I think I messed up the Hefe recipe I was using. I put it into WORT app on my phone and it had the OG too low as it was calling for 7.5lbs of LME and LME is only available near me in 3.3lbs batches, so i did 6.6lbs of LME and added 2 lbs of DME.
The recipe called for replacing all grains with extract and here I am thinking I can outsmart it so I took what they had as 8oz of melanoidin malt for the AG and I used it to steep but instead I use 1lbs.
The recipe I did was as follows
1lb of melanoidin malt (steeping)
6.6 lbs of Wheat Liquid Extract
2 lbs of wheat dry extract
.7 oz of Golding East Kent Hops @ 60 mins
1 package of Weihenstephan Weizen 3068
Half the extract at flame out and let sit for 10 mins
I did a boil with 4G and then topped up to 5.5G after chilling.
WORT says I should have ended up at 1.046 but my OG after lots of mixing was 1.054 and my colour looks way darker than it should be. I realized the mistake on the melanoidin but I'm not sure why my OG is still that far off when all the ingredients were entered into WORT, wondering if it just doesn't calculate it correctly?
Oh well it will be beer but I wonder what it will be like?
The recipe called for replacing all grains with extract and here I am thinking I can outsmart it so I took what they had as 8oz of melanoidin malt for the AG and I used it to steep but instead I use 1lbs.
The recipe I did was as follows
1lb of melanoidin malt (steeping)
6.6 lbs of Wheat Liquid Extract
2 lbs of wheat dry extract
.7 oz of Golding East Kent Hops @ 60 mins
1 package of Weihenstephan Weizen 3068
Half the extract at flame out and let sit for 10 mins
I did a boil with 4G and then topped up to 5.5G after chilling.
WORT says I should have ended up at 1.046 but my OG after lots of mixing was 1.054 and my colour looks way darker than it should be. I realized the mistake on the melanoidin but I'm not sure why my OG is still that far off when all the ingredients were entered into WORT, wondering if it just doesn't calculate it correctly?
Oh well it will be beer but I wonder what it will be like?