last night i bottled my first beer. I used the 1-2-3 method for timing. The final gravity didn't come down as much as i thought it should. I kept shaking the secondary hoping for a few points but nothing. i think i should have kept it in the primary for a little longer but now its bottled. Here is what i did tell me what you think!
1/12 -
added crushed steeping grains to 2 gal water brought to 165 deg
boil water and added:
3.3 lbs of Coopers light malt extract
3.3 lbs of Briess LBW Sparkling Amber
added 1 oz of Northern Brewer Pellets for 60 min
added 1 oz of Kent Gldgs Pellets for 30 min
added to 3 gal of cold water in ale pale
cooled to 74 deg added 1 packet of dry Mutons Active Brewing yeast and stired in
OG was 1.042
took almost 3 days to for me to see bubbling in the airlock but after that there is bubbled steady for 2 or 3 days.
1/21 (9 days later)
Racked to secondary hydro read about 1.019
beer was good maybe a bit sweet
lost about 1/2 gal due to bad syphing
- shook the secondary a few time to try to get the yeast into suspenstion....
2/3 (13 days later)
added about 4 oz of priming sugar and bottled
hydro read 1.017
So the beer looks like its only 3.3% oh well. I didn't want to mess around and try too much since it was my first beer. Let me know what you guys think of this and if you have any recommendations for my second brew.
Also - the error in my hydro reading is probably +/- .003 so the beer is probaly between 3.1 to 3.5% if that matters.
Anyone know what the origional gravity should have been for that beer...
Thanks!!!
-patrick
1/12 -
added crushed steeping grains to 2 gal water brought to 165 deg
boil water and added:
3.3 lbs of Coopers light malt extract
3.3 lbs of Briess LBW Sparkling Amber
added 1 oz of Northern Brewer Pellets for 60 min
added 1 oz of Kent Gldgs Pellets for 30 min
added to 3 gal of cold water in ale pale
cooled to 74 deg added 1 packet of dry Mutons Active Brewing yeast and stired in
OG was 1.042
took almost 3 days to for me to see bubbling in the airlock but after that there is bubbled steady for 2 or 3 days.
1/21 (9 days later)
Racked to secondary hydro read about 1.019
beer was good maybe a bit sweet
lost about 1/2 gal due to bad syphing
- shook the secondary a few time to try to get the yeast into suspenstion....
2/3 (13 days later)
added about 4 oz of priming sugar and bottled
hydro read 1.017
So the beer looks like its only 3.3% oh well. I didn't want to mess around and try too much since it was my first beer. Let me know what you guys think of this and if you have any recommendations for my second brew.
Also - the error in my hydro reading is probably +/- .003 so the beer is probaly between 3.1 to 3.5% if that matters.
Anyone know what the origional gravity should have been for that beer...
Thanks!!!
-patrick