Disaster Gold Blonde Ale

[Cisteve]

I planned on brewing a blonde ale as an intro beer for friends and I completely miscalculated my water volumes and ended up with a very low OG.

I added table sugar and honey to the fermenter and reached my estimated OG

I figure the finished beer is either gonna be half way decent or good. I'm thinking about dry hopping 5 gallons of it.

I'm really curious to see how this screw up turns out.

 

[Cisteve]

I planned on brewing a blonde ale as an intro beer for friends and I completely miscalculated my water volumes and ended up with a very low OG.

I added table sugar and honey to the fermenter and reached my estimated OG

I figure the finished beer is either gonna be half way decent or good. I'm thinking about dry hopping 5 gallons of it.

I'm really curious to see how this screw up turns out.

Disaster gold batch:001
Brew day April 1st Monday 2013
10 gallon batch
19lbs us 2row, 1lbs crystal 10l
2oz east kent Golding us (60 min.)
2 package 001 Cali yeast, 1L starter 8oz ldme
Mash in:*
3 gallons 155**
Mash temp: 140*-142*
Time: 20mins
Sparge: *
7.5 gallons 165**
Sparge temp: 148*
Time: *est75 minutes, act 90min
Reading @49min: 145*-147*
Mash out:
1 gallon
Temp: 170*

Boil:
Start 2:06 end 3:06
60 minutes
60 east kent us 2oz
Pinch of Irish mosh 5min

Post boil gravity: 1.088
Post boil volume: 4 gallons

Fermenting:
Added 6gallon of water and 1L starter
10.26 gallons total
FG: 1.028
Boiled 1quart water with 1lb table sugar, and added to fermentor
FG: 1.036

April 2nd*
1 day into fermenting, high krausen
Boiled 1 gallon of water and added 1.5lbs of honey
Before honey FG: 1.012
After honey FG: 1.022

Corrected OG: 1.046
Estimated FG: 1.008
Estimated ABV: 5.0%