truckndad
Well-Known Member
I've been an extract brewer for 3 years. Austin Home Brew had the Kolsch PM on sale, so I decided what the hell and bought it. I'm not going to go through my hop schedule, but here's the process for my PM and extract.
2 lbs. Kolsch malt grains (premixed by AHS). Steeped between 152 and 155 for 45 minutes. Then put the bag in a colander on the pot. Sparged with one quart of 170 degree water. (I hope I understand correctly that yo use one quart per 2 lbs grain, hence the one quart sparge.) It only took about 5 minutes or so to rinse, and I wonder if that was the problem. Then I let the remaining water drip out, shook the grain bag a bit to get out any other water, then added five lbs Pale LME. The rest proceeded like an extract recipe.
My projected OG was 1.044. My actual OG was 1.32. Pitched Wyeast 2565. After 14 days I'm at 1.014, a whopping 2.4% beer. The flavor's there, but I really missed the mark with my gravity numbers.
2 lbs. Kolsch malt grains (premixed by AHS). Steeped between 152 and 155 for 45 minutes. Then put the bag in a colander on the pot. Sparged with one quart of 170 degree water. (I hope I understand correctly that yo use one quart per 2 lbs grain, hence the one quart sparge.) It only took about 5 minutes or so to rinse, and I wonder if that was the problem. Then I let the remaining water drip out, shook the grain bag a bit to get out any other water, then added five lbs Pale LME. The rest proceeded like an extract recipe.
My projected OG was 1.044. My actual OG was 1.32. Pitched Wyeast 2565. After 14 days I'm at 1.014, a whopping 2.4% beer. The flavor's there, but I really missed the mark with my gravity numbers.