damashiuchi
Member
Hello,
I brewed my first AG batch a few weeks ago (Yooper's Cream Ale recipe...YUM!), but missed my gravity by a few points - came in at 1.044 instead of 1.052 - I chalked it up to inexperience with mashing/sparging and just went with it, and the beer turned out pretty good.
But I did some reading and saw that a lot of people add sugar or DME near the end of the boil if they miss their target gravity. So my question is what are the advantages of doing this, other than getting a higher ABV? DME I can sort of understand because you still get some malt character, but sugar has me baffled ... If one really doesn't care about 1/2% or so of lower ABV, are there any advantages to adding fermentables like this?
Oh, and while i have you, i want to thank all the experts on here, you've all really taught me a lot about brewing just from reading your posts!
I brewed my first AG batch a few weeks ago (Yooper's Cream Ale recipe...YUM!), but missed my gravity by a few points - came in at 1.044 instead of 1.052 - I chalked it up to inexperience with mashing/sparging and just went with it, and the beer turned out pretty good.
But I did some reading and saw that a lot of people add sugar or DME near the end of the boil if they miss their target gravity. So my question is what are the advantages of doing this, other than getting a higher ABV? DME I can sort of understand because you still get some malt character, but sugar has me baffled ... If one really doesn't care about 1/2% or so of lower ABV, are there any advantages to adding fermentables like this?
Oh, and while i have you, i want to thank all the experts on here, you've all really taught me a lot about brewing just from reading your posts!