Remos112
Well-Known Member
Hello everybody, so todat I tried to brew Revvy's Leffe Blonde clone and it didn't work out too great. I had the brilliant idea to put my Filterhex directly in the kettle to save time by not having to carry the mash to a seperate filter tank. This however had some unintended consequences. The mashing went great and the sparging went pretty good as well, although I did overshoot the water a bit so ended up with a preboil gravity of 1.040 instead of the calculated 1.047 The plan was to boil it a little longer to simple let more water vaporize, but then disaster struck. While boiling the thermostat started acting up and the kettle switch off several times. My only explanation would be the filterhex above the heating element influencing it somehow. Not much I could do here but try to finish the boil. Ended up with [email protected] instead of 20l 1.064 so quite a bit off. I cooled it to 21C and pitch 3 packs of wyeast 1762 and hoped for the best. The target ABV would be quite a bit off.
As far as I see it I have 2 options
1 Let it ride out and end up with probably a perfectly delicious beer with lower abv.
2 Add something like DME sugar honey or some other kind of fermentables.
What would you guys advice? Let it ride out, or tinker with it some bit?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Remi
As far as I see it I have 2 options
1 Let it ride out and end up with probably a perfectly delicious beer with lower abv.
2 Add something like DME sugar honey or some other kind of fermentables.
What would you guys advice? Let it ride out, or tinker with it some bit?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Remi