pmcquillen
New Member
I just made a Strong Brown Belgium and I use Beersmith. Everything was right on the mark and I started the 90 minute boil with a pre-boil gravity of 1.074. Exactly what Beersmith had estimated. But after the boil I had 6.25 gallons with an OG of 1.085. Beersmith estimated it should be 1.095. That sounds about where it should have been. All hydrometer readings were corrected for temperature and all were taken with the same hydrometer. And the FG came in at 1.012, exactly as expected. Why was the OG so low?