My experience with bottling is let it go for at least 8 weeks. I have tried rushing my brews and the results were varied but overall I find carbonation and flavors don't stablize untill then, especially when doing fruit beers or in this case the coconut.
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Yea, I think I just need to slow it down. All the things you mentioned I pretty much did except I think I only spent about 30 min. from start to finish. I also need to take gravity readings at different times of the process.
Do you sprinkle over the whole grain bed or do you just keep adding water slowly to keep the water level where you want it? I found if I try to sprinkle the entire grain bed I end up adding too much water. If I slow it down I don't get coverage over the grain bed. Not sure how much this matters.
Brew went well but I was a bit disappointed with the O.G. The O.G. was supposed to be 1.048 but turned out to be 1.034 so it is gonna be a light beer. The only difference I made was I switched from batch sparging to continuous sparging. I don't have a handle on how to do this and get the...