How does this look ? Need a bit of help

[IPADrinkerCC]

This is a apa i made the repice for it came out a bit dark but i believe that is because i let it slowly come down to temp.its in secondary right now dry hopping with citra and Amarillo pellets. Taste great when i moved it but i have to check the fg this friday to see where it is at it was high last friday after 7 das in primary and idk why.io

 

[porterpounder]

Looks like beer.

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

It really good i just don't understand way the gravity is so high or why it came out so dark. My grains where 2lb maris 3 pale lme 3lb light dme 1lb cara pils 2lb crystal l 30

 

[rekoob]

Looks about right for 3lbs LME and 2lbs Crystal 30.
It will also clear more which will make it look lighter.
Looks good.

 

[porterpounder]

Pale LME is darker than the name implies. That is the usual color. I wouldn't say it's too dark. It will look a lot lighter in the glass and when it clears out. What is the gravity issue?

 

[brew_ny]

It really good i just don't understand way the gravity is so high or why it came out so dark. My grains where 2lb maris 3 pale lme 3lb light dme 1lb cara pils 2lb crystal l 30

beer looks darker in the carboy / fermenter then in glass because there is more of it

as to why your gravity is high we would more info to and help answer that

what yeast did you use? what temperature did you ferment at? what was OG? what did you think the FG was going be? etc.

if it tastes great to you then it will be great for you

all the best

S_M

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

California ale yeast(white lab) 74°F and i didnt take the og i pitch ot at midnight after i let it sit cool in my ac basement and the fg should be 1.012

 

[dnslater]

Extract brews are often darker than their all-grain counterparts. This is partially due to the fact that the malt extract is "double boiled". It is boiled once to create the extract at the factory, and then again in your brew pot. To counteract this, many brewers add only half of the extract at 60 minutes, and add the rest at 15 so it all doesn't darken as much.

Also, as LME ages, it darkens a bit. Fresh LME will be lighter.

 

[chickypad]

Sorry if I missed it but what is the actual gravity now? Are you measuring with a hydrometer or refractometer, and if the latter did you do the proper corrections? What temp did you do your mini mash at?

 

[brew_ny]

Sorry if I missed it but what is the actual gravity now?

not posted I was hoping for the same thing

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

The gravity now hasnt been taking when i throw it in to the secondary it was 1.051 hydrometer. I let the bag sit till the boiling started

 

[brew_ny]

The gravity now hasnt been taking when i throw it in to the secondary it was 1.051 hydrometer. I let the bag sit till the boiling started

what was the OG suppose to be for recipe? moving it off the yeast cake to the secondary at 1.051

might not have been the best idea

all the best

S_M

 

[chickypad]

Well if you actually mashed the grain you should have been in the 1.070 OG range, hard to tell from your description what you did with the grains. If you pitched the vial without a starter into a relatively high gravity wort like that it could have taken a while to get going, especially depending on the age of the yeast, so it could explain the high gravity at racking. Looks like you've got some krausen in the pic now. I would wait for it to clear then take another gravity. In the future look into pitch rates and don't rack your beer before primary fermentation is complete.

 

[kh54s10]

You will need to provide as much detail as you can about your recipe and processes so far. 1.051 should have been close to the gravity of the recipe BEFORE fermentation. If it was still at 1.051 after, it should not have been transferred to secondary.

74 degrees is quite warm for fermentation. Look into temperature control for your next batch.

What is the current gravity?

The darkness is due to the large amount that you are looking through. In a glass it will be a lot lighter. Extracts, as already noted, tend to be dark compared to all grain brews. This is not a huge concern.

With more details you will get more accurate/useful advice.

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

It was left to cool for.over 4 hours the yeast was full awake and alive when add and it began fermantion within 13 hours but it was a very heavy femantion i almost had a blow by the second day and it was biab the grains where steeped in the water till it hit a rolling boil

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

I nomral bring it to 70 in a ice bath but my brewer help that day was in a rush so i let it sit in my ac basement to cool

 

[kh54s10]

I am at a loss now as to the problem?

If it is the darkness, 1) you are looking though a lot of beer, it will be lighter in a glass. 2) extract brews tend to be darker than all grain and commercial beers.

What gravity are you questioning? The OG of 1.051? Transferred at 1.051? If so that was a mistake. Final gravity at 1.051? If so, - big trouble.

You are confusing terminologies. Grains in a bag then steeped and adding extracts to the boil is extract brewing, BIAB is an all grain process (no malt extracts).

What is your current gravity?

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

Sorry the gravity it was tansfer at was 1.051

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

The color looks fine to me when it was in the testing tube for the gravity and it tasted great

 

[kh54s10]

Sorry the gravity it was tansfer at was 1.051

This sounds like a big problem. How long did it ferment before you transferred? And what is the gravity now?

You may need to get and pitch some new yeast.

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

Also this is very light fermentation compared to what i saw in the primary. I moved it to clear up space for a blonde ale and to try dry hopping.

 

[chickypad]

If you had a rapid active fermentation with blow off then I am questioning that 1.051 reading. I would let the beer clear a bit then check again. It sounds like you did a straight steep of the grains rather than a mash. For a mash you want to hold the grains at a temp in the 150-156 range, usually for at least 30 min, in order to get conversion of the starches to sugars. If they were not at this temp for a period of time then you probably didn't get much in the way of fermentables (you will get some sugars and color from the crystal).

 

[kh54s10]

This is an extract brew that was transferred to secondary either too soon or with an erroneous gravity reading.

There is not much that can be determined until the OP answers the question of what the gravity is NOW.....

Then it can be determined if there really is any problem.

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

the yeast is still at work it seems thou light and i am heading to work i was going to check tonight anyways and i will inform. Hopefully it has hit it mark because i will not be able to make it to my lhbs till Friday the soonest.

 

[jbaysurfer]

what was the OG suppose to be for recipe? moving it off the yeast cake to the secondary at 1.051

might not have been the best idea

all the best

S_M

Secondary strikes again. OP, my advice, don't secondary unless you're doing a fruit beer or yeast harvesting from a beer you want to dryhop. You can clear your beer out every bit as well without it.
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At this point, you wait. I think you fermented it about 6-8 degrees too high, but that's a different story. Still..you wait. Extract tends to get "stuck" or stall out in the 1.020-1.022 range too. The best way to avoid that is to start your fermentation at the low end of the range and ramp it up as fermentation progresses.
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All that matters in the end is if you like it. But don't bottle that beer until it's finished...bottle bombs are dangerous.

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

The fermentation temp was 64 like all my other batchs ?

 

[jbaysurfer]

The fermentation temp was 64 like all my other batchs ?

Not sure that this is a question other than, it has question mark, but if it is, perhaps you can look below for an answer:

California ale yeast(white lab) 74°F and i didnt take the og i pitch ot at midnight after i let it sit cool in my ac basement and the fg should be 1.012

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

The gravity is right at 1.012 now

 

[brew_ny]

The gravity is right at 1.012 now

then you're good to going eh?

 

[IPADrinkerCC]

Lol yea and taste great i just will let everything settle again because i couldn't find my turkey basetir