help upping my gravity

[Blackhawkbrew]

I brewed a gluten free stout this afternoon and my starting gravity was only 1.025! Is there a way to increase the gravity? By the way, it's already in the fermentation bucket.

 

[Bizoune]

I think you a bit late for that now. Maybe adding more grain next time or getting some software to determine your boil gravity. Not sure what happened because 1025 seems really low. If you've got wort in your kettle and you know that you've got a low gravity, you could always add some DME and then adjust you hop schedule for the remaining 60minutes. Never done a gluten free beer though.

 

[pacebrew]

dextrose...

 

[Blackhawkbrew]

Please elaborate pacebrew.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Dextose is not the answer. Yes, it will raise your OG, but it will be fully fermented into alcohol, the beer will still be light-bodied. I don't know much about gluten-free beers, but the only thing you could do is add some malt fermentables diluted in as little water as possible. This will raise the total quantity of fermentables in your fermentro without actually raising the volume much, thus you can achieve the gravity correction you want.

 

[pacebrew]

But if those are notgluten free your not doing him any favors...

 

[ksbrain]

I guess you'd have to make a very low volume, very high density wort and add it to the main fermenter.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

I guess you'd have to make a very low volume, very high density wort and add it to the main fermenter.

That's what I'm talking about too. Of course he'll be using the same gluten-free materials he used for the original wort, the final beer being, consequently, gluten-free.

 

[pacebrew]

If you want to dilute and mash your own stuff... Maybe you could do an ultra concentrated wort at high mash temp...

 

[SwampassJ]

I brewed a gluten free stout this afternoon and my starting gravity was only 1.025! Is there a way to increase the gravity? By the way, it's already in the fermentation bucket.

Did you do extract by any chance? Could be stratification of heavy wort vs top up water.

 

[Tom]

What was your recipe?
You can find sorghum syrup at your local HBS or food store.

 

[Lcasanova]

What was your recipe?
You can find sorghum syrup at your local HBS or food store.

Don't use the sorghum syrup from a food store, it isn't the same. I like some of the ideas on here though, maybe you could boil some water and sorghum syrup for at least 15 min, cool and add to the fermenting wort or do those sugar additions....even though it was a chestnut brew... just a thought