Wow...OK, this is very bizarre. Anyone else get an unusually high OG with this despite brewing according to the recipe? I brewed this today following the recipe almost to a T, only changing the extract version to a partial mash. My grain bill looked like this:
60 oz. pumpkin
3 lbs 8 oz. 2-row
8 oz. biscuit malt
4 oz. flaked wheat
3 lbs light DME
1 lb. 8 oz. pilsner DME
1 oz. US Goldings 4.9%
Mashed in 2 gallons of water at 162, temp dropped to 152 with grain and I left it for 40 minutes. I put the grains in 1.5 gallons of sparge water at 160, tea bagged, and then let it sit with the cover on for 15 minutes. Boiled all 3.5 gallons of wort on the stove, lost about .5 gallons to the boil, topped up with 3 gallons water in the carboy. Hopville's calculator says I should have come in around 1.054, which is damn close to what the OG is listed as. My OG? 1.089. Anyone see something I did wrong? What in the world caused such a huge bump in gravity, and what sort of results can I expect? I put in a 1 liter starter of 1469 West Yorkshire, but if the gravity is really that high will that be enough yeast to ferment out that much sugar? I'm at a loss here.