I just brewed up m 4th batch of beer and it was Yooper's Dogfish head 60 min clone. I came up with a OG of 1.061-2 (temp taken at 67) that puts me about .01 off of target. I seem to always be getting lower numbers than the recipes I follow. Any ideas why?
I do 5 gallon extract full boils, and usually end up with about 5ish gallons in the fermentor. Probably about 1/4-1/2 gallon of trub leftover.
This time the recipe called for 9.5 lbs LME and I used 9 lbs LME and a little over .5 lbs DME which should put me over the required amount.
I have also brewed Ed's robust porter twice with 9 lbs LME and the last time I did I got a OG of 1.063 which seems low for that, but even higher than what I just brewed.
I am putting all the extract in at the beginning which seems to be what everyone else has done.
Thanks for the help and let me know what other info I need to give you.
Thanks
I do 5 gallon extract full boils, and usually end up with about 5ish gallons in the fermentor. Probably about 1/4-1/2 gallon of trub leftover.
This time the recipe called for 9.5 lbs LME and I used 9 lbs LME and a little over .5 lbs DME which should put me over the required amount.
I have also brewed Ed's robust porter twice with 9 lbs LME and the last time I did I got a OG of 1.063 which seems low for that, but even higher than what I just brewed.
I am putting all the extract in at the beginning which seems to be what everyone else has done.
Thanks for the help and let me know what other info I need to give you.
Thanks