vincent9192
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So earlier today I started off my 1st grain brew attempt, a clone of left hand milk stout. Everything was going good but my O.G. was very low, 1.02 compared to the 1.06 the recipe suggested it should be. After some reading I realized my mistake was that after steeping the grains I sparged them way too quickly, i.e. just poured more water over my strainer and called it a day.
So my next move was to put some of my culinary skills to use and decided to re-boil 1/2 the batch to reduce it and hopefully bring the O.G. up again. It worked and right now the O.G. I got is 1.09, which is a bit high for the recipe. Just wondering if this was a good workaround or if i'm going to run into some problems here.
Good news is that I know what I did wrong with the sparging and it's a live and learn world
So my next move was to put some of my culinary skills to use and decided to re-boil 1/2 the batch to reduce it and hopefully bring the O.G. up again. It worked and right now the O.G. I got is 1.09, which is a bit high for the recipe. Just wondering if this was a good workaround or if i'm going to run into some problems here.
Good news is that I know what I did wrong with the sparging and it's a live and learn world