dummkauf
Well-Known Member
So I just made my first 5 gallons of Ed's Apfelwein, but I forgot to get a gravity reading before pitching the yeast. Now after I pitched the yeast, I shook the carboy up a bit and the top 1/4 to 1/2 or so got cloudy, and the bottom stayed looking like apple juice. About 30 min later I started punching it into BeerSmith and realized I needed to get an OG, so I went and took it. The sample was cloudy from the top and read in at 1.060, which is a few points short of what beersmith and Ed's recipe predicted. Is it possible that the yeast in the cloudy top already started fermenting the sugars within 30 min throwing off my reading, or is that truly my OG?
Recipe was 2Lbs of corn sugar and then Apple Juice to the 5 gallon mark(just shy of a full 5 gallons of juice). The apple juice alone has a gravity of 1.046. The OG according to Ed should be 1.066, which it's possible I have less sugar in my juice than Ed, but you never know.
Thoughts?
Recipe was 2Lbs of corn sugar and then Apple Juice to the 5 gallon mark(just shy of a full 5 gallons of juice). The apple juice alone has a gravity of 1.046. The OG according to Ed should be 1.066, which it's possible I have less sugar in my juice than Ed, but you never know.
Thoughts?