first brew?

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This is my first batch,it has been inn the primary for 2 weeks. starting og 1.102 right now it is at 1.015. My question is are the floaters normal? Used Safeale-05

 

[gcdowd]

Wow man, you went big for your first brew. Looks completely normal, just floating yeast rafts.

 

[Atonk]

No kidding - 1.1for a first batch?! alright ... looks good

 

[Zalf]

Yeah with the abv you have in that brew I wouldn't worry about the beer if any infection managed to grow I would worry about how to kill the monster that was going to come crawling out.

 

[unionrdr]

Lol,attack of the 50 foot beermuncher! And yeah,that looks good to go. Good FG for a beer that high on OG.

 

[TarVolon]

I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence, but. . .

Did you take the specific gravity of the wort from the boil pot or did you wait until after you topped off?

My first OG of 1.085 was really more like 1.050

 

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I took the og after I toped off to 5.5 gallons.It was a 3 gallon boil. I just moved to the secondary after 4 weeks and there was almost a gallon worth of yeast cake? I did double pitch. This is supposed to be an extract hopslam clone from my local home brew store. I love big IPA's and hope it turns out. I dont really care if its not an exact clone just so its tasty,here is my recipe.

1 lb – crystal 20L
7 lb – Light LME
2 lb – Light DME
1 lb – Corn Sugar
3 lb – Honey
.5lb – Malto Dextrin

1oz – Casecade (bittering 60 min)
1oz – Centennial ( last 25 min)
1oz – Amarillo (last 15 min)
1tp – Irish Moss (last 10 min)
1oz – Centennial (last 10min)
.5oz- Amarillo (last 10 min)
1oz – Centennial (last 5 min)

American Ale yeast

2oz – Casecade (dry hop)
.5oz- Amarillo (dry hop)