Recent content by Steinfiller

I just sent you a PM. We can definitely work something out.

I am sorry about posting earlier and not introducing first. Well here it is. Just got into brewing recently. I was up in Rhode Island for a wedding and got there a little early for the church, drove past brewery on the way there and decided to kill two hours before the ceremony. Alway's...

Sounds good to me! :D

For the water that I used 6 gallons of purified water. I diluted the wort with 3 gallons of water mixed (maybe not good enough), aerated, and then took a SG reading. There Could have been alot of water on top and not Homogeneous mixture.

So you would suggest a SG reading before cooling wort to make sure it is right? Based on boiling time for hops does this changed flavor dramatically? Sorry NEWB to this whole process!

It is a 5 gallon batch. It has been in the fermentor for almost three day's now and looking prety good. I think I would rather wait until fermenting slows and take another reading to see what has changed.

If I did misread the hydrometer? Although I placed sample in long glass and read at eye level. What would a low sg mean? Not enough sugars in the wort?

Well since it was my first it was a recipe kit with all the crushed grain, extracts and hops pre-measured. Recipe - 12 oz Crushed Crystal 60L 1 oz Black Patent 3.3 lbs Muntons Amber Malt Extract 3.3 lbs Light Malt Extract 1 oz Cluster Bittering Hops 1/2 oz Hallertau...

It was at 72 degrees but I am not home right now to check the correction on the hydrometer. I do not think that .035 would be correction for that temperature. I will have to post this later. Sorry, its a German Altbier recipe.

So it was my first time brewing and everything seemed to be going fine until I took my initial sp gr reading. Supposed to be anywhere forom 1.05 to 1.06 but my reading was 1.015? What exactly does this mean? Boiled too long? :(