stooges56
Active Member
I just brewed a brown ale and my OG is off from what beer calculus said it should be. I first steeped 1lb crystal malt 60L, 1/2 lb crystal malt 40L, and 1/2lb chocolate malt in 160F 1.5 gallons water for 30 minutes. I then added 4lbs pale liquid malt extract, 1 cup brown sugar and 1.5 gallons water. Boiled it for 50 minutes with hop additions then added another 4lb pale liquid malt extract for the last 10 minutes. I cooled it to 60F and then added water to bring it up to 5 gallons in the fermentor. Beer calculus said it should be 1.072 but I got 1.042. Any suggestions as to why? Did I do something wrong? Thanks for any help.