thomrenault
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Hello everyone,
I am getting ready to bottle my second batch. It's been in the primary for about 4 weeks now, and the initial gravity was 1.028. I used four pounds of liquid malt (pre-hopped) extract, two pounds of crystal malt steeped in hot but not boiling water for 60 minutes (I didn't sparge though, as I didn't know what that was at the time), I also added 2.2 lbs of cooper's 'brew enhancer 1' which is a mix of dextrose and maltodextrin, I also added 1 cup of honey to the batch and hops. After I removed the grains, I added the extract and other fermentable sugars/hops/and boiled for 1 hour. The beer has finished out at 1.01, which according to the formulas I found here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/calculating-abv-179382/ is about 2.35 abv. The beer tastes great, but I can't believe that it has such a low alcohol content. Did I just mess up with my initial gravity reading?
I am getting ready to bottle my second batch. It's been in the primary for about 4 weeks now, and the initial gravity was 1.028. I used four pounds of liquid malt (pre-hopped) extract, two pounds of crystal malt steeped in hot but not boiling water for 60 minutes (I didn't sparge though, as I didn't know what that was at the time), I also added 2.2 lbs of cooper's 'brew enhancer 1' which is a mix of dextrose and maltodextrin, I also added 1 cup of honey to the batch and hops. After I removed the grains, I added the extract and other fermentable sugars/hops/and boiled for 1 hour. The beer has finished out at 1.01, which according to the formulas I found here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/calculating-abv-179382/ is about 2.35 abv. The beer tastes great, but I can't believe that it has such a low alcohol content. Did I just mess up with my initial gravity reading?