Bartmannj
Active Member
Hello,
I recently bottled my latest batch and was somewhat confused by the numbers from my pre-bottling readings. The recipe instructions said that I should expect a brew with an ABV of just over 4% (Northern Brewer's Biere de Table), but my OG was 1.051 and FG was 1.008, for an ABV of 5.6% and attenuation over 84%, way higher than the ~75%, which I expected. The temperature for both readings was ~65 degrees F. Is this weird somehow? I always work with liquid yeast and a starter, no matter what the gravity. Would this have something to do with it?
Also, I cold-crashed the beer inadvertently. I had turned off the heat in my apartment before leaving for the weekend and came back to a room temperature of ~52 degrees F. The fermentation had been over for about a week at that time, so I'm not worried about that, but half of the water in the airlock had disappeared out. Is this weird somehow?
Thanks!
I recently bottled my latest batch and was somewhat confused by the numbers from my pre-bottling readings. The recipe instructions said that I should expect a brew with an ABV of just over 4% (Northern Brewer's Biere de Table), but my OG was 1.051 and FG was 1.008, for an ABV of 5.6% and attenuation over 84%, way higher than the ~75%, which I expected. The temperature for both readings was ~65 degrees F. Is this weird somehow? I always work with liquid yeast and a starter, no matter what the gravity. Would this have something to do with it?
Also, I cold-crashed the beer inadvertently. I had turned off the heat in my apartment before leaving for the weekend and came back to a room temperature of ~52 degrees F. The fermentation had been over for about a week at that time, so I'm not worried about that, but half of the water in the airlock had disappeared out. Is this weird somehow?
Thanks!