Brutus Brewer
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Completed my second all grain this afternoon using Edwort's Haus Pale Ale recipe. For the most part everything went really well with only one glaring screw-up. In past brews I have lost quite a bit of wort to evaporation so this time I collected 8.5 gallons of wort for boil in hopes of hitting 5.5 gallons at the end of the boil. After the boil and filling my fermenter I had roughly 1.4 gallons left in the pot, which means I lost about 1.6 gallons to evaporation. Unfortunately my OG was 1.037 and I'm not quite sure what the finished product will taste like. I'm guessing kind of watery and hoppy, but don't really know. I think that in future brews I will have a better handle on the process and a better chance of hitting my gravity numbers.
I saved the remaining 1.4 gallons of wort and am trying to figure out what to do with it. The only thing I can think to do is mix it with a can of John Bull hopped LME that was given to me by a friend who isn't going to use it. Any other ideas?
I saved the remaining 1.4 gallons of wort and am trying to figure out what to do with it. The only thing I can think to do is mix it with a can of John Bull hopped LME that was given to me by a friend who isn't going to use it. Any other ideas?