aaronius79
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Hi fellow brewers, I am trying to figure out something regarding my current gravity reading. I am 9 days into fermentation. Here is what I did...
Grain bill
6 gallon batch...
8 lbs smoked malt
4 lbs munich
1 lb cararoma
.5 lb chocolate malt
1lb corn sugar
BIAB method. Mashed at 160 for 60 minutes and then did a "sparge" pouring 2 gallons of 170 degree water evenly and slowly over the grains after straining them.
1 oz hallertau hops at 60 minutes
1 oz hallertau hops at 30 minutes
whirlfloc tablet at 10 minutes
Projected OG was 16 brix.. my true OG was 16 brix
I'm 9 days into fermentation.. It started about 12 hours after pitching (pitched at 68 degrees) and strong fermentation for about 3 days and then slowed down at about day 4-5 and shows pretty much llittle to no activity at this point. I just did a gravity reading and its at 10 brix. corrected for alcohol comes to 1.023 gravity
1)SHould I expect this number to come down to like 1.020 or is this thing done at 1.023?
2) the beer recipe calculator predicted a final gravity closer to 1.014. How come I'm so far off? I know a higher mash produces less fermentable sugars but I didn't calculate it being that much of an impact.
3) Do I have a stalled fermentation? temps have been between 64-67 degrees the whole time.
All in all the beer at this point tastes pretty darn good but I was expecting an ABV closer to 7% but looks like its more like ~5.7%
Grain bill
6 gallon batch...
8 lbs smoked malt
4 lbs munich
1 lb cararoma
.5 lb chocolate malt
1lb corn sugar
BIAB method. Mashed at 160 for 60 minutes and then did a "sparge" pouring 2 gallons of 170 degree water evenly and slowly over the grains after straining them.
1 oz hallertau hops at 60 minutes
1 oz hallertau hops at 30 minutes
whirlfloc tablet at 10 minutes
Projected OG was 16 brix.. my true OG was 16 brix
I'm 9 days into fermentation.. It started about 12 hours after pitching (pitched at 68 degrees) and strong fermentation for about 3 days and then slowed down at about day 4-5 and shows pretty much llittle to no activity at this point. I just did a gravity reading and its at 10 brix. corrected for alcohol comes to 1.023 gravity
1)SHould I expect this number to come down to like 1.020 or is this thing done at 1.023?
2) the beer recipe calculator predicted a final gravity closer to 1.014. How come I'm so far off? I know a higher mash produces less fermentable sugars but I didn't calculate it being that much of an impact.
3) Do I have a stalled fermentation? temps have been between 64-67 degrees the whole time.
All in all the beer at this point tastes pretty darn good but I was expecting an ABV closer to 7% but looks like its more like ~5.7%