Driftwood
Well-Known Member
Ok, maybe not that big an emergency, but help would be appreciated...
I finally got around to the Sleeman Steam Beer clone I wanted to make from Clone Brews book. Recipe was as follows:
6lbs lager malt
12 oz caparils
1lb flaked rice
4aau Mt.Hood for 45 min
4aaus hallertau for 15 min
Use 2.5 gal for mash, then 3 gal for sparge, boil down to get a 5 gal batch.
Well, I wanted to make a little more than 5 gal, so I increased everything by 15%. Problem was, I ran out of milled lager malt, only had a little over 5lbs, and I needed almost 7. So I added 2 lbs of some poorly milled-by-hand malt, and mashed for 2 hours instead of 90 min, hoping this would help.
Well, looking in my fermentor, I seemed to have boiled down to about 4.5 gal, much less than the 5.75 I was targetting. And even at this reduced volume, the OG is only 1.036, target was 1.048...
Without actually going to my HBS to mill some more malt, what can I do? I've got about a pound of DME. I'm thinking of adding about a gallon of water and the DME, but not sure what that'll do to my OG. Any Promash people do a quick calc for me and tell me if this will cut it?
(sigh) Or do I have to go get more? How much more DME do I need to fix this?
Thanks...
I finally got around to the Sleeman Steam Beer clone I wanted to make from Clone Brews book. Recipe was as follows:
6lbs lager malt
12 oz caparils
1lb flaked rice
4aau Mt.Hood for 45 min
4aaus hallertau for 15 min
Use 2.5 gal for mash, then 3 gal for sparge, boil down to get a 5 gal batch.
Well, I wanted to make a little more than 5 gal, so I increased everything by 15%. Problem was, I ran out of milled lager malt, only had a little over 5lbs, and I needed almost 7. So I added 2 lbs of some poorly milled-by-hand malt, and mashed for 2 hours instead of 90 min, hoping this would help.
Well, looking in my fermentor, I seemed to have boiled down to about 4.5 gal, much less than the 5.75 I was targetting. And even at this reduced volume, the OG is only 1.036, target was 1.048...
Without actually going to my HBS to mill some more malt, what can I do? I've got about a pound of DME. I'm thinking of adding about a gallon of water and the DME, but not sure what that'll do to my OG. Any Promash people do a quick calc for me and tell me if this will cut it?
(sigh) Or do I have to go get more? How much more DME do I need to fix this?
Thanks...