......didn't seem to go as well as I planned. Here's the recipe I attempted earlier in the evening (yes, I'm still up because I'm trying to see what I did wrong).
Here's the recipe:
hopville.com/recipe/1684354
Cascading Falls (Smash) 2.5 gallons
4.5lbs of 2Row
4oz of carapils
4oz of crystal 60L
Mash at 153F for 60 minutes
Mash out at 168F for 10 minutes
0.5oz of cascade at 60 min
0.5oz of cascade at 20 min
0.5oz of cascade at 7 min
Safale US-05 dry yeast
* I added a half tablet of whirlflock at the same time as the last hop addition.
I usually brew with my outdoor burner, but decided to try the stove since it was a small batch. I was impressed how well the stove did considering how old it is. Anyways, I was perplexed at what my OGs were as the recipe doesn't list them. At pre-boil I had 12 Brix (160F) before starting my boil. That's, according to the corrections in my brew app, around 1.046 OG
Then after the boil was over I took another reading at the same temp as I was cooling...this time it was 19 Brix or 1.046 (150F). I also noticed I lost around 1.250 gallons. I'm pretty bummed as I think this is going to be a pretty weak beer. It didn't look pretty going into the fermenter either.......
That was after I filtered out all the trub in my funnel. Check out how much in the pic below.
I had to use a (sanitized) spoon to keep the funnel's filter from clogging.
Will this still turn out to be a decent beer? After all that trub was filtered out, it still looks mucky as hell. On another note, two of my Wyeast packs were semi-bloated. I haven't brewed in quite some time, so I have kept the yeast and hops in a very cold and dark fridge (about 40F). Should I replace the Wyeast packs? It's only two and they are both 1056. I thought about just getting two packs of US-05 to be on the safe side. Thoughts?
Here's the recipe:
hopville.com/recipe/1684354
Cascading Falls (Smash) 2.5 gallons
4.5lbs of 2Row
4oz of carapils
4oz of crystal 60L
Mash at 153F for 60 minutes
Mash out at 168F for 10 minutes
0.5oz of cascade at 60 min
0.5oz of cascade at 20 min
0.5oz of cascade at 7 min
Safale US-05 dry yeast
* I added a half tablet of whirlflock at the same time as the last hop addition.
I usually brew with my outdoor burner, but decided to try the stove since it was a small batch. I was impressed how well the stove did considering how old it is. Anyways, I was perplexed at what my OGs were as the recipe doesn't list them. At pre-boil I had 12 Brix (160F) before starting my boil. That's, according to the corrections in my brew app, around 1.046 OG
Then after the boil was over I took another reading at the same temp as I was cooling...this time it was 19 Brix or 1.046 (150F). I also noticed I lost around 1.250 gallons. I'm pretty bummed as I think this is going to be a pretty weak beer. It didn't look pretty going into the fermenter either.......
That was after I filtered out all the trub in my funnel. Check out how much in the pic below.
I had to use a (sanitized) spoon to keep the funnel's filter from clogging.
Will this still turn out to be a decent beer? After all that trub was filtered out, it still looks mucky as hell. On another note, two of my Wyeast packs were semi-bloated. I haven't brewed in quite some time, so I have kept the yeast and hops in a very cold and dark fridge (about 40F). Should I replace the Wyeast packs? It's only two and they are both 1056. I thought about just getting two packs of US-05 to be on the safe side. Thoughts?