Well, this was my 4th AG and honestly I made more mistakes tonight than I did on my first. Maybe I just got lazy and thought I had this stuff down. Oops!
This is Ed's Rye IPA fwiw.
Anyways, I was testing out my new electric HLT (Brewmation...really really pleased with it so far) and new chiller. I heated my strike water to 180F and let it drop back to my strike temp of 165F. Normally I've been hitting my temps dead on, but for whatever reason the mash settled in at 150-152 depending on where I measured. The target temp for the recipe was 154. From what I've read, I'll be dealing with a slightly more fermentable wort no? If I continued as is would this be overly dry? (Beersmith has me at 77 IBU's and ~1.070 OG at ~5 gallons).
I'm using just one pack of US-05 (didn't bother re-hydrating) and I know this is generally considered a good attenuator, so I boiled down to 4.5 gallons to increase the OG. My thinking is this would make the yeast peter out a little earlier leaving a little more sweetness to balance out all those IBU's.
Is any of my thinking flawed? I know I need to get better at nailing down my processes for consistent results, but that will come with time I'm hoping! I took really detailed notes this time at least.
This is Ed's Rye IPA fwiw.
Anyways, I was testing out my new electric HLT (Brewmation...really really pleased with it so far) and new chiller. I heated my strike water to 180F and let it drop back to my strike temp of 165F. Normally I've been hitting my temps dead on, but for whatever reason the mash settled in at 150-152 depending on where I measured. The target temp for the recipe was 154. From what I've read, I'll be dealing with a slightly more fermentable wort no? If I continued as is would this be overly dry? (Beersmith has me at 77 IBU's and ~1.070 OG at ~5 gallons).
I'm using just one pack of US-05 (didn't bother re-hydrating) and I know this is generally considered a good attenuator, so I boiled down to 4.5 gallons to increase the OG. My thinking is this would make the yeast peter out a little earlier leaving a little more sweetness to balance out all those IBU's.
Is any of my thinking flawed? I know I need to get better at nailing down my processes for consistent results, but that will come with time I'm hoping! I took really detailed notes this time at least.