It's true.
So I brew a super easy Hefeweisen from the SCBS (Salt City Brew Supply).
Finish it off & notice my starting gravity is only 1.032 (I'll spare you the french word to the right side of that)
I used two 2.5 gallon containers of water & then a 1 gallon, then two 16.9 oz bottles to account for the evaporation. Poured it into my 6.x G carboy.
I wanted to make a lighter beer, but maybe not this light.
Recommendations?
Here's my notes if anybody's interested:
batch 6, Hefeweizen from SCBS. 7# wheat LME, 1 oz Hallertau hops (.75 @ start, .25 @ 30 of 60 min boil).
6:58 pm: start wort chiller direct from boil - just kept it on the stove & started pump.
7:01 pm: 150+F
7:04 pm: 125+F
7:08 - 115F - finished draining sink completely, refilled w/ cold, threw in full tub of ice from my icemaker
7:13 pm 60+ degrees F- Too Cold!
Added 2 16.9 oz bottles of arrow head water, temp strip showed 78+F, pitched yeast dry (poured it into funnel & washed it down with these two bottles).
7:36pm on my dresser w/ blowoff tube. 76F
Awe **** - used 6 gal water - 1.032 FG F**k!
OG was supposed to be 1.050, FG I'm supposed to look for is <correction->1.015 according to the instructions.
So I brew a super easy Hefeweisen from the SCBS (Salt City Brew Supply).
Finish it off & notice my starting gravity is only 1.032 (I'll spare you the french word to the right side of that)
I used two 2.5 gallon containers of water & then a 1 gallon, then two 16.9 oz bottles to account for the evaporation. Poured it into my 6.x G carboy.
I wanted to make a lighter beer, but maybe not this light.
Recommendations?
Here's my notes if anybody's interested:
batch 6, Hefeweizen from SCBS. 7# wheat LME, 1 oz Hallertau hops (.75 @ start, .25 @ 30 of 60 min boil).
6:58 pm: start wort chiller direct from boil - just kept it on the stove & started pump.
7:01 pm: 150+F
7:04 pm: 125+F
7:08 - 115F - finished draining sink completely, refilled w/ cold, threw in full tub of ice from my icemaker
7:13 pm 60+ degrees F- Too Cold!
Added 2 16.9 oz bottles of arrow head water, temp strip showed 78+F, pitched yeast dry (poured it into funnel & washed it down with these two bottles).
7:36pm on my dresser w/ blowoff tube. 76F
Awe **** - used 6 gal water - 1.032 FG F**k!
OG was supposed to be 1.050, FG I'm supposed to look for is <correction->1.015 according to the instructions.