megavites
Well-Known Member
So I brewed a Belgium pale ale today,
Doughed in and hit my target temp (152) for 60 min. Mashed out using slightly higher temps to get grain bed to 170, check. Now, my notes say
1.040 @135=1.055. I check 3 times and got within a point of that number.
After boil I ended up with 1.052??
The only thing I can think of is that I measued the OG before I got to
full volume, ie it was diluted further. But I'm sure I took a sample just before boil and corrected for temp to get my OG. Not sure what happened here. I'm confident of my calibrated digital thermo, so that's not it.
In the end it, the SG was to be 1.053 so It's right where I wanted it but just trying to figure out what happened. (BTW, I was not drinking today)
Doughed in and hit my target temp (152) for 60 min. Mashed out using slightly higher temps to get grain bed to 170, check. Now, my notes say
1.040 @135=1.055. I check 3 times and got within a point of that number.
After boil I ended up with 1.052??
The only thing I can think of is that I measued the OG before I got to
full volume, ie it was diluted further. But I'm sure I took a sample just before boil and corrected for temp to get my OG. Not sure what happened here. I'm confident of my calibrated digital thermo, so that's not it.
In the end it, the SG was to be 1.053 so It's right where I wanted it but just trying to figure out what happened. (BTW, I was not drinking today)