skeaterbait
Well-Known Member
In Jan of last year I bought and extract kit for an Irish Red, I only brewed half of it with intent to finish it up in a couple weeks. At the time I did not realize that I would be buying a house and moving, forcing the second half to wait till now. The hops and yeast have lived in the fridge the entire time but the DME and grains have been in a plethora of conditions.
Last night as I was digging out my equipment to brew some recently purchased stuff I came across the IR ingredients. The DME was like a brick but broke up nicely and the sealed bag for the grains was no longer sealed. Still smelled nice though.
Short story longer I decided to brew it anyway just to see how it turns out. Here is the curious part, because I over estimated the veracity of the boil I ended up with 3 gallons instead of the targeted 2.5 but my gravity ended up at 1.052 where the recipe aimed at approximately 1.049.
Granted that's not a huge overshoot but with the grains being old and having added too much water, why would I have ended up over the target gravity?
Last night as I was digging out my equipment to brew some recently purchased stuff I came across the IR ingredients. The DME was like a brick but broke up nicely and the sealed bag for the grains was no longer sealed. Still smelled nice though.
Short story longer I decided to brew it anyway just to see how it turns out. Here is the curious part, because I over estimated the veracity of the boil I ended up with 3 gallons instead of the targeted 2.5 but my gravity ended up at 1.052 where the recipe aimed at approximately 1.049.
Granted that's not a huge overshoot but with the grains being old and having added too much water, why would I have ended up over the target gravity?