SkylerChaBro
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Here is my situation:
I made an extract version of a light wheat beer recipe I had found with good reviews. What I needed for the extract version was as follows.
3lb Bavarian Wheat DME
3.3lb Light LME
1.5lb Light DME (ended up using Pilz)
I decided to go ahead and use the entire bag of the pilz (3lb), and added 1lb Orange Blossom honey not really thinking about how the OG would be effected.
On top of that I magically neglected to take an OG reading at all! Super fun! I now have pro-mash and decided it would be a good idea to plug the recipe in and came up with an OG of 1.086!
1.086 seems kind of ridiculous, then again it was foolish for me to not think this out before saying hell with it.
What could the potential ramifications of having such a high OG be? Any possible solutions? Maybe to see if that could be accurate, take a nice sanitized reading now? (three days into fermentation @ 68-70f)
I know honey takes much, much longer to ferment so maybe the beer will be on the sweeter side, I wanted to rack it onto strawberries in secondary anyway. Maybe that would be a bad idea at this point.
I made an extract version of a light wheat beer recipe I had found with good reviews. What I needed for the extract version was as follows.
3lb Bavarian Wheat DME
3.3lb Light LME
1.5lb Light DME (ended up using Pilz)
I decided to go ahead and use the entire bag of the pilz (3lb), and added 1lb Orange Blossom honey not really thinking about how the OG would be effected.
On top of that I magically neglected to take an OG reading at all! Super fun! I now have pro-mash and decided it would be a good idea to plug the recipe in and came up with an OG of 1.086!
1.086 seems kind of ridiculous, then again it was foolish for me to not think this out before saying hell with it.
What could the potential ramifications of having such a high OG be? Any possible solutions? Maybe to see if that could be accurate, take a nice sanitized reading now? (three days into fermentation @ 68-70f)
I know honey takes much, much longer to ferment so maybe the beer will be on the sweeter side, I wanted to rack it onto strawberries in secondary anyway. Maybe that would be a bad idea at this point.