eojnnamleppak
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I just bottled my first batch yesterday afternoon. I made Brewers Best American Amber. I followed all the instructions very carefully while making the wort. My OG reading was 1.045, my FG reading was 1.010. I let the brew sit in my primary for 19 days. I kept the beer around 66 degrees, although the first few days is was around 74 degrees. I ended up rigging up a system with water/ice packs to keep the temp down for the remaining 17 days of fermentation.
I went to bottle the beer yesterday, the batch calls for 53 beers. I bottled them up and only had 39 bottles filled before the brew ran out. I'm having a hard time figuring out why this is so low. A few people on Home Brew Talk forums say that I must have boiled off about a gallon or so while making the wort. However, I filled the primary up to the 5 gallon mark right before pitching the yeast after I cooled it down in ice. So essentially, when the primary fermentation started, it was at 5 gallons.
I want to start on my next batch of Kolsch, just want to see if I can do things a little better next time around.
Any idea why I would be missing 12-14 beers from the batch? Not sure if the beers will be any good or not, but I am planning on letting them sit for a few weeks in the bottles before trying. And yes they are 12oz bottles.
Thank you.
I went to bottle the beer yesterday, the batch calls for 53 beers. I bottled them up and only had 39 bottles filled before the brew ran out. I'm having a hard time figuring out why this is so low. A few people on Home Brew Talk forums say that I must have boiled off about a gallon or so while making the wort. However, I filled the primary up to the 5 gallon mark right before pitching the yeast after I cooled it down in ice. So essentially, when the primary fermentation started, it was at 5 gallons.
I want to start on my next batch of Kolsch, just want to see if I can do things a little better next time around.
Any idea why I would be missing 12-14 beers from the batch? Not sure if the beers will be any good or not, but I am planning on letting them sit for a few weeks in the bottles before trying. And yes they are 12oz bottles.
Thank you.