homebrewhaha
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Brewed extract recipe and btw took a gravity reading on sunday 1 week into fermentation (for the sole purpose of having a taste). Damn that's fantastic! @ 1.025 right now and i can hardly contain myself!
Haha- that's awesome.
I LOVE this beer. The combo of simcoe/amarillo is perfect for me, and I'm so glad that others have liked it as well.
I never buy honey malt- I should and give it a try. I've used aromatic malt, biscuit malt, maris otter malt, melanoidin malt, victory malt, and crystal malt in it in very small amounts, but never even thought about honey malt in it. That's a good suggestion!
homebrewhaha said:Extract with 1056 and my gravity after 2 weeks in primary is 1.025. I dry hopped anyway but did I mess this up?
sivdrinks said:what was your og?
homebrewhaha said:1.072
homebrewhaha said:Extract with 1056 and my gravity after 2 weeks in primary is 1.025. I dry hopped anyway but did I mess this up?
homebrewhaha said:Well, I pitched at 80º actually.
sivdrinks said:Dont think that's hot enough but I'd let it sit a while longer to clean up any off flavors from a hot fermentation. Maybe someone more experienced will chime in about your high FG.
Looks like a lot of you folks out there dry hopped in the primary itself. I'm gonna go the same way. Will keep ya'll posted how this turns out!! I've been so excited just thinking about brewing this one
^This is how I did my batch. I let it sit in the primary for three weeks then tossed in my dry hops. I bottled after 10 days of dry hopping. Worked great for me!
Thanks. Im brewing this on Sunday. Gonna be using dry Nottingham. Would 1 packet be sufficient for an OG this high?
Looks like a lot of you folks out there dry hopped in the primary itself. I'm gonna go the same way. Will keep ya'll posted how this turns out!! I've been so excited just thinking about brewing this one
Did the extract version on Sunday with Nottingham. Hit OG a little lower than expected @ 1.067.
No airlock bubbling even after 13 hours.
Don't worry about undershooting your OG. I over estimated my pre-boil volume and ended up with closer to 6 gallons of wort (OG 1.062.) Finished at 1.014 and has turned into the best beer I've brewed so far. Did you rehydrate your Notty before pitching it? How did you aerate your wort? What was the temp of your wort when you pitched?
I'm really liking the brew so far. My only question would be why Yooper didnt calculate out to 6% like Dogfish is?
D_Nyholm said:Last bottle of dfh 60 I had didn't state the abv. Same with the 120 I had.
So i checked my gravity on saturday (6 days in primary): 1.030. Tried shaking it up a little, got the temp up around 68-70. And i just checked it again 3 days later. Still 1.030 ... whats going on? I dont know why its not dropping now.
My OG was 1.067. I expected the nottingham to have done its job quickly but now its like not even moving.
I'm making 10 gallons of this today, well with just a few changes.
I am out of amber malt, so I"m using Rahr two-row for the base, with .50 pound of melanoidin malt and .25 pound of victory malt instead of the amber.
I lowered the grainbill a tad, to target 1.060 for the OG so I'm using 22 pounds of the Rahr two-row. I'm using magnum for bittering, and WLP001 for the yeast strain.
Other than that, it's going to be the same.
It sure should have! If it's not moving in a few days, I'd try repitching, unless it as an AG batch and the mash temp might have been too high.
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