OG is off

I should have been 1.078 and I'm at 1.068 I have no extract, I used the last of it in my starter...what can I do to get it up!

 

Boil longer...

 

I was thinking that but how will that effect the hops?

 

Hard to know without knowing your hop schedule. In general, if you extend your boil you'll pull more bitterness from the hops. What's the style?

If you don't mind drying it out, you can add table sugar late in the boil to pull up the gravity.

 

It's a rye IPA

 

Well, for my tastes I like my IPAs crazy bitter. So a longer boil wouldn't hurt it as far as I'm concerned... Additionally, I like my IPAs bone dry, so table sugar is an option as well. Just depends on your taste.

A 1.068 IPA is nothing to scoff at either so you could just let it roll with the OG you have now! So many options!!

 

I added two cups of sugar it took it up to 1.074 good enough!

 

Nice, keep us posted on how it turns out!

 

Will do. I have a 5 gallon mash tun, this brew used 15 pounds of grains. I think the mash temp dropped too much after the grains were added. This is going to be interesting.

 

Hey, it'll be beer no matter what...never a bad thing to end up with!!

 

One week update...it started fermenting, bubbles in the air lock two hours after pitching the yeast...it is a week later the air lock is still bubbling about every 8 seconds...