Low OG

[Aiko]

Tried a suggestion from HBT and had interesting results.

I asked in a earlier post about getting the color of German Hefe a little lighter, and a couple of people suggested that I add 1/2 of the DME at the start of the boil and then with 20min left, add the remaining.

This is like my 5th batch of Hefe, and had no problems until I did this. When the wort was cooled and topped to 5gal, the OG was at 1.044 (usually at 1.052). My FG was good before I racked to the bottles. Don't know how it will taste but smelled good.
Anyone know why my OG would be short?
Thanks.

 

[FlyingHorse]

Virtually impossible to miss your OG on an extract batch, unless you added too much water, or not enough extract.

More likely, you didn't mix the wort and the top-off water well enough before you measured the OG.

 

[malkore]

what he said.

adding DME late in the boil has no effect on OG, only on color and hop utilization.

 

[Aiko]

Virtually impossible to miss your OG on an extract batch, unless you added too much water, or not enough extract.

More likely, you didn't mix the wort and the top-off water well enough before you measured the OG.

Tasted just fine....
Now that you mentioned it, I dont think I gave it a good mix before I took the reading. Thanks for the input.