TheManes
Well-Known Member
So I brewed up an AHS APA today, partial mash, full boil. Everything went great, no problems, smooth all the way. I get the wort into my primary bucket and take the gravity reading and get 1.044 (adjusted). According to the AHS recipe and Beersmith I should have come out with a 1.051 OG. I didn't know what to do, pitched the yeast and it's getting under way.
I did two new things today:
1) I did a full boil
2) I brewed in my garage using my turkey fryer burner, hence the full boil.
I called AHS, and dude told me he had the same problem the first time he did a full boil outside and told me that I should have added the extract at the end of the boil, not at the beginning as per the AHS instructions. He said he got that advice here (before he got a job at AHS) and that he has not had the low OG problem doing it this way.
My questions:
1) Is this right what dude is saying?
2) Is my beer going to suck? Too bitter? Unbalanced? Thin? What?
Any advice appreciated.
Good news is I'm going AG on the next brew.
I did two new things today:
1) I did a full boil
2) I brewed in my garage using my turkey fryer burner, hence the full boil.
I called AHS, and dude told me he had the same problem the first time he did a full boil outside and told me that I should have added the extract at the end of the boil, not at the beginning as per the AHS instructions. He said he got that advice here (before he got a job at AHS) and that he has not had the low OG problem doing it this way.
My questions:
1) Is this right what dude is saying?
2) Is my beer going to suck? Too bitter? Unbalanced? Thin? What?
Any advice appreciated.
Good news is I'm going AG on the next brew.