Barley
1oz Fuggles @60min.
Nottingham Yeast
We steeped the grains at 155 degrees for 30 minutes, had a lovely aroma and nice dark color in the pot. Took it off the heat and added our LME, mixed it in and boiled vigorously for 60 minutes. Chilled it quickly in the snow, added cold water up to the 5 gallon mark, and pitched our yeast.
Only problem was, we lost some when we poured from the kettle to the bucket.
Then we took an OG reading, and the beer looked very light, much lighter in color and flavor than projected, and our OG reading was only 1.030.
I'm quite confused on what went wrong, as this was projected to come out as a very dark stout with an OG around 1.050.
Any thoughts? The only thing I can think of is that I didn't sparge the steeping grains, but I honestly did not think I would miss out on that many sugars by skipping the sparging.
The only other thing I can think of is that the bucket we have is a 6 gallon, and we inadvertently added an extra gallon of water... I should have checked before hand.
In any case, it had a good flavor, just was very weak. We'll see what happens!
6# Light LME
1# Choco Malt
1# Crystal 60
8oz Flaked Oats
8oz Roasted Barley
1oz Fuggles @60min.
Nottingham Yeast
We steeped the grains at 155 degrees for 30 minutes, had a lovely aroma and nice dark color in the pot. Took it off the heat and added our LME, mixed it in and boiled vigorously for 60 minutes. Chilled it quickly in the snow, added cold water up to the 5 gallon mark, and pitched our yeast.
Only problem was, we lost some when we poured from the kettle to the bucket.
Then we took an OG reading, and the beer looked very light, much lighter in color and flavor than projected, and our OG reading was only 1.030.
I'm quite confused on what went wrong, as this was projected to come out as a very dark stout with an OG around 1.050.
Any thoughts? The only thing I can think of is that I didn't sparge the steeping grains, but I honestly did not think I would miss out on that many sugars by skipping the sparging.
The only other thing I can think of is that the bucket we have is a 6 gallon, and we inadvertently added an extra gallon of water... I should have checked before hand.
In any case, it had a good flavor, just was very weak. We'll see what happens!