Anyone ever run into a really low final gravity? I brewed a single malt, single hop...
10.5 pounds of vienna malt
3 oz of centennial(1 oz @ 60 min, 1 oz @ 10 min and 1 oz @ 2 min)
one packet of dry Safale us-05.
I mashed at 152 for 60min, in a keggle wrapped in insulation wrap... it dropped to 149 at the end of 60min. I sparged, had it get stuck and had to scoop a bunch of grain into a bucket to clear the jam in my pickup tube...
I forget the volumes of water, it was for a 5 gallon batch, accounting for 2.25 gallons of boil off(i use a keggle and its a cloud maker) My final volume was 5.75 gallons(1.045) I was shooting for 1.060.
I fermented since jan 17th in a 64-68 degree range. I took a reading today, before going to secondary to cold crash it, and i'm at 1.003 ish on a hyrdometer. Has anyone got an explanation as to how it got this low?? I was thinking it would be in the 1.014 range.
It doesn't have any off flavors that I could tell, obviously being green and uncarbonated... nothing growing in my fermenter...
10.5 pounds of vienna malt
3 oz of centennial(1 oz @ 60 min, 1 oz @ 10 min and 1 oz @ 2 min)
one packet of dry Safale us-05.
I mashed at 152 for 60min, in a keggle wrapped in insulation wrap... it dropped to 149 at the end of 60min. I sparged, had it get stuck and had to scoop a bunch of grain into a bucket to clear the jam in my pickup tube...
I forget the volumes of water, it was for a 5 gallon batch, accounting for 2.25 gallons of boil off(i use a keggle and its a cloud maker) My final volume was 5.75 gallons(1.045) I was shooting for 1.060.
I fermented since jan 17th in a 64-68 degree range. I took a reading today, before going to secondary to cold crash it, and i'm at 1.003 ish on a hyrdometer. Has anyone got an explanation as to how it got this low?? I was thinking it would be in the 1.014 range.
It doesn't have any off flavors that I could tell, obviously being green and uncarbonated... nothing growing in my fermenter...