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Daver77

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I doubt the beer I made today will be any good but I'll see it through to the end. :(

Made a Brown ale today when I punched in the numbers on beer calculus it gave me an estimated OG of 1.057 I was using all mutons light dme with some specialty grains steeped.

when I take my reading it say's 1.067 and I didn't even boil down to to the 5 gallons I had like 5 and a half.

So a buddy of mine punched my recipe in promash with 5.5gal of wort (which I know now I need to get) and he gets 1.067 on the nose.

Lesson #1 learned buy promash

Lesson #2 Put on air lock before sealing bucket lid to avoid gromet slipping off.

I had to sanitize a spoon and fish out the gromet after I had already fished out the yeast.

A couple of tries, because the spoon wasn't long enough I had no choice but to sanitize my whole arm and fish it out with my hands.

If this beer even comes out remotely ok I would consider myself lucky.

This is my 8th batch and I never really had trouble with previous batches.

this is the recipe I made on beer calculus


% LB OZ
74% 6 0 Muntons Light Dry Malt Extract
12% 1 0 Muntons Amber DME
6% 0 8 Crystal 60L
5% 0 6 Chocolate Malt (UK)
3% 0 4 Malto-Dextrin
boil 60 mins 1.0oz Willamette pellet 4.7
boil 15 mins 1.0oz Goldings, East Kent pellet 4.5

Safale S-04 Dry Yeast

Original Gravity
1.067

I'm afraid I didn't really adjust the recipe for such a high OG and then I had to stick my arm in the wort.

ON a good note my home made wort chiller worked great. 15 min I had beer at 65!

Do you guys think I'll get lucky?
 
Wow...you can have a lot of fun coming up with a name for this one.
Taste it on bottling / kegging day. If it tastes like ass straight outta the fermenter (i.e. incredibly sour) then it probably didn't survive the arm attack. If not, I'd guess that the yeast got a hold of it before the bacteria and you're A-OK. Good luck; if it turns out you'll remember this batch fondly forever.
 
LOL, yeah maybe you guys can help me name it:D

IN about 11 hours it started to bubble and by 12 I switched it to a blow off tube as a precaution because I filled it up top didn't have a lot of air space.

In about 3 weeks I'll take a reading and drink the sample. I'll keep updating the thread.:rockin:
 
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