jarnock
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I made a beer about 3 weeks ago (23 days). So It was an IPA, here is the recipe I used:
1.5lbs Crystal 10L Steeped 30 min @ 160
3x3.3lbs Coopers Liquid Malt Extract Unhopped (so 9.9 LBS)
1lb Coopers Brewcraft Dried Malt Extract
2 oz Columbus @ 60 min
1 oz Columbus @ 25 Min
1 oz Cascade @ 20 Min
1 oz Columbus @ 15 min
.5 oz Cascade at 10
.5 oz Cascade at 5 min
2 oz Palisade at flame out
Used White Labs California Ale Yeast, re hydrated the yeast and pitched at around 80, brought the temp down to 70 and everything went fine.
Gravity before I pitched the yeast was at 1.071.
Fast forward to today and I went to bottle and FG was around 1.020. So I preceded to continue to bottle, but I got kind of scared of bottle bombs so I bottled half and dumped the rest.
I think my hydrometer might have been a little off, cause it registers water at a little 0.097. My thought is that my beer actually finished at a Specific Gravity of 1.017. Either way, it gives me a ABV of 6.69% or 7%.
Does anyone have experience with Coopers Unhopped Light LME finishing a bit high? I.E. does it naturally finish a bit higher than 1.010?
I'm really worried about bottle bombs and safety, so I went ahead on the safe side and dumped half, put the other half in bottles in a box in the garage.
Thank you for your time ladies and gentlemen.
/Jarnock
I made a beer about 3 weeks ago (23 days). So It was an IPA, here is the recipe I used:
1.5lbs Crystal 10L Steeped 30 min @ 160
3x3.3lbs Coopers Liquid Malt Extract Unhopped (so 9.9 LBS)
1lb Coopers Brewcraft Dried Malt Extract
2 oz Columbus @ 60 min
1 oz Columbus @ 25 Min
1 oz Cascade @ 20 Min
1 oz Columbus @ 15 min
.5 oz Cascade at 10
.5 oz Cascade at 5 min
2 oz Palisade at flame out
Used White Labs California Ale Yeast, re hydrated the yeast and pitched at around 80, brought the temp down to 70 and everything went fine.
Gravity before I pitched the yeast was at 1.071.
Fast forward to today and I went to bottle and FG was around 1.020. So I preceded to continue to bottle, but I got kind of scared of bottle bombs so I bottled half and dumped the rest.
I think my hydrometer might have been a little off, cause it registers water at a little 0.097. My thought is that my beer actually finished at a Specific Gravity of 1.017. Either way, it gives me a ABV of 6.69% or 7%.
Does anyone have experience with Coopers Unhopped Light LME finishing a bit high? I.E. does it naturally finish a bit higher than 1.010?
I'm really worried about bottle bombs and safety, so I went ahead on the safe side and dumped half, put the other half in bottles in a box in the garage.
Thank you for your time ladies and gentlemen.
/Jarnock