Deebee
Well-Known Member
Ihope by me sharing my extremely nasty brew evening i might gain some more help from those that are far better and far more experienced than I.
I had initially thought of doing the brew in several stages as per an earlier thread mashing and sparging on one day, and boiling the next ..........
But the mrs went to bed really early, the kids behaved and i thought why not, Brew time!!
The recipe is a Bitter and twisted clone from Paul at barley bottom, ( Barley Bottom - Homebrew Shop, Homebrew Supplies, Hops, Grains and Sundries) and things started bitterly, and went twisted.. let me explain.
Firstly i dropped the beer Oeselsvekt destroying it... hmm i thought , this could be a problem when coming to measure the OG....
The mash went really well. Hit temperatures and had almost no drop off during the mash time. First wort was recycled for 4 liters then was nice and clear so away i went. it was however running slowly!
The brew length for this is 23 liters and the boil should be for 25... everything was going well until i hit 19 liters and then everything stopped, completely, not a drop from the mash tun dispite there being water there. 25 miniutes it stayed like that and still nothing
Time was getting on, and i am up at 0430 so bed was needed.... so i reverted back to the thread ( link above) heated the wort to 80 degrees held it for 15 minutes and then gently transferred it into the santitsed FV, sealed it up and left it.
So here is the dilema.
I have 6 liters too little wort, and the only measurement equipment i have is a " combined wine and beer oeselsvekt" this starts in a black zone ( for wine) at 15 and comes down in 5 unit increments until it hits 0 from here it it moves into a white zone ( they say for beer) and increases in 10 unit increments until it shows 120
My question here is is this acually ok, i mean is the 0 mark really 1000 and then 10 unit increments ( so 1010 to 1120) if so i have one less thing to worry about. Does anyone know?
Secondly if this does indeed prove to be ok, and the OG is ( expectedly extremely high) is diluting it with boiled water in the boiler an ok thing to do in order to dilute it? If so should i add liter for liter and measure at each stage? i imagine the OG should not be the same pre boil as post, so what should i aim at ( The recipe says expected OG is 1047)
Lastly if i add water and the OG goes under the target, is there a ration of grams sugar pr point gravity i would need to add into the boil in order to bring the OG up.
At present this would likely be a really high ABV beer, and it is not intended to be so and to be honest i want something at around the 4.5 % mark which is what this recipe should be.
I'm boiling at around 5 pm this evening so any help would be great.
I am most interested about the OG measurer though, if i can use the one i have then thats great ( there are no hb shops within 250 miles of me here !)
This was not a good brew day, and the name of the beer is how i feel the evening went.
Can someone help me save the brew please? I am panicing slightly very much here!
Thanks
I had initially thought of doing the brew in several stages as per an earlier thread mashing and sparging on one day, and boiling the next ..........
But the mrs went to bed really early, the kids behaved and i thought why not, Brew time!!
The recipe is a Bitter and twisted clone from Paul at barley bottom, ( Barley Bottom - Homebrew Shop, Homebrew Supplies, Hops, Grains and Sundries) and things started bitterly, and went twisted.. let me explain.
Firstly i dropped the beer Oeselsvekt destroying it... hmm i thought , this could be a problem when coming to measure the OG....
The mash went really well. Hit temperatures and had almost no drop off during the mash time. First wort was recycled for 4 liters then was nice and clear so away i went. it was however running slowly!
The brew length for this is 23 liters and the boil should be for 25... everything was going well until i hit 19 liters and then everything stopped, completely, not a drop from the mash tun dispite there being water there. 25 miniutes it stayed like that and still nothing
Time was getting on, and i am up at 0430 so bed was needed.... so i reverted back to the thread ( link above) heated the wort to 80 degrees held it for 15 minutes and then gently transferred it into the santitsed FV, sealed it up and left it.
So here is the dilema.
I have 6 liters too little wort, and the only measurement equipment i have is a " combined wine and beer oeselsvekt" this starts in a black zone ( for wine) at 15 and comes down in 5 unit increments until it hits 0 from here it it moves into a white zone ( they say for beer) and increases in 10 unit increments until it shows 120
My question here is is this acually ok, i mean is the 0 mark really 1000 and then 10 unit increments ( so 1010 to 1120) if so i have one less thing to worry about. Does anyone know?
Secondly if this does indeed prove to be ok, and the OG is ( expectedly extremely high) is diluting it with boiled water in the boiler an ok thing to do in order to dilute it? If so should i add liter for liter and measure at each stage? i imagine the OG should not be the same pre boil as post, so what should i aim at ( The recipe says expected OG is 1047)
Lastly if i add water and the OG goes under the target, is there a ration of grams sugar pr point gravity i would need to add into the boil in order to bring the OG up.
At present this would likely be a really high ABV beer, and it is not intended to be so and to be honest i want something at around the 4.5 % mark which is what this recipe should be.
I'm boiling at around 5 pm this evening so any help would be great.
I am most interested about the OG measurer though, if i can use the one i have then thats great ( there are no hb shops within 250 miles of me here !)
This was not a good brew day, and the name of the beer is how i feel the evening went.
Can someone help me save the brew please? I am panicing slightly very much here!
Thanks