Hello friends, again!
So, a little background to help. I live in Tunisia and there are no home brewing supply stores anywhere in the country, so everything I do as far as home brewing is from scratch. Long story short I got my hands on a 5lbs of wheat extract (60% wheat 40% barley) so I figured I d make my first ever extract brew. In the absence of malted grains I added 4 lbs of table sugar hoping to boost the OG. Also, I did a mini mash of 1 lb of flaked oats mixed 150 grams of pale malt (all I had left). Plus 1 lb of wildflower honey.
1 Oz of cascade at 60 min, 0.5 of saaz at 20, and another 0.5 of saaz at 10.
As per this app called Wort, my estimated OG should be 1063. But my actual OG was only 1042. Now exactly a week later it is at 1008.
Two problems:
Beer is too sweet for my taste and too weak as far as alcohol.
Question can I hit two birds with one stone if I brew a hop tea mixed with honey? I d like to introduce more fermentables plus add more bitterness? Can such a hop tea achieve that? Assuming the hops are high alpha, and I will be using around 500 grams of honey?
Yeast used is S 33.
Thank you so much.
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